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Sounds good. I was just trying to do some initial information gathering to get an idea of the possibilities. I may end up just using both controllers for different things. I still need the alarm module for cellular backup anyway. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Okay thanks again. I'm pretty sure I could add the ISY to alarm.com, but I think that wouldn't buy me much, because if I'm thinking correctly, then the ISY devices would show up in alarm.com but be subject to the same limitations I'm trying to resolve. Not sure what Polisy is - new to this ISY game. Sounds like I have some reading to do!

Thanks Mr. Bill. Not sure about hitting a url but I know it can send emails and texts, as well as notifications for the alarm.com app, of course. I'll check to see if there is some way to configure it to hit a URL. In looking through some threads on this forum, I've seen mention of secondary controllers elsewhere too. I'm guessing that you could add either controller to the other as a secondary? For maximum functionality, I'm thinking that adding alarm.com controller to ISY as a secondary would provide the most functionality. Is that correct? That being said, I'm not sure how I'd accomplish it. I've added secondary controllers to alarm.com before, but not sure how to add it to the ISY as a secondary controller.

Okay thanks for the information. So it sounds like there is generally feature parity between both? Including with ios apps? Is Mobilinc a one time app fee whereas the portal is a subscription? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I just purchased an ISY-994i for use with my current Z-wave devices (about 60), that I currently have configured in an existing alarm.com configuration. I purchased the ISY mainly because of lack of flexibility with the alarm.com automation module, such as lack of support for associated devices., and also due to a recent lack of reliability with the automation module, which has already been replaced once before. I have some older Insteon devices that I'm not currently using, but may explore those later with the add on module. For starters, my plan is to do some proof of concept with the ISY so that I can see whether I can set it up to do most or all of what I'm currently doing with alarm.com. I'm thinking that the ISY can do more, but there may be some downgrades, such as the ability to trigger devices on arming/disarming. I found an older thread (2017) where this question was asked, but figured I'd try to get an updated status/opinions: Question 1: As an iPhone user with the choice to select either Mobilinc or ISY Portal, what are the key differences that I should consider? I don't really care about energy savings, but do care about maximum functionality with remote access, Alexa, and iOS. I have vpn set up to my house, so I don't necessarily need external access without port forwarding. However, I most definitely want to integrate with Alexa. Question 2: Is there any way to set up the ISY to run a scene or automate based upon an alarm.com event, such as disarming the system? Alternatively, can the ISY receive a notification, text or email, and then take a action based on that? If so, I could set up alarm.com to send notifications to ISY and then trigger on that, I'm thinking. Thanks for any feedback!