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Happy to help! Using the portal and occupancy nodes on V5.xx makes for a simpler setup. Otherwise the functionality is mostly the same with one exception that it makes it a little harder to correct for missed fence transitions when using the nodes vs variables. -Xathros

Hi Michel, Yep! I switched over to using portal nodes for my geofence applications a while back. I love the simplicity and using the portal for all of my external interfaces keeps my ISY happily behind the firewall and secure. Still, the weak link appears to be the phone and geofence tracking in iOS. I often have a node stuck true because I had weak cell service when I exited the fence or was transitioning between WiFi and LTE or whatever. When I was using state vars to track my fences, I was able to rest all other locations when entering/leaving a fence so if one of the others was previously missed it could be updated. With the nodes, I have no way to reset a locations status without leaving/re-entering or entering/leaving that nodes fence again. It would be nice if we could set the true/false status of the node under program control as a workaround but that seems to go against the ISY's design philosophy I think. I suppose I could write some network resources to call the other nodes in/out URL's at the portal from the ISY but this just seems silly. Your thoughts on this are most welcome. -Xathros

Yes. The ISY has a very powerful and compete RESTFUL interface among other methods of connectivity. Full documentation can be found at: Full Web Services/REST SDK, Java SDK, and Documentation with Open Source UDAjax for the currently released firmware version. Hope this helps. -Xathros

That method gives you a fixed 5 minute window to get out of the geofence before chancing disabling the alarm. There is the possibility that the phone/isy will miss the fence exit as well. Here is what I do for some of my proximity based features: Define 2 fences: Home (a small radius around the house), Neighborhood (a larger radius centered on the house but extending out maybe 250 yds) Define an integer variable as a flag: i.ArrivedHome This gets set to 1 when you enter your home fence area and 0 when you exit the larger neighborhood fence area. I do this mostly due to my phone drifting in/out of the smaller area and defined the larger area to exceed the nominal drift by a margin. Then have your program take the var into account: If $sPaul.Is.Home is 1 and $i.ArrivedHome is 0 Then Disarm $i.ArrivedHome = 1 Here is the prog to manage the integer var: If $sNeighborhoodFence is 0 Then $i.ArrivedHome = 0 This way, you have to leave the larger neighborhood fence then come home again before it will auto disarm. There is still the possibility that it will miss fence crossings but in this scenario it fails secure rather than insecure. Hope this helps. -Xathros

I can confirm the same problem from Vermont. -Xathros

I see the ISY can Enter/Exit Vacation mode via the 469's options but there appears to be no way to access the options from within an ISY program. Maybe this is something that could be added down the road, or there may be a way to do it through parameter setting from within a program. Someone with more understanding of the parameters will need to chime in on that aspect. -Xathros

There are a number of apps available that will do GeoFencing based on your phone's GPS location. This thread is referring to one called Locative. Mobilinc also provides GeoFencing capabilities along with several other apps. Locative is free to use and can post to the ISY's rest interface or via the UDI portal if you subscribe to that. Hope this helps. -Xathros

Same here. I ended up having the ISY send a pushover notification to me. Better this way as now I get confirmation that the ISY received the boundary crossing. -Xathros

I am also using the BlueStation 100's and can echo elvisimprsntr's experience with ranging. I have noticed recently that iOS appears to be making use of my household beacons to provide app recommendations based on where I am in the house and my past app usage in several locations. -Xathros

About the same for me. False triggers are way more frequent than they used to be both on those called "Echo" and the one I call "Alexa" Recognition accuracy has gone way down hill. Last night, I had to rename my "gym" to "workout room" because Echo didn't know how to turn on Jam, Jan, Jen or Gin... Oddly enough, the same echo could turn off the Gym without fail. Trying to turn on the lights in my garage, called "bay one" and "bay two", now results in music being played instead of my lights coming on. So, yeah.... Not just you. -Xathros

Well, most of us prefer the opposite but you can work with it either way. My programs were designed for the opposite. You would need to change the reed switch to a normally open type if you wanted to change that behavior. My question though was more to determine if you were properly receiving status updates from the IOLinc and from your reply it appears that you are. What do you have on the ML dashboard for operating the door? Program #1 or the IOLinc relay device? Your Program #2 in the quote above is written for use with a normally open sensor switch which from your description is not what you have. I assume you have since modified that program to match your sensor states. -Xathros

The second program quoted should be dealing with the status regardless of how the door is operated. I have had occasions where ML has taken a longer time than expected to process program statuses and properly display them but usually it will display no status at all until it completes it's processing. Does you IOLinc sensor status properly update in the Admin console when you open and close your door? What ISY Firmware are you running? There have been some status update issues with IOLincs in the 5.X branch. -Xathros

