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Hope someone has done this before. I have 10 Tags, which during the winter the information is needed for some issues I have with freezing in various locations. I don't need that information now that the weather is warmer. Five of the tags are still needed to provide information on a 15 minute basis. If I disassociate 5 of the tags from the web interface, will Polyglot on the Pi still assume there are 10 Tags and continue to bring data down from the website. With a disassociation I am not sure what the web application will do. The reason for my question; I am hoping I don't need to delete the Tag Node Server and add it back. If I have to do that, all of my ISY programs will be impacted. Thanks in advance if anyone has experience doing this

Dan. Very nice. I just noticed your post. Thanks for the pictures of the enclosure. That is something I want to add once I am finished In the mean time I was able to put together a left over Pi and a gang of 4 relays. My biggest hurdle was overcoming the relays closing when the Pi started or rebooted. I solved the issue by using GPIO Pins that are HIGH on startup. I am designing a PCB to take a wall wart at 9 volts and convert to 5 volt DC for an external power supply to energize the relays. I am also adding LED indicators for each valve as it operates i wanted to use my ISY as the source for determing when to irrigate since all my rainfall data was accumulated in the ISY from a weather station .2 miles away. Everything is on a breadboard as I am awaiting the parts from Mouser and Amazon. i have an ESP in my box but have not taken the time to learn how to use it Maybe next winter thanks again

I am wondering if there is a way to see Tag and OpenWeatherMap values using the ISY Portal. If so, can you direct me I have not been successful in seeing them Thank you

Thanks Mark. I am taking a look at what you suggested. Also a google search has left me with some ideas and more questions. Been 50 years since I had a transistor course. Thanks again

Hoping I am not showing my lack of knowledge in asking this question. Over the past 5 years I am now on my third irrigation controller. I was wondering if anyone has wired up a Pi to activate a relay to control an irrigation valve. Using a request command, I can get a value from the ISY to indicate whether I need to irrigate. So my ISY logic would still be useful. Just wonder if anyone has considered or actually put in place this alternative. Thank you

Thank you Mr Bill. Works perfectly and simplifies things. Much appreciate your help.

Just have to ask this question since I cannot find a way to save a value such as a Weather Value from a Weather node server to a variable in Version 5. I believe I saw some posts back a few years that indicated that with Version 5 we would be able to do that. At the time, the person was talking about the Climate Module and wanted to save accumulated rain to a variable for irrigation purposes. Just curious if this ability is part of Version 5 and I just don't know how to do it or if that is something that is not included. I have a work around so it is not critical, more curiosity than anything. If this can be done, I would appreciate anyone pointing me in the right direction. Thanks to all.

I did check the logs and I do have an entry at the time of the motion. One minute later it goes to off. I was wondering about the air currents. I have uncovered windows and a furnace vent on the floor fairly close to the detector. I am going to close the blind next to the detector and see if that makes a difference. Tomorrow I am also going to do a factory reset Very much appreciate your help

Duh. I should have thought about a factory reset the first thing. Thanks for jogging this old brain. Will do that today

Has anyone else has had this experience with the new insteon motion detectors. Both detectors are on USB power. About once a month, during the night, I get a false motion detection. When motion occurs, a light is turned on in our bedroom. Since there are only two of us in the house, no pets, nor anything else moving, I am at a loss as to why it is happening. One of the motion detectors is on the second floor and the other is in the kitchen. The one on the second floor was actually covered at the time of the false motion. Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this occurring with the new motion detectors. Thanks

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My SD card is getting old and I am wondering if I made an image of my SD card using Win32Disc would be a good precaution. Has anyone taken this approach. I realize that the Wiki has instructions to replace a card but wondering if creating an image would be better. I realize I may have to download a new release if that was different and my latest backup Any thoughts would be appreciated Thank You

Thanks guys. I guess I never understood the order of evaluation. Thanks for pointing that out. I guess you can always teach an old dog new tricks. Sometimes it just takes awhile. Appreciate your quick responses.

Gentlemen I am totally confused. I changed my program to be as follows: My garage temperature did not fall below 55 degrees during the night but the "Then Logic" ran every hour from 6 PM to 5 AM. Two things seem to defy logic. The "Then" should not have run since the Tag temperature was above 32 degrees and the switch counter (an integer) should have limited the number of times the "Then Logic" should have run to 7 times since the switch counter starts out at 0 even though the check was not working on the Tag Temperature. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks everyone for providing your comments. I need to digest them but I think I get it. I was trying to do something fancy but I think I need to just add some time statements in my If Statement which at the same time I check the garage temperature. All this to make sure my wife's coke does not freeze in the winter?. I may still mess with this a little more to get a better understanding of these statements. I just bought a bunch of Tags and added them to my system. I did buy them so Jimbo gets some credit toward his purchases. I do appreciate your help.

I have a program that combines two different time conditions in my If Statement. However, the program indicates it runs but the then statement is not executed. Just wondering if what I am trying to do is allowed as a programing statement in the ISY. I can do a work around so this is not critical but I want to satisfy my curiosity. Here is my program. Since my garage is not yet at a freezing temperature, I am using another temperature to test the program. My Tag values are updated every 15 minutes. The variable $i_Ctl_Garage_Freeze_Switch <= 6, has a value of 0. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Larryllix i probably need to look at that. Thanks for the info. I really don't want to add any hardware. I probably will never own a Tesla even though I know who he was?

garybixler Took me a while to understand what you were saying about two way communication. But my brain finally figured it out. I was using a old post where someone was getting data from the old climate module and storing in a variable. I received an email this morning for 20% off of a Polisy. Going to look into that. Thanks again for your time and helping me with this.

Garybixler i am doing that now with a python script but I am looking to see if I could do it with the Resource Module. thanks again i should mention that I found my current approach with python is not as reliable as I would like

Garybixler unfortunartely I don't have a Polisy. I have an RPI bringing in my Tag data. I will see if I can follow your structure and do it with the Tag Node server thank you

Hoping someone can help with this rest command. I am using v5.0.16 and would like to copy a Tag Temperature to an integer variable in the ISY. Shown below is Rest Screen but it does not work. When testing, I get a Resource Response of N/A and a message that it failed. Must be something simple that I am missing. The variable I am using has a precision of 1. The host is the IP of my ISY. The Tag Address in the Path is used in an email, (I did a copy to make sure no error in typing) so I know it is correct. Thanks in advance for your help.

Jimbo Thanks for fixing this. My program now works comparing the voltage to a variable with a three precision and also comparing to a value in the drop down option. Thanks again.

Thanks to everyone for your thoughts. Jimbo, please don't go through a lot of work for me. Unless this is something others want, I can just email the voltages every morning and scan for any battery issues. Now that I know it is not something I am doing wrong, I can move on from here. Thanks for everything you have done.

larryllix The program shown is my little test case. I also tried the program with an else statement to verify it was running. At an earlier time, the program ran the else when it should have run the Then. Could the value of the voltage in the ISY be treated as an alpha numeric and is that why the program IF statement believes it is not True. I have used the Tag values for Temperature in the ISY and the IF statements work fine

I have created a variable in the ISY and I am using that variable to compare to the voltage level shown for the Wireless Tags. Here is my program. The value for the Tag Battery Voltage in the ISY is 2.753 and the value of the variable - $i_Env_Tag_Voltage_Min_Level is 2.800 volts. The Precision is set for three decimals. The program does run but the If statement ends up being False. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks