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See the first post above.

Hi Chris, Thanks for the reply. As I understand how programs work, I think it was a program with some incomplete logic. I had a program set to check the back door lock at 1:00 AM (IF time is 1:00 AM) and THEN lock it if it wasn't already. But the ELSE was to run a second program that said IF the front door is unlocked, lock it. So my thinking is that unlocking the front door caused the ISY to check the back door lock program, find the IF false because it wasn't 1:00 AM, then run the ELSE, which had no condition for locking the front other than that it was unlocked. Is that how it works? By connecting the lock directly to the ISY, I mean that I put the lock in pairing mode and paired it to ISY directly even though it was already paired to the ST hub. What I did was first disconnect the ST hub, then exclude the lock from ISY, then include it to ISY. Both ISY and ST hub can now control it, so all is well. I noticed the option to make the ISY a secondary controller, but when I put it in the mode to look for a primary, it doesn't seem to find the ST hub whether I put the ST in add device mode or not. At this point it's mostly a pedantic exercise because everything is working now.

Benefits of ST: Easy access to info on status of locks and lights from Android and iOS apps. Simple setup. Support for Zigbee as well as Zwave. Thus greater selection of devices. Simpler and slightly more sophisticated programming (nested IFs, for example), although it's all cloud-based.

Hi all, I had set up a SmartThings Hub and successfully added it to an ISY994iZ installation, but recently one of my 2 Schlage Connect locks started acting strangely: It would lock within seconds of being unlocked. Autolock was off, and the locking was much too fast for the autolock feature anyway. So after some troubleshooting I determined that it only happened when the SmartThings hub and the ISY994iZ were both running, but not when I disconnected the ISY994iZ. Interestingly, I also have a second Schlage lock that always works correctly from both hubs. What I'd like is for the SmartThings Hub to be the primary and the ISY to be secondary controller. What I did: 1. Added everything directly to ST. 2. Put ISY in Receive (Learn) mode 3. Added ISY to ST and did "Repair Links". Should this work? I ask because the wonky lock still won't show up on the ISY even though the ST hub knows about and will control it. Maybe I need to exclude the lock from the ISY with the ST hub disconnected? I also tried connecting the lock directly to the ISY, but that doesn't work.