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A neat app that acts as a virtual Alexa. You can control your ISY devices outside of your house with voice commands! http://wccftech.com/reverb-app-brings-amazon-alexa-ios-android-mac-download/

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Just a possible enhancement, it would be nice to be able to define device/scene/program triggers in the admin console instead of the portal. Then the portal you could simply check them on/off or even have all of them work automatically. I'm certain I'm going to switch to Google Home when it comes out, and keeping the triggers associated with the ISY instead of the portal will allow one to use both systems without duplication of setup. Personally I find it preferable as this would follow the depndency injection software pattern.

The admin console does have BRIGHT & DIM buttons available for scenes.

I'm a big proponent of ISY scenes. I create and use scenes for everything, be it a 3 way switch, a complicated room setup or just a single light switch. It makes managing your network a lot simpler, especially if you have to replace devices. When I first got my Echo and bought the portal, adding scenes to control my home was beyond easy. Once I got the basic connections up, I had my entire scene structure on the portal in less than 5 minutes. However I'm missing one nagging feature. Device level. So my living room lights are in a scene called LR which controls 5 insteon devices. I can only use Alexa to turn the scene on or off. I'd like to find some hack or workaround where I could create a "virtual device" called vLR and when that is set to 50% brightness, all of the devices in LR would be set to 50% of their "on" value. So if the spotlight and stand lamp in LR are set to 90% and 80% respectively, a dim to 50% would set them to 45% and 40%. Any suggestions? This would be a nice enhancement. Add a checkbox to a scene "treat scene as device".

I woke up this morning to an offline isy on the portal. It works locally, and a reboot doesn't help. Any ideas?

Where did you ask? I've had experience with requesting stuff from Google before and I'd be happy to see if I could help facilitate you getting access sooner. If they haven't responded in over a week, they won't.

Are there plans on adding Google Home to the portal? If so, I'd love to be a beta tester I'm not too enamored with Alexa. Speech recognition is poor compared to Google and she's too damned chatty when there's an error. I searched, but the forum's search feature isn't returning anything relevant because of so many "Google" hits.

Alexa, turn ON reading. Ok. (Nothing happens) Repeat x 2, finally scene executes. This happens on several devices/scenes. I used to think that Alexa was confusing on and off, but this happens on my "all off scenes" (where the scene being turned on sets all levels to zero). Anyone else experiencing something like this? The only culprit I can think of is the PLM.

I have a gas powered fireplace that is controlled by a RF transmitter & receiver. Now that the ISY portal allows Alexa integration I'm anxious to get Alexa start carrying the water and give me some heat without having to search for the remote. My main problem is that I don't have AC power near my fireplace. And I don't want to have wired exposed, otherwise I would just use an insteon low voltage contact. So I'm planning on rolling my own RF receiver / transmitter setup. Unfortunately most of the ones I have found have significant current draws, so the batteries won't last more than a few days. But I did find this fellow: https://www.adafruit.com/products/1098 It supposably draws < 5ua in receiving mode, so it should last quite a while off batteries. Note, this does NOT come with a transmitter, that is sold separately. This unit is a latching decide. If you watch the video, buttons A,B,C,D will turn on an LED when pressed and turn off the others. I plan on hooking the fireplace up to A, and using the A button for On and B for Off. I'm going to see if I can capture the RF signal of the transmitter and use that instead of the remote (that way I can have a physical remote), but if that doesn't work I'll solder wires to the pads on the A & B buttons and use the Arduino to control them. I'm still awaiting for the RF parts to arrive, but I have made some nice progress with the Arduino. Now one of the problems with making your own "Alexa" device is having it be discoverable. But the ISY makes this a snap to get around. What I've done is add a variable to the ISY called FP. When I set that value to 1 (from the program module or Alexa) that is the signal to start the fireplace. A value of 2 is the off command. Now how do you use this variable with an Arduino? You don't, at least with not a standard Arduino. But they make cheap versions that have wifi built in. I'm using one called nodencu. When the unit fires up, it connects to my wifi and starts querying via REST the FP value. If it detects 1, it will transmit the A code and then set FP to 0 using rest. Value 2 will send the B code. This part of the project is working like a champ.

THIS. I always think of scenes as ISY scenes. Insteon scenes are simply a grouping of insteon devices independent of the ISY controller , whereas an ISY scene does two things. 1) it assists you to setup an insteon scene and 2) allows you to execute an insteon scene via the ISY.

From Echo, I'd like to be able to override a scene where each device has it's own level to be specified for Echo. eg. Alexa, set Master to 50% Since Master is a group of lights and switches it can only go on or off to the pre-defined levels. Alexa doesn't even allow a dim level to be set. But if Alexa were to see it as a switch, it could send the command to the ISY and the ISY should be able to process the scene by multiplying each device's scene level by .5 Thoughts? EDIT: Changed the topic title from: Is it possible to make an scene behave like a device? to Is it possible to make an ISY scene behave like a device?

What is the password field for? The instructions don't mention anything about this. https://wiki.universal-devices.com/index.php?title=ISY-994i_Series_INSTEON:Networking#Wake_On_LAN I would like to be able to wake a machine using a URL that I can bookmark. Can you add a link next to the "wake" button for a machine so that can be bookmarked? This would of course require the user to authenticate, which leads me to my next request: Please don't log the user out for inactivity, or at least provide that as an option.

Would you care to share what sort of grammar scheme you use for calling Alexa? For example: Alexa, turn stairs off Alexa turn upstairs lights off Alexa turn on upstairs lights You will notice the verb can come before or after the device/scene/program. I've noticed certain phrases are often in conflict with each other. One thing I have done is to add overlapping phrases, such as "sleepy time" and "sleepy time" to execute my "pre-bedtime" scene. All in all, I'm very impressed with the portal. This is what home automation needs.

For some reason the ip address of the machine I'm trying to wake isn't sticking. It always reverts back to 192.168.56.1

I'm trying to follow the prerequisite instructions here: https://wiki.universal-devices.com/index.php?title=ISY_Portal_Installation_Instructions Make sure your ISY is configured with TLS 1.2 and Strength All and Verify is unchecked for HTTPS Client settings. If you are unsure, please consult this document Network Security Configuration Guide And I can't find anyplace to set the TLS settings. I'm on firmware 4.5.4 (though the UI says 4.3.26) What am I missing?

Is there a way to issue a reboot using the API? I don't want to have to go into the java app to do this, nor physically power-cycle the device.

How do the two products differ in terms of scene linking? Does MH require every scene to be controlled by the PLM, whereas the ISY can link all scene elements together?

I upgraded my firmware and my custom application stopped working. I have a backup of my previous settings. How can I find out what firmware that was using, and how do I downgrade to that firmware?

Is there a way for a program to determine if the internet is available? Sometimes I need to restart my model & router, which are both connected to a Insteon switch. If the internet is not working, I would like to have a program power cycle those devices. Thanks,

Still getting the error after restoring a backup, I guess its ok since the reset works, but this is definitely a new issue.

I didn't realize the ISY has a factory reset button. That did the trick. Doing a restore now EDIT: Well after doing the restore, I'm getting the error again. It seems all my devices and scenes are there but, but I've never had this issue after upgrading a firmware before.

I just ran the firmware update (I took a backup as usual) and now the web interface wont start. I'm getting a flashing error light with some of the other lights green. I can't even ping the device. What do I do? Everything was working fine for months, this happened immediately after the firmware upgrade.

I removed the scene from the device and added it back in again and it seems to work. Thanks

The device is near the ap