johnmsch

Apparently, there is no way around the Comcast SSL requirement and there doesn't seem to be a way to specify an SSL connection in the console. Thanks to @Michel Kohanim for pointing me to the Wiki article showing how to configure for gmail in this post: https://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/26189-what-smtp-server-are-you-using/?do=findComment&comment=261371

Started another thread in the networking group to see what others are using. I can't even get this to work now with Yahoo or Gmail. Pretty much dead in the water here, at least as far as email notifications go.

Just realized today that I haven't been getting email notifications from my ISY for a while. For the SMTP server, I have been using the same Comcast server for a few years. After doing a little digging, I found that back in mid-March they started requiring SSL connections to send mail. From what I see in the Console (Configuration -> Email/Notifications -> Settings/Groups), our only options are TLS or nothing. Is there a way to use SSL? Is anyone else using Comcast/Xfinity SMTP?

Thanks everyone. Just did the upgrade and it went smoothly. There are a few programs that lost their Disabled status, but that was easy enough to correct. @kclenden: Using the new folder status logic works perfectly!

Ok, understood. Having retired from 35+ years of software development, I'm still a bit skiddish when I see the word "beta". One more question please before I take the jump. In the Prerequisites section, I see this: You must use the 5.0.9 Admin Console or greater to upgrade to this release (5.0.15). Coming from 4.7.3, do I really have to install 5.0.9 before upgrading to .15?

Thanks Guys. Just went hunting for a "stable" version of v5, but all I'm seeing is everything suffixed with (beta). It would seem that the 4.7.3 version I'm running is the most current GA version. What flavor of v5 would you recommend? ZWave is about the only toy I don't use in my system and I sure don't want to lose any of my X10 antiques. Thanks again for your time and responses.

Very cool. Thanks for the effort! That does look to be the perfect solution and is a good reason I should upgrade to v5. I've been putting it off for the old reason "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". I've been on the v4 versions for a long time and haven't seen the need to upgrade. How long have you been on v5? Run into any issues? Does it seem stable? Thanks again for the replies.

Thanks for the quick reply. I had thought of that, or even creating a program not in the folder with the same conditions. My concern there was if I ever change the folder condition, I can guarantee you I'll forget to change the other program! Especially since I hardly ever change any programs once they're up and running.

In my ISY console I have a folder that has two conditions for the folder to be active. So far, so good, its working fine. I'm looking for a way to get a notification via Pushover when that folder becomes active (i.e., those two conditions have been met). Setting up the Pushover notification is not a problem, as I have multiple ones already setup and working fine. The issue is that with folders, you can only add conditions to the IF statement. There doesn't appear to be a way to add any "THEN" logic in that statement. What am I missing here? I've been programming in the console for years, but am completely stumped by this one. No doubt, I'm missing something obvious!!!!?

Thank you sir!

Would someone please point me to that thread? I can't seem to find it.

Just got bit again by the DST change and my program referenced above sending the same hour count in an email every night at midnight. Since I suffer from a severe case of CRS, I had to come back to this forum, as I knew I was subscribed to a post about that counter getting stuck. And yes, here it is. Time to reboot the ISY. Problem solved again until the fall. After scanning through this thread again, I wanted to touch base with you guys to see if anyone came up with a way to get around this problem, or at least found a way to automatically reboot the ISY each time we have DST change.

That would indeed be the perfect solution. Having worked with a few systems over the years that did time-critical things over multiple time zones, that's exactly how they functioned. I'd add that to the list of things that will happen, right after the first flights of a swine air force.

Please keep us posted on your testing! I'm just going low tech and set a reminder on my iPhone to reboot the ISY when I wake up on Sunday morning after a DST change.

Thanks for the link sir. However, after reading through that thread, I feel like I need to take a shower.

Yep jimmyban, that must be it. Just checked the console and my ISY Uptime program is not running. I based this program on the example earlier in this thread. From what I can remember, it always showed in the console as Running 'Else'. Its now showing as Idle. Also the Last Run Time, Last Finish Time, and Next Scheduled Run columns are all blank. Anyone know what happened? Why did the DST change kill that program?

Just noticed something very strange. For the past 8 days, the email notification I get is stuck on "The ISY has been operating for 345 hours since last reboot". I haven't touched anything having to do with this functionality in months, and I can't see what the problem is. Any ideas why its stuck? Oh wait, just remembered, I replaced the PLM about a month ago, but up until last week, this was working fine.

Problem solved, and I didn't have to do a restore. I was driving this afternoon and the proverbial light bulb went on over my head. stusviews was trying to push me in the direction of using scenes and it finally sunk in. I created a scene for each one of the 8 buttons on the keypad. I then setup some programs that would catch buttons being pressed and run scenes for the others. So, in my original (albeit simplistic) hypothetical example, when button B is pressed, that event executes a program that sets the scene for button E to on. Now I don't have to worry about turning the individual LED's on programmatically, and I can turn E off without disturbing B. I also have the luxury to set variables in each one of the programs, cascade with delays before calling other scenes, and watching the buttons come on as those scenes are executed. Thanks again stu for the nudge!

Yes, it was setup correctly, but I believe I found the problem. When I set this up, I was using an existing scene. However, after setting everything up, I inadvertently deleted that scene and had to recreate it. Even though I used the same scene name, it appears that I would have to go back and update every place in the ISY that used that scene name and update the statement. Apparently, just because you use the same scene name as before, the ISY must keep some kind of pointer to the scene and doesn't see that scene, even with the same name as before. However, this doesn't solve my issue as I prefer to do this programmatically. I really like the effect of having a 2 second delay in between turning on each light. Gives a cascading effect as the lights come on, front to back. Additionally, I have to set two variables when the B button is pressed. Found that I do have a backup of the ISY program from the other house that I could restore to see how I had set this up back then. The question here is, can I restore a backup from a much older version of the ISY to the one I have now? Of course I would do a backup first, restore and view the old programs, then restore the current one.

I believe I set it up correctly, but its not working. I created a new scene and added button B as a controller, with button E and some other individual switches as responders. When I hit button B, it's LED comes on, but none of the devices turn on. This got me thinking about the old setup at a different house. I now remember not using scenes in that setup, but did everything in a program, since I did some variable manipulation and some Wait delays also. The program was activated when one of the keypad buttons was pressed. It turned on some individual lights, a scene, with Wait delays between each one, and set a couple variables. I got a lot of help from you guys here to get that working, but can't find the thread. Looks like we can only go back 6 months searching for messages we posted here.

I have one of the buttons ( on my 8-key keypad that turns on multiple lights via a program in my ISY994i. One of those lights also has its own button on the keypad (E). I'm trying to figure out how, when button B is pressed and that button light goes on, to also turn on the LED light on button E. Also, if button E is pressed while B is on, it would turn off that light only. I used to have this setup on an older 6-button keypad in another house, but can't remember how I set it up.

There you go mind reading again. Did just that!

Ok, I'm missing something obvious here. How do we check this???? Edit: Oops. Nevermind. Just went to Admin Console -> Help -> About. Edit #2: How do those (firmware & GUI) get out of sync? My GUI was newer than the firmware. Just upgraded the firmware and now they are both at 4.6.2.

There was a time when I would indeed do just that. Always been into electronics and electricity in general. Nowadays, its just not high on my list of to-do items.

Done. As I suspected, I get the same result. That sucker has gone to the dark side. Just wondering if Smarthome does autopsies on these? I'd be happy to send it back to them, although given its age and version, it probably wouldn't be relevant.