Diesel

Thanks for taking the time to share your detailed experience with the update on Polisy. I was just about to press that upgrade button (in AC) on my Polisy when I read your post. I have no time to resurrect the dead this week so I'm going to wait for Michel to work out the upgrade bugs before I hit that upgrade button.

Hi Lee, Thanks for your help. I've created the variable and related program, and updated the email notif program as you outlined. When trying to rename the variable from Int_1 to something meaningful, it always seems to reset back to Int_1? I'm surprised that there's no simpler (or inherent) way to throttle or limit the number/interval of emails sent when motion is detected? For example: You have a motion sensor in the back yard and want to receive an email notification when there's movement, so you can have a look on your cameras to see what's going on. If the gardner shows up, your inbox gets hammered every second while cuts the grass!

Hi Michel, I just want to receive an email notification as soon as the motion sensor is triggered, but only once and then not again for X minutes, otherwise the notifications flood my inbox. I don't want the system to wait 15mins after sensing motion to notify me. For example, the sensor will detect motion when the Gardner is cutting the grass, but currently I would receive 35 emails a minute. Just once would be fine, and then if motion continues 15 or 30mins later, it can send another notification again. How do I achieve this? Thanks for your help.

Hi all, Need some help with a new 2420M ver2.0 Motion Sensor and email notification. 2420M is installed outside for night time perimeter security. All seems to work triggering the lights I've specified in the program. Next objective was to send myself an email notification when it sensed motion. So I added the program below and it works, but how do I get it to send just 1 email instead of 15-20 of them? If Control 'Outside / Outside:Motion-Sensor' is switched On Then Send Notification to 'Me' content 'Outside Rear Motion Detected' Wait 15 minutes Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') It seems like it sends an email each time the sensor detects motion, even a few seconds apart which hammers my inbox. I had hoped adding the 'Wait 15 mins' would help, but no luck. What am I missing?

Thanks for the ideas guys. The date range was particularly helpful.

Hi all, I think understand the basic concept of a Vacation/Away Mode, but could use some help establishing the best way to use it. Objective is for certain additional security lights to come on at sunset when we're away and turn off early am as well as to turn off some other lights like bedroom lamps that we normally turn off ourselves when we go to bed when we're home. Could you guys give me some examples of how you use the Vacation/Away folder and if its possible to manually "activate" this mode/programs in that folder to not have to rely only on a kpd button status. I'm concerned that if we're away for some days and the power should go out, I presume this kpd button will just reset itself to off. Maybe I'm wrong tho. Thanks for the help.

That worked ! Thanks Mike Although I needed to add a wait in there too, otherwise the kpl light turned off even if the scene it controlled was active. I guess it needed more time to evaluate if each of the devices met that condition. Now the program looks like this; If Status 'WatchTV (E)' is not Off And Status 'FamilyRm-LeftLamp' is not On Or Status 'FamilyRm-TvConsole' is not On Or Status 'FamilyRm-RightLamp' is not On Then Wait 1 second Set Scene 'WatchTVStatus' Off Else - No Actions -

Ok so I did the following; 1. Created a scene called WatchTVStatus and added only KPL (E) as a responder. 2. Created a program called WatchTVStatus If Status 'WatchTV (E)' is not Off And Status 'FamilyRm-LeftLamp' is not On And Status 'FamilyRm-TvConsole' is not On And Status 'FamilyRm-RightLamp' is not On Then Set Scene 'WatchTVStatus' Off Else - No Actions - Since On= 100%, when I press WatchMovie(F) which reduces all of those lights to 40%, the above program should trigger Status of (E) to change to Off. For some reason it doesn't work

Ahh wait I think that's what I was missing. Do you mean to say I need to create a scene with only that specific KPL (E) button in it ? For example create a scene called WatchTVStatus and add KPL button (E) as a responder to it ?

Hi Mike, thanks. I've read that thread 3 times and I still can't wrap my head around it. At least not yet. When I created a program to check status on the devices in WatchTV scene so if they were at 40% & 50% (depending on the device) it would mean that WatchMovie was true and should turn off WatchTV. But all that did was turn off all the lights in the scene instead.Doh ! By the way, in the notes section of each device (right click) there's a checkbox for Is Load. What does this checkbox do ?

Still very new to the ISY99ir/Pro (thanks Michel it's great!) and need your help understanding how to get some things accomplished. I've spent the week-end installing about 30 SWL & 5 KPL's. In our family room we have various table lamps, spots and lights in our entertainment center. So I've setup 2 specific scenes all setup thru the ISY. Scene: WatchTV Table lamps are on 100% TV console light is on 100% Overhead spots are off Scene: Watch Movie Table lamps at 40% TV console light 50% Overhead spots off. Both scenes work exactly as expected. Now to program them onto the 8 button KPL in the same room. Button E is added as a controller to WatchTV. Button F is added as a controller to WatchMovie Problem: If WatchTV (E) is pressed on and later we want to watch a movie when pressing WatchMovie (F), button (E)WatchTV remains lit. The same problem in reverse going from WatchMovie to WatchTV scenes. I tried adding button (E) to the WatchMovie (F) scene, but that didn't work as expected. What am I missing. I'm sure this is really simple stuff for some of your experts, but I'm stumped. Thanks