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Pentrair_beta is now posted to non-production store. Adds Intellicenter functionality. Pentair has two completely different api's that both reside on the same server/login structure, so regardless of whether you have intellicenter or just direct connect of pump/lights, this plugin, username/password setup works. The plugin self-discovers the correct api to use based on how your account in pentair was configured.

@macjeff The possibility is that you are using a different account than your stuff is registered to. Logging out of your account on your phone app and then logging back in manually entering the same username and password that you used in the plugin will test that. The second is maybe more likely and that is you are using a different system that runs everything behind intellicenter. I really don't know the details on how pentair has evolved their system. Currently, I believe they have gone to a system where the devices all connect directly to the cloud, but you may be on a system that everything connects through intellicenter. My pump and my colorsync both have their own wifi and both log directly into Pentair server. Pentair says an IntelliCenter account should now be accessible through the Pentair Pool/Home app after migration, using the IntelliCenter account credentials. Have you done a migration? This is how my app looks on my phone where it all connects directly to the pentair pool app. Are you using this same app or a different one? This plugin may just not work using that different system. When you login, 1) are you using this app, and 2) does it list all your items as primary items or does it list your intellicenter with other things under it?

Please use this thread to ask any questions or comment on my plugin. This is my first plugin, but I think I got it bug free. The Levolor plugin connects directly the Levolor InMotion Hub. You will need to install the InMotion app on your phone and set up your blinds using that if not already done. From the app, if you tap the "about" page 5 times it will report the api key for your hub. You will need this key, plus the IP address of the hub. You should set your router to reserve that IP so it is always the same. From there, install the plugin and set the two parameters (ip address and api key). The plugin should immediately connect to the hub and query it for any blinds you have setup in it. This should take just a few seconds. If you still don't see any number next to the "nodes" field on the plugin, refresh the web page. You will get x+1 nodes where x is the number of blinds you have. Restart your admin console. You should see a new node on your main tree called "Levolor Controller". Sub nodes will exist for each blind you have. Controls include to directly set it to a percent closed (0% is open, 100% is closed) or you can execute an open, close, or stop command. This is the same as the InMotion app. I only have Levolor blinds and only created the plugin for blinds. Basically, open, close, stop, and percent. Other features like tilt exist that I can't test. Perhaps if someone has those types of blinds and wants to work with me, I can update the plugin. The plugin is limited by the communication between the hub and the blinds themselves. In my experience, sometimes the hub isn't accurate. Both the InMotion app and ISY will give you information that is not correct at times. In addition, the app and plugin will both be a bit delayed according to polling between the hub and the blinds and between app/plugin polling of the hub. I have found that ISY and the app both update status nearly simultaneous, so mostly it is a blinds/hub delay. This is a property of the InMotion setup and nothing in the plugin can change that. Regardless of the plugin/app status reporting, executing commands has had 100% success in all my testing. I have the response time to be less than a second consistently.

You can only do this by deleting the old plugin first then the slot opens to re-install. I won't bet my life on this next statement, but, I am pretty sure that if you delete a plugin and then re-install the same plugin in the same slot, any programs that reference any of those nodes will re-populate. When you install the plugin back in, all of the nodes should get the exact same id's and all the programs should put them back in. What won't re-populate is any customization you did on the main page of the admin console. In other words, any folders you put stuff in or any re-naming you did. I would confirm with @Michel Kohanim on this. EDIT: You might also look at the new eisy-ui beta plugin section. It might make things a bit more stream lined for you.

I updated. The update proceeded without issue and didn't take too long, maybe 15 minutes. I got a message requesting a reboot and I went ahead and did that. The system booted up and I was able to access both eisy ui and the admin console. @Javi Bug? I tried to create a random test program in Eisy, but it failed. I selected an insteon on/off module status as the if and an insteon dimmer as the then clause. Eisy UI fails to create the if statement. I got the drop downs and set the parameters and it gives an invalid error after saving. It shows up in the admin console with a yellow icon. I then created the same if clause in the admin console, and it did work. This is my one and only attempt at creating a program in eisy ui. Here is a screenshot. The second line of the if clause is what I created in the admin console. The first was the same line created in eisy-ui which reverted to this error. Before I hit save. The line after the "and" is what I just created in eisy ui. Then after I hit save

So the backup is stored on your server? And this happens whether you log in or not?

The backup files are tiny. Mine are only a few hundred k and I have a pretty loaded up system. So the data transfer from ISY to your phone should take a split second and the space consumed negligible.

Yeah, a message when you open the admin console that tells you how long since the last backup and a link to "backup now" would be another way. Probably easier to implement than UD mobile since currently UD mobile has no backup isy function, just backup your ud mobile. But since some people may go a really long time without opening the admin console but may open UD mobile daily, more likely to get a backup to a storage location that you are sure to have handy. I end up accessing my admin console from a number of computers and have my backups all scattered about and then losing track of where the most recent one is when you need it might be an issue. But certainly better than having no backup or only ancient ones.

Backing up ISY is one of those things we all know we need to do but tend to neglect. It occurred to me that perhaps UD mobile could have a feature that backs up your ISY to your phone's storage. Perhaps each time you launch UD mobile, it looks for your latest backup and if it is older than some period of time (that you can set), then it runs a backup. Now you have an "offsite" backup of your ISY configuration immune to any hardware failure on the Eisy itself.

I agree. Now that eisy is a system with lots of memory and resources, having it run backups at some interval of your choice and store it internally would be nice. Of course you should still export backups from time to time in case the eisy suffers a catastrophic failure. But certainly it protects you from yourself . . . making mistakes and then not remembering how to get back to where you started. Backups are super tiny. Another option would be to have that feature in UD mobile. It could save to your phone and then the backup is securely on a different physical machine.

You can backup your current eisy config before you restore an old one. You can always reverse that and restore back to your current config that you just saved. But if everything works fine with a restore point prior to the power failure, then you know the eisy got messed up. Although since you deleted and re-added some devices those might not align with your old backup. Also, as mentioned, you can export programs and then import them to the restore. You can also take screens shots of your programs pages for reference. If you are talking about a dozen programs or something it wouldn't be pretty easy. If you are talking about 100 programs it would be more tedious.

my water company told me to buy a flume a few years back. Then a couple years later they came through and replaced meters with one that flume doesn't read. Very annoyed. They actually left the old meter, so my plan ultimately when I have the time is to put the old meter back in after their meter so I can use my flume again. We really liked the flume a lot. The water co app is just terrible. It tells you about potential leaks like a day after it happens. All of these leaks they have warned us about aren't leaks, but if they were, it would have been far too late for their warning to have done any good. Anyway, Flume worked great with ISY until about a year ago when I had to uninstall the flume.

Whatever the issue was, it seems to have been fixed. I received an email today at 9:04am and did a test and it worked as well. @Geddy I am using a gmail account on a different isy and it works great. But on this one I didn't see the point since it was so easy to just click the default. I haven't had issues with it and I have been using it for over a decade. So who knows. I'm sure some server somewhere got messed up and needed to be reset.

I have stopped receiving emails as of early this morning from my ISY set to default mail server. Hitting the "test" button in the email section of the admin console gives me an smtp error. The last email I received at 4:32am today. I should have received quite a few since then. I hadn't touched the system between than and now, so no changes I made could have done anything.

I believe it is possible to set Insteon switches to not blink the green/red leds for comm status. As I understand you, for whatever reason, the switches think they are failing when they aren't. Ideally, you would solve the root problem. But if they all work and you can't figure it out, you could just shut off that feature. I believe if you go into options on the device in the admin console, you can't click "no led".