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@Javi Enjoying the continued new features on UD Mobile. I am using the "command" function for favorites and very much like it. My concern is that it is easy to "butt dial" or "fat finger" a command. My suggestion would be to allow for "2 step" activation where you click once then it says "are you sure" and you click again. Perhaps this is an option when you set it up. I am also a bit confused on using this. To use a command favorite, I set up a regular favorite first, then add the command function. I am a little confused about this in that the original favorite and associated node doesn't seem to necessarily be tied to the ultimate command. Am I missing something?

If your PC has eventghost running on it, you can use an ISY network command to trigger a macro on eventghost and that can run a python script that executes a shutdown. I would suggest having the PC on the same LAN as ISY to avoid any port forwarding/security concerns.

@FarmerGeek It appears that your program doesn't work because the door that is violated is then restored prior to 10 minutes. This re-triggers the program and is now false and the "else" clause is empty. If you moved your "wait" and everything after it to the "else" clause it would probably work as you intend, though I'm not 100% sure on that since I don't fully understand the intent. It is easy to see what is happening by simply watching the status of the program in the program tree in ISY console while you violate and then restore the zone. You will see the program go from inactive (half red or half green . . . in your case half red), to solid green (running then) when the zone is violated. It will stay this way as long as the zone is violated or until 10 minutes expires (at which time it will turn half green if the zone is left violated). As soon as you restore the zone, the solid green (indicating the wait is running) will turn half red (indicating the program just evaluated to false and terminated. If you put the wait etc in the else, the wait won't start until you restore the zone, at which point it will turn solid red for 10 minutes and then half red (unless you violate the zone again prior to 10 minutes at which point the process starts over.

I have found that searching the forum is very difficult. I have on several occasions tried to find my own posts where I knew I answered a question and struggled to find it using the forum's own search function. I often have better luck doing a google search to find something on this forum as opposed to using the forum's own search function.

I agree you wouldn't want them all listed out on the home page. As it is, the home page is kind of long. A folder like structure where you drill down seems logical. Only "nodeservers" title would be listed, then you click on that to see all the individual nodeservers. Not sure why a forum needs to have every title listed on the home page.

Not sure I agree. So what if there are 500 sub topics? That is like the fact that there are >1 billion websites out there. You only visit the ones you want and the rest being there is no skin off your back. The alternative would be a single stream of discussion that bounces around from one thing to another. I suppose you could tag posts, but that relies on the author going to the trouble to do that. I have seen forums that do it that way and before you can hit the "submit" button you have to put at least one tag. I do agree that there needs to be a mechanism to prevent what is happening to this thread. These last posts have zero to do with the topic. Until AI comes along that lives up to the "I", you need an "HI" to actually read everything and keep it in order.

Did the "wait" used to work? Typically, when people say the "wait" isn't working, it is because the program starts over because of a condition being met within the "if".

I get that banner message on and off even though the user/pass is correct and polyglot is connected to ISY. Michel seems to know about it but hasn't spoke to why it happens or when it might be fixed. Now if your Polyglot is not connecting to ISY, then that would be something else.

before restoring them you can do a "show device links table", then hit compare to see if ISY has it the same. If they are the same, then you have orphan links and a simple restore device will just put the same links back on. In that case, you need to factory reset the devices, delete them from ISY, then start over from scratch.

This is probably the deal. They dont sell ISY because they look at ISY as an Insteon device and figure it is worthless without the PLM. Of course ISY with the nodeserver and zwave support is not so much an Insteon device at all anymore.

I assume you took a backup before you transitioned. Consider going back to whatever functioning version you had and restore your backup.

The app is coming along nicely. Suggestions: For programs, when you open it, have the "run" choices at the top. In all likelihood, that is what someone is looking to do, not check the last time it ran or whatever. That would hold true for other items as well. Put the action items at the top. For favorites: Be able to set a favorites icon to execute. Like it turns the light on, or runs "if" of a program directly. So you don't have to navigate through more menus.

Are the Kasa switches any good? Do the feel nice or cheap? Also, can they be linked in scenes or 3 ways? Or would you have to use ISY to create virtual scenes and 3 ways? The nodeserver mentions that Kasa could change the api and break it. That doesn't make sense to me since it also says it runs on the LAN, so it seems like all you have to do is refuse any updates. EDIT: Just read a review. Forget it. They are that crummy push the bottom to toggle type switch.

I have the same issue. How is this resolved?

I don't really know what he did, but whatever he did, it allowed me to use the same email address as a sub account. It would seem that this would only be allowed if the primary account he originally created no longer existed. I base this off the fact than when I tried to add him as a sub account originally, it said the email address was already in use. After he did whatever he did, it let me register the email address as a sub to another account. He also tells me that he can no longer log into the original account.

@bmercier How do I get the request to go away? The person deleted his account and I added him as a sub account to another user. But the request is still there.

That info should be added to the wiki as well as the portal page of isy. Also blocked from asking you to accept the request but rather saying the limit has been reached.

@MrBill I already have 5 accounts connected. Adding a 6th. As far as I know you can connect as many as you want. As you can see, it has accepted the request and is asking for me to approve it.

I am trying to add another account. It shows up as an account requesting to be added. I click on "accept" and get the response "bad request". I tried restarting the admin console to no avail.

Twilight duration by latitude and date. Further from the equator, the more it varies by date.

Another trick if you have varying amounts of twilight at different times of year is to use the "sun position" node server. When the elevation hits a certain number of degrees below the horizon, that could be your trigger to turn on lights.

The weather nodes you can install using polyglot include "solar irradiation". This might be better for you than sunrise/sunset. I assume you are very far North and have very long twilight? I'm looking at the weatherbit node and it has that measurement, but I am pretty sure it isn't the only one. This is also affected by cloud cover. Obviously, patchy clouds will be very inconsistent from your location as compared to the measuring location, but on days with horizon to horizon cloud cover you will get an accurate reading.

centering on the current value is another option, currently it starts at the current value and goes up. I still think centering on 72 with a range of maybe 62 to 82 (or more) would be the best.

When you click to change the set temp, I would suggest having it default to 72 degrees as the center point of the shown range to increase the likelihood that scrolling isn't necessary. Also, I suggest a bit smaller font so more can be displayed at once on the screen, again, to keep the need for scrolling down.

I have this issue randomly many times over the last couple years. I have to unlink and relink ISY from Google Home on my Android phone Google "Home" app. Like others, I find it very frustrating.