johnmsch

Just wondering what you guys mean by clearing out the notifications in the Notification Center. At least on my iPhone 6s, it only keeps the past 7 days worth of notifications. Anything older than that is automatically purged. Also, and please understand I'm not intentionally being dense here, but I don't understand the statement "Notifications usually disappear when you read them in the originating app (like email)". I'm not aware of any other apps that perform that way, especially email. Are you referring to the email client on the iPhone? If so, my emails do not disappear once they are flagged as having been read. Just to provide a screenshot and explanation of what I'm talking about: Keeping all notifications in the Notification Center is especially important to me when I'm messing around with ISY programs/settings/devices. I like to be able to see the sequence of events as they happen. Whenever I make any changes in the ISY, I like having this log (even though its in reverse-chronological order) of things that are/were happening just to be sure I have everything setup the way I want. I really appreciate all the replies. I guess it just comes down to a personal preference, but as I said before, none of the other notifications I get (in this case, specifically the Arlo and MobiLinc) are deleted from the Notification Center. I'm really struggling to understand why only Pushover would do that.

Hey Paul, I'm not following what you're saying. I too have unique sounds for certain notifications and get new events normally. Don't see what that has to do with the iOS notification center.

Been using Pushover for about a week now, and its working fine, except for (what I consider) to be a big flaw. When I get a push notification to my iPhone, I can then go to the Notification Center (swipe down from most any screen) and see it in reverse chronological order with all the other notifications from other apps. However, if you open up the Pushover app, it then erases all it's notifications from the Notification Center! I posted this compliant on their support forum (https://www.reddit.com/r/pushover/comments/4yjadz/ios_notifications_disappear/?sort=old). Someone who appears to be a developer for Pushover said this is intentional. BTW, never seen any company use reddit as a support forum. According to him, this is by design. I just can't understand what their reasoning is behind that decision. Is it just me, or does anyone else using Pushover find this annoying? The whole purpose of the Notification Center is to keep a few days worth of history of notifications. Why would any app purposely remove them?

Thanks Paul/Michael. I was aware of the Wiki page with all the built-in variables that can be used, but as you can see from my example scenario in post #20, that's not what I was looking for. Is there somewhere I can promote the idea of string variables in the ISY to the folks at UD? I would really love to see that feature!

Thanks so much guys. This forum is an absolute gold mine of information. Michael - could you please expand on what you mean by substitutions, or point me to some documentation? Hopefully, the following is a better explanation of what I'm looking for... Let's say that I want a push message whenever a few lights come on. Call them Barn, Shed and Outhouse. For each of these, I have to go to the Admin Console -> Configuration tab -> Networking tab -> Network Resources tab and create a resource for each one. The first one will have the hardcoded message "Barn light is on". I then make a copy of that one and change the message to "Shed light is on", then another copy and change the message to "Outhouse light (and exhaust fan) is on". I then create 3 programs, one for each of the lights, and use the corresponding resource to get the push message when that particular light switch is turned on. It would be nice if I could just create one resource, and in the message use something like a string variable such as %MessageString%. Then, from each one of those 3 programs, I somehow set that variable to the appropriate message I want pushed, or pass it like a command line parameter when I call the resource. This way, you actually could have just one resource defined and use it by multiple programs/scenes.

Ok, all setup and the first test push went fine. Can someone please post an example of where you are calling the Push notification from an ISY program? Also, do we have to "hardcode" each push message? In other words, can we setup a generic push, and in the program that calls it, pass it the message to send, or does each message have to be specifically defined in Network Resources?

Nevermind. Finally figured it out.

Finally have some time to get back to this little project, but I'm already stuck. In the wiki article mentioned in post #6, it says: Sign up at https://pushover.net/login Make a note of your user key So far, so good. Create an application at https://pushover.net/apps Make a note of your application key Here's where I'm stuck. I don't see any apps at that link that have to do with the ISY994i, so how do I "Create an application"?

Saw that post earlier but never clicked the links. That's just what I'm looking for.

Thanks guys. Only been using MobiLinc for a couple months and didn't realize I could do Push through it via the ISY. Just did a test and it works perfectly. Pushover looks really good also. Is there an article/post/thread around here showing how to set it up and how to send a Push from an ISY program?

I'm looking to add Push notifications to my ISY994i. Although doing email and text notifications work fine, I'd really prefer Push. This would be pushing to my iPhone 6S running iOS 9.3 on the AT&T network. What do you guys use?

