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After migrating to IoP, the following program style no longer works. It is supposed to be true only when you click the off paddle when the light is already off. But it is running true when you turn the light off from on. Curiously, does not run true when you click off the second time from 25%. Bath Night Lt. Can - [ID 0076][Parent 0083] If 'Master Bedroom / Master-Bath Cans L' Status is Off And 'Master Bedroom / Master-Bath Cans L' is switched Off And Program 'Dark Outside' is True Then Set 'Master Bedroom / Master-Bath Cans L' On 25% Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')

No, ud mobile does the same thing the http user interface does, it gives an error. You can't do anything with it.

Nope. Gives the same error "requires uuid" Also, doesn't let you enter a uuid

I have exactly the same problem.

Well this is not going well at all. The only thing that went to plan was getting Insteon working. The node servers are not working. PG3 is totally messed up and PG2 only works from PG2 to ISY. If I try to send a command from ISY to the node server, it says "busy" and then times out with an error. PG3 won't accept me changing settings. I try editing the ISY and it says "updateisyparameters invalid". I tried adding it as a second, and that sort of works, but just has all kinds of issues. Nodelink has the same problem. I can't send commands to it, it populates the admin console, but I can't send any commands to my DSC alarm without an error. PG3 images below when I edit current isy UPdate; I have discovered the nodelink is getting commands from ISY, however, ISY doesn't think it is working. ISY says busy and then gives an error, even though the command went through. Other polyglot does not do anything. Also tried restoring backup of pg3, and it doesn't do anything. No nodes, no configuration. The ISY setup page has no uuid and no way to enter a uuid. Only if I add a second ISY can I get a uuid, but the nodes I installed aren't there. UPdate: OK, figured out some of the issues. Upon moving to IoP, I moved polisy's IP address to the IP that used to be for my ISY. This of course moved the node servers as well. ISY however held onto the old IP address for polisy even though polisy from its side logged into ISY, ISY did not update that IP. However PG3 still is dead.

A node server that supports keyboard input through a polisy usb port would totally do the trick. You could use those 40 insteon ir codes or you could program the lirc to recognize, I assume, just about any ir signal. I assume you program lirc then, upon detecting the ir signal of your choice, to produce a key stroke equivalent. If ISY had a node server that recognized keyboard input, then a simple program "if keystroke A" then set lights to x.

You mean to get the 40 IR codes ISY has built in? I have done that if that is what you mean. Though I only use a few of them. I basically have on, off, and 15% for the room light. Nothing else Insteon enabled in there.

@Athlon @xlurkr I have a routine setup in my Harmony 900. I push one button and it does everything. Turns on projector, turns on receiver, turns on (whatever input device I selected), it pauses for 15 seconds, then dims the lights. The only thing I need ISY for is the lights. I am all over having the buttons to watch TV or change the volume. I will often start watching a football game or whatever an hour or so after it starts and zoom through the commercials. Pretty much only a button thing. Changing the volume is also not very voice command oriented. You have to do it in stepwise fashion with voice unless your receiver is capable of going direct to a volume level by some API (mine is not). And I get to leave my hand wherever since it is all rf. And at the end, 1 button and it shuts everything down and brightens the lights. I can push a button way faster than I can say a word and it never mis-understands me or does that swirly thing for 5 seconds before responding. Plus, the remote just has a comfortable feel in my hand.

Yes, that looks like it would work. But, I think I already have everything I need in my old 99i. I only need this for my theater room to let the handheld IR from my Harmony 900 control the lights in the room. Like 3 commands at most. The GC-IRE looks like it would be overkill. Good to know it exists, though. What I don't understand is all the people going to these touch screen devices (phones). What a terrible way to control things. You have to look at the screen, you usually have to push a button to turn on the screen first, and if you accidentally brush your finger on the wrong spot it starts doing the wrong thing. Regular remotes are so nice, especially the ones that use rf to a base station so you can hold the thing in your hand under a blanket or pointed completely the wrong way or whatever. No look, you can feel the button once you get to know the remote.

maybe I can use my old 99i as an ir receiver. Have the ir trigger a network command to ISYoP. Knew I kept it for a reason.

The node server has no instructions for anything but output.

My understanding of ITach IP2IR is that the IR receiver on the unit only functions as a mechanism to learn IR signals, not to generate a specific action based on a specific IR input.

