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Just ordered my engraver. Now I need to go order some blank buttons. Thanks to marcin and everyone else who has contributed to this thread! -Xathros

Certificate management is done via the Dashboard rather than via the admin console. Link to the dashboard jnlp file will be in the announcement post for the firmware version your running. Start here for 5.x versions: http://forum.universal-devices.com/forum/108-50/ or Here for 4.x and below: http://forum.universal-devices.com/forum/15-current-release-betas-and-bug-reports/ Hope this helps. -Xathros

Nice find. I'll have to see if I can translate that into a python script. If so, I could execute it from node link's relay server. Thanks! -Xathros

Can you provide details as to how that was accomplished before it broke please? Thanks. -Xathros

I agree that $30 seems a bit steep for what it is but I bet this guy is worried about recovering his tooling costs and the price will drop after that is taken care of. I have seen many things that were much farther from a realistic price than this. If I wanted to wall mount my Echo, I think I would order one of these even at this price point. Based on the recent flood of Echo accessories coming on the market, I suspect it won't be long before this has some competition to chase the price down. -Xathros

USB will NOT work. Must be a 2413S Serial PLM. Or an older 2412S but unlikely you will find one of those anywhere. -Xathros

You will need an Insteon 2413S PLM to interface the ISY to the powerline. This is not a Hub but rather just a serial powerline modem. Not sure if what you ordered includes this but most kits do. -Xathros

Have you ordered a Dot? I wonder if the updated software is being pushed out to accounts that have ordered dots... -Xathros

Both of mine are at 3202. The upgrade from 3077 happened sometime over the last 4 days. -Xathros

Problem solved. Turns out that both of my ISYs were using a dispatcher URL from back in the alpha days. Michel had me set the default dispatcher URL and my ISY came right back online. Just in case you find yourself in this position, telnet into your ISY and issue DPU <enter> to set the default url then XS <enter> to exit the shell. Thanks all for chiming in! And thank you to Michel for the speedy resolution. -Xathros

This evening neither of my ISYs are showing online in the portal. On the one ISY that I can reach from here, the portal tab shows Offline, Registered. I have rebooted the ISY with no change. The portal shows both ISY's offline, last seen at 175:51:59 EST. Is anybody else seeing the same? I have PM'd Michel and will update this thread as I learn anything. -Xathros This has to be because of my "Cloud" comment earlier today...

The Ubiquity network stuff is good gear. I use them both at work and at home. I have installed them at numerous client locations as well. No issues on my Macs in terms of getting them running. They do use Java for their "Controller" but I have not had any trouble in that regard. The controller is not necessary beyond for configuration unless you want to monitor the network. Hope this helps. -Xathros PS: These are WAY better than any of the Airport gear in terms of signal propagation.

And retriggers your program running false because the mode was changed to off.... -Xathros Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hey Stu, Wouldn't both of those trigger upon opening or closing (Assuming he is sending Off commands from the sensor) the door making this designed to do exactly what he doesn't want? Maybe program #2 was supposed to be disabled? I'm still waiting for a reply from the OP re my questions. It may be an issue with how the TStat is handling the mode set command as well but need more info from the OP to make a good diagnosis. -Xathros

Is the Open/Close sensor configured to only send 'On' commands? Can you watch the program summary when closing the door and see if the program turns false? Post your findings. -Xathros

You don't run the program. Instead, you wait for it to run by being triggered via the sensor's heartbeat which should come sometime within the next 24 hr period. At that point, the program will attempt to write changes to the sensor while it is awake for the heartbeat transaction. -Xathros

Here are the key parameters I'm using for my smart plug: Parameter Size Value Comments ========= ==== ===== ================================================ 1 1 0 MultiSensor reports Power 90 1 1 Enable Params 91 & 92 91 2 25 Minimum Watts change to report. 92 2 5 Minimum % change in Watts to report. 101 4 8 Report KWH in Grp 1 102 4 2 Report Multisensor in Grp 2 103 4 0 Grp 3 no report 111 4 600 Group 1 report every 600 Seconds (You will want 300 here) 112 4 600 Group 2 report every 600 secs (10 min) I think thats all I set on mine. -Xathros

I have a few of those. I will check my settings when I get back to the office this afternoon. -Xathros Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

No problem. Always happy to help. The parameters are different for each ZWave device type/manufacturer. These should be documented by the device manufacturer. If not, I have found many answers in this ZWave device library: http://www.pepper1.net/zwavedb/device?page=1 Click the device name on the left rather than the document icon on the right for a readable parameter listing. Once you know the parameter ID's, parameter size and values, you can edit them in the ISY Admin console by right clicking on the ZWave device in the tree and selecting "ZWave / Set Configuration Parameters" from the popup menu. Then enter the parameter ID, it's size and your desired value. If you try to query a device to retrieve an existing parameter value, you must properly set the parameter's size in the dialog before you query. Give the system a few (5 ish) seconds after hitting query for the ISY to chat with the device, receive and display the result. Hope this helps. -Xathros

My Energy capable ZWave devices all have parameters that define update intervals as well as update thresholds. Once configured, these devices send their data regularly and reliably. -Xathros

To add to what Jimbo provided above, the ISY Skill is available on the Echo once you get connected via the ISY Portal. That skill allows more control of things beyond On/Off/Brighten/Dim but the language is still fairly restricted. I understand that the Mobilinc Connect portal now also offers their own Alexa skill. I have no information on what the MLC skill is capable of but I would have to guess it is similar to the ISY skill. There is a fair amount of overlap between the ISY Portal and the MLC Portal. Each has a few capabilities that the other does not. I personally have never used the MLC portal but do use Mobilinc (The App) frequently. I'm quite satisfied with using Mobilinc and the ISY portal. Given your listed goals, an RPi is a necessity in my opinion. It will serve you well and the learning curve is not that bad with all of the support available here and across the internet. As for alarm integration, the Elk has direct ISY support once you purchase the Elk modiule on the ISY and the extra interface gear on the Elk side. That said, once you have the Pi, IO_guy has DSCLink and NodeLink programs that both can be used to integrate a DSC system with the ISY. In addition, IO_guy has EcoLink, VenLink and Nodelink that can be used for integrating Ecobee and Venstar WiFi thermostats and I have heard some rumors that there may even be Nest support in the works. So, as I said above, the Pi is really a necessity. Hope this helps. -Xathros PS: ISYHelper is next up on my todo list for one of my Pi's. The IFTTT piece of the Harmony puzzle is the weak link making integration iffy at best. I'll be very happy to have that whole transaction local once past the Echo voice command.

Hey Stu, Just curious... did you get this working? -Xathros

I think a TTS solution would be more flexible and allow us to custom code the responses to each use case. I expect Amazon will eventually get around to allowing this. In the meantime, I agree, the ability to set a different canned response for on and off actions would be helpful. -Xathros

Likewise with the Echo->IFTTT->ISY, Turn On/Off TV works fine for me (except for the IFTTT induced latency). As soon as I have a free weekend afternoon, I'm moving to ISYHelper and bringing this as "in-house" as I can make it. -Xathros

At the moment, Amazon is not providing the ability for us to send speech to the Echo. This is a feature a number of us are looking for and I'm hopeful that Amazon sees the light at some point. There is a thread going here on this subject: http://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/18000-can-isy-use-amazon-echo-as-an-alert-device/?do=findComment&comment=164292 Hope this helps. -Xathros