Just discovered that I can use Geofencing in MobiLinc Pro. Got it all setup and its working perfectly. Once you set it up, it automagically creates a state variable in the ISY, in my case its JohnnyiPhone_ImHome. When you go out of the Geofence, MobiLinc sets the value to 0. When you get back inside, it sets it to 1. Now I have this simple condition in the folder: Folder Conditions for 'Away' If $JohnnyiPhone_ImHome is 0 Then Allow the programs in this folder to run. Now I'm playing around with notifications. I had already set that up, but never used it. Would like to see some notification messages when a couple of the programs in the Away folder are executed. Looks like a real pain in the A$$ to setup Customizations, but I'll just keep at it. BTW, does anyone have any recommendations for a particular Push module to push these notifications to my iPhone? Pros/Cons vs sending text messages?

Thanks so much for all this information. I have lots of programs already in my ISY, but never had a need to use variables before.

Wow, that's very clever! I'm looking at using variables now. For this purpose (just having a variable set to 0 or 1), what's the difference between using an Integer variable and a State variable? Let's say I setup an Integer variable named $Away and had this for the folder condition: Folder Conditions for 'Away' If $Away is 1 Then Allow the programs in this folder to run. I'm still not clear on how I would setup a program, that I could run on demand, that would set that variable to 1 or zero. BTW, how did you post those code samples with the highlighting????? Thanks for the info!

I recently bought the iPhone app MobiLinc Pro and would like to setup a program that I can turn on/off from the app for when I'm away from home. I had already setup a folder in the Admin Console for my ISY994i. Under that folder, I have a few programs to turn on a radio, turn some lights on/off at random times, etc. Originally, the condition for that folder was: Folder Conditions for 'Away' If Status 'Garage Door Opener' is Off Then Allow the programs in this folder to run. When I would leave home (this was for when I'd be away overnight or on a trip), I would turn the garage door opener switch (ToggleLinc Relay) off and leave the house through another door. However, there have been times when I'm home and turn off the garage door opener switch, so I don't want the programs to run. Now that I have MobiLinc Pro, from which I can access my Scenes, Devices, Programs, etc, I trying to find a way to basically turn that "Away" folder on and off. I'm assuming this could be done with a program, so that when I leave home, I can turn that program on and the programs in the folder would then be active. Hopefully I've explained this well enough to get some help from you guys! Thanks

Just noticed something I haven't seen before. When I start the Admin console from that new desktop shortcut, this "ISY Finder" window pops up before the console, then stays in the background. What should I do with this? Click Save?

Thanks for the replies. Tried looking at this again first thing this morning, even before checking email or this forum. On the My Lighting page, under Settings, there is a button for Install Admin Console (Internet). Clicked on that and it installed the shortcut to the Admin Console on my desktop. Can't believe I didn't notice that before. Out of curiosity, how long has that option been on the Settings page?

Haven't had to touch the programming in my ISY 994i in a while, but now need to. When I try to launch the Admin Console, in either IE 11 or Firefox 45, running on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, I get the error "Java 2+ Required". I did some searches on this topic and found a number of items. I've cleared the cache and even uninstalled Java and did a new install of the latest Version 8 Update 91. I have the IP of the ISY in the Exception Site List in the Java control panel. What am I missing here? Can't think of anything that has changed on this machine since the last time it worked, when I upgraded from my old ISY 99 to this 994i. Obviously it worked then, since I had to restore all the programs from the backup of the 99.

Email sent. Thanks!

Looks like I spoke too soon. After the programs to turn the X10 devices on/off ran a couple of times, I'm back to the same issue, as seen below. Obviously this is not a big deal, but I just wonder why this is happening.

I checked (hadn't upgraded since I received the new 994i) and I was on 4.0.5. Just upgraded to 4.2.18, and it does not show the 255% now. Thanks

Recently upgraded to the 994i. Just noticed that in the Admin Console, my x10 devices (yes, I still have a few) are showing as 255%. Any idea what's going on there?

Thanks for the upgrade link. Just ran into this certificate problem today and found this thread. Not real happy about having to buy new hardware, but I do understand the logistics of supporting something past its end-of-life. Getting the upgrade for $99 isn't too bad. In fact, I'm looking forward to playing with a new toy. I'm just disappointed that UDI didn't send out some kind of announcement about the 99i being retired.

I just ordered a 994i to replace my old trusty 99i. What is the upgrade process? How do I transfer everything (devices, scenes, programs, etc) to the new unit? I'm sure this has been covered already, but just can't find that thread/documentation. Thanks

Thanks Lee! Worked like a charm.