Hi Rob Hi Rob, I don't think it matters if you have a Gen1 or newer smart energy switch. As long as you have one and it reports to the ISY then you can do what you are wanting to do as follows: First, Find out what the node name is and dump the node XML to get the info you need about the location of the data. Mine is "ZW003_143" as seen below it's title in this screenshot: Then I used Firefox to get the node dump by entering: http://192.168.168.20/rest/nodes/ZW003_143 and was prompted for my ISY user/pass then the following was returned: My Sensor has the current wattage in the Status (.ST) field with the kWh in the TPW field. I happened to be monitoring voltage in my setup so the following resource is referencing the CV field but you can modify to grab ST or TPW as fits your requirement. This resource is grabbing the value from the sensor and using the rest interface to place that value into my integer variable #8. You could just as easily use a state variable instead. NOTE: the .raw following the field identifier in the substitution variable is important. Without the .raw, the value returned will be formatted and may include the letters "Volts" or "kWh". You only want the value for this and the .raw forces it to drop the formatting and return a clean value. Next you will need a program to run the resource: VoltageMonitor - [ID 0014][Parent 0003][Not Enabled][Run At Startup] If From 12:00:00AM To 11:59:50PM (same day) Then Repeat Every 10 seconds Set 'ZW 003 Energy Meter' Query Wait 5 seconds Resource 'OfficeLineVoltageMonitor' Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') As Michel pointed out above, you can get direct access to these values in programs in 5.0.4 and later without the need to place into a var first. And then it is as simple as: VoltageMonitor Direct - [ID 0025][Parent 0003] If 'ZW 003 Energy Meter' Current Voltage is not '$OfficeLineVoltage Volts' Then $OfficeLineVoltage = 'ZW 003 Energy Meter' Current Voltage Volts Do whatever... Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') Hope this helps. -Xathros

All of what you want can be accomplished using one of these: https://www.amazon.com/Aeon-Labs-Aeotec-Z-Wave-Switch/dp/B00VQISOCG/ref=sr_1_sc_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1471979206&sr=8-2-spell&keywords=aotec+smart+energy+switch I do this for both my Windows AC and my Pellet Stove to monitor function and disable either when appropriate. -Xathros

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The timer program will only turn the lights on at the start of the window. If you turn them off after sunset-15, they'll stay off until sunset-15 tomorrow night. The override program watches for both on and off commands from the switch. On triggers the then section disabling the timer program. Off triggers the else and re-enabled the timer program. It does not run the timer however. Only trigger for the timer is sunset-15. -Xathros Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

No. Several reasons, Status changes during run causing re-evaluation, Control anded etc. I would not worry about the current status of the light. Does it matter if it was off to begin with? If it's already On, turning it on does no harm right? If you are trying to avoid it going off via program when it was turned on manually, there is a different approach that involves another program to enable/disable the time based program: Timer program: Pendants Timer - If Time is Sunset - 15 minutes Then Set 'Kitchen / Kitchen Pendants' On Wait 2 hours Set 'Kitchen / Kitchen Pendants' Off Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') Then the Override program: Pendants Override- If Control 'Kitchen / Kitchen Pendants' is switched On And Control 'Kitchen / Kitchen Pendants' is not switched Off Then Disable Program 'Pendants Timer' Else Enable Program 'Pendants Timer' Hope this helps. -Xathros

This should only require a right click and query of the motion sensor's LowBatt node. You should see the status of the node change to off instantly with the query. Interestingly, I just had an issue with one of mine yesterday. I replaced a battery after a sensor issued a low battery warning, queried the low batt node to reset. The node status changed to Off with the query as expected. My warning program however, did not see the status change and continued to issue the notice every 12 hrs until I manually forced the If to run this afternoon. At that point, it properly evaluated false and stopped the run. I'm on 5.0.4. Dunno if this is a bug or a fluke. Waiting for the next occurrence before officially reporting. Hope this helps. -Xathros

Also, To answer the original question, you can right click the top of the program tree and select "Copy folder to clipboard", then paste into word or a text editor for a complete, human readable listing of all programs. Hope this helps. -Xathros

Thanks Michel. I have to say, I really like not needing to select ISY to issue commands to the other ISY. Just may need to prefix a few things with "Office" to differentiate between similar items at home and the office. -Xathros

V2 seem to be working nicely for the most part but I have discovered that the V2 connected home/smart home adapter does not support "Open" for "Turn On" or "Close" for "Turn Off". -Xathros

I'm on 5.0.4 currently. I own my networking module and like you, prefer it that way. I also subscribe to the ISY portal for use with Amazon Echo, IFTTT and for linking my 2 ISY's together. I am also a Mobilink user (Without ML Connect) and continue to use the geofence features without issue. To be fair, I'm not using the portal with Mobilinc at the moment but still using port forwarding in my router for that. I don't believe it makes a difference other than access via the portal seems slower with Mobilinc so I decided not to use it for that. -Xathros

I should modify a bung plug to accept these and market them as "Bunghole-I/O" -Xathros

Looks like someone already had my idea! -Xathros

I've been planning on setting a magnet on top of the indicator in my sight glass (Vertical cylindrical sight glass) and strapping an FET to the backside of the glass and using that to close an input on an IOLink or triggerlinc when the level drops to around 1/3. -Xathros