@JTsao Opposite direction. I actually have that and am using it, but that is for ISY to send IR (via Itach transmitter), I need ISY to receive IR. I have a Harmony Elite but also have a Harmony 900. The 900 does not have a network connection so the Harmony node doesn't work as with the Elite. And now Logitech doesn't make them anymore. I could probably get another Elite used, but man, so much work. It would be so much easier if there were an IR receiver for IoP.

I am considering moving ISY to Polisy, but I am using the IR receiver on the 994i unit and don't see that Polisy has any option to receive IR. Ideas?

Success. I moved polisy to the other vlan, it found Roomba, I moved Polisy back to the secure vlan and it was able to maintain connection. Thanks.

With ISY, you don't need to know the Insteon address. It has a discover mode. You just click on the auto discover button on the ISY menu, and then press and hold the discover button on each device. You can do a whole bunch at once. I would start by going through every insteon device in your house and pull the tab out, then press in and hold until the long beep quits. This factory resets. After that, put ISY in discover mode and press the little button on each device and in a second or two ISY will discover it. Label the device in the ISY app. Before you start, I would create a plan for how you will name things and create a folder tree. Life is much easier later on. I like to add an "L" to the end of the name of every device that manages the actual load. Once all of your devices are part of Insteon, then start creating your scenes. You will find that ISY allows the creation of extremely complex scenes, if you like. It can get confusing because there are so many options. But in the end, you will appreciate it. Understand that each scene has one or more controller devices. A device can control only one scene, but respond to as many as you like. Each device will also have local settings. Meaning that when you push that device's switch paddle, the local settings are what happens, any scene to which it is a responder or controller is irrelevant, the local settings is what that device does when you control it directly (locally). Then there are the settings when the device is the responder to a scene. They can be the same or different as the local settings. Lets take an example, you have a 3 way. Each device is set as a controller to the scene. You want all 3 switches to do the same thing. Within the scene, you set each device to respond as you like (all the same). You then need to set each device independently to do the same thing when locally controlled. The beauty of this is that it doesn't have to be that way. You could instead make something different happen when you touch each of the three switches. A single scene with three controllers could do different things when using each of the 3 switches, if you like. Anyway, in short, factory reset, add devices to ISY, and have a clear plan of organizing them before you start.

The router wouldn't have any issues. I have set it to allow com between polisy and roomba bridging the two vlans. The only question is if the node server will try to re-discover roomba when (if) it senses that its subnet has changed after I return it to the more secure vlan.

Would it keep the ip address if I moved polisy to the Roomba subnet and then back again?

I would install a proper security system based smoke detector which can then easily be bridged for "informational purposes only" to your ISY via lots of methods. DSC alarm panels are quite inexpensive and UL listed and all. The smoke detectors themselves will likely cost far more than the alarm panel depending on the quantity. Linking DSC to ISY can be done with polyglot and an IP adapter for the DSC panel. If you already have a standard smoke alarm system that is just a local, interconnected, siren only type system, often they do have models with relays that can bridge to an Insteon, Zwave, or other IP based contact closure device that will link to ISY.

@bpwwer I have an i7. I keep all of my iot stuff on a different subnet that is firewalled from my important stuff. When needed, I open a path between two devices, which I have done between polyisy and roomba. I had the pg2 roomba node working, except it really doesn't work on the i7 very well at all. I also have polyisy talking to my blue iris server using the same firewall hole technique . . . so I am confident there is no firewall problem. I was hoping to use your pg3 node which appears to be expressly made for i7, amongst others. But the autodiscover does not seem to be looking across subnets, the node server log lists it as giving up after several tries and not discovering. Anyway I can tell it where to look or set the ip address manually? Thanks.

OK, getting them now. Sent a note to support.

"long time". Not sure what that means. But I am now at 3 hours.

I don't know. Not getting any email. Checked spam and all. my login name is my email address. Searched my email for that ircodes@. .. email and I see they sent me one 5 years ago. So I must have been playing with it back then. but not working now.

Not that I need any right now since I already manually learned them all on my own, but how does the website work? I already had a user/pass with them. I click to get it, it says "sent" . . . sent where? I didn't get anything in my email, no download, where? And as it turns out, the primary device I use GC for is not in the database. So I'm copying them from where I figured them out into the format GC wants. I am seeing that you did it this way because I assume it is how they come formatted from GC.

Deleted ISY from PG3 and re-added. This was my very first installation of PG3, so I had no nodes installed to screw up by doing that.