rweil1 wrote:now the garbage X10 signals started coming in. I have no X10. I tried what was suggested and turned off every device one at a time and just when I thought I found the failed device because the J10 status requests stopped, If I would use any Insteon device the j10 status would start again.
My conclusion is that the new 2413 is either bad or there is a firmware bug. My old one is version 9.13 and the new one has a much higher version, sorry cant remember what version. I’m going to reach out to Smarthome and try to figure something out.
I wish there was a workaround for having the 2413 installed on my UPS system where the Mac is but I have tried and it just doesn’t work, so it remains on an outlet that looses power.
This sounds more like your old 2413 has died on X10, and that something is causing power line interference which is showing up as X10 traffic on your new 2413U. Since the new unit is able to see the X10 traffic, it's thinking that garbage is real traffic. (One complaint with the 2413U's is that X10 functionality is known to die after a year or two, etc).
That's what effectively was happening with my 3d printer, it's power line interference was being seen as X10 traffic and was killing my 2413U since it couldn't keep up.
If you wish to troubleshoot, here's my suggestion.
From what I can tell a Filterlinc is effectively an ferrite choke with some extra active circuitry. In my experimentation (in solving this problem for my 3d printer), I found a ferrite choke resolved the issue... For example, https://amzn.to/2OpnS17. And a variety pack of Ferrite Chokes is $12, vs $39-50 for a single filterlinc, the Ferrite Chokes are faster, easier, and didn't have a 2/3rd DOA rate as the filterlincs I ordered did.
So the issue really is more in finding out what's causing the interference, and then slapping a ferrite choke (or two) on it, and see if that did resolve the issue.
Cheap computer power supplies are the most likely candidate (eg, my 3d printer was less than $200 USD, it definitely has a cheap power supply). But anything that has a motor, compressor or a switching power supply is a possibility.
Unplugging them temporarily and seeing if the X10 traffic disappears is the easiest way to see if they are the culprit. Simply turning them off may still leave the power supply running, just not providing a full load (eg TV's are in sleep mode, and not really turned off these days).