RPerrault

thanks for the replies for the lighting - all the controllers will be insteon - one dimmer to control the z-wave led 'controller' and a few insteon controllers that are part of a room scene - hopefully it will behave if alexa sets the scene on the blinds - alexa can 'open and close' the blinds - i don't have plans for any insteon controllers right now - the 3 for the bay window - i will have a program to open and close - have to figure out how to have alexa trigger that - my plan is to open and close daily at sunrise and sunset since i do not have the blind yet, i have not experimented with setting how far 'open' is - the iblind installed as binary and multilevel switch - hopefully that will set the open amount as the default lutron does an excellent job of synchronizing their blinds but the cost is prohibitive and the interface to alexa and everything else is not clear in my mind - i will stage the opening and closing with iblinds but if one of the 3 blinds is open a little more than the others, that is going to drive me nuts - just not nuts enough to pay for the lutron blinds

oh - on 5.0.14a - and on the polygluttonous thing with a few things - ring - sonos - ecobee

slooplinc here - creator of the infamous dusk scene (and i think that was done on my isy 26 - though it did require a custom plm) i added the z-wave card to my 944 - its that 500 series thing - thought i was going to do a z-wave motion detector since insteon could not make one that worked - but ended up using a motion detector connected to the elk security system - when i got the board, i put in 3 repeaters - never did any other z-wave until i saw someone post a blurb about iblinds - always wanted blinds automated but never saw a product that satisfied me AND i was willing to pay for - ordered one and fumbled through including it in the network - its not in a blind yet (it has to calibrate) but it does respond - high hopes it works because i'll need more then i see led under counter lighting - the tape lights - very few a dimmable and 120v - and the leds with insteon dimmers don't excite me - so right now i have halogen undercounter lights - insteon dimmer and an inline dimmer with a couple of keypad keys assigned as controllers in a scene reading about dimming led strips with a led controller (24v) - dimming seems to be less offensive than the 120v dimming - but an insteon led dimmer controller? z-wave has them - z-wave plus - but i don't know if my insteon dimmer and keypad keys can be used as a controller in a scene with the z-wave led controllers as responders - (i'd remove the load from the dimmer and use it as one of the insteon scene controllers) all the controllers would be insteon - i read about status updates with z-wave controllers updating insteon controllers in the same scene) would that work? also - what is up with those z-wave groups? as in - what are they - is it like assigning multiple z-wave devices to respond as one? i have a bay window and would like 3 iblind devices to respond as one so cool that the open/close stuff works with shewhosenameshallnotbespoken - as in - shewhosenameshallnotbespoken, open the kitchen blinds thanks for any advice