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Kclenden: Yes. It looks like in a normal situation the message is just what I got at 3:00 AM when nothing triggered the sensor. I simulated the door opening and got the notification just like I did at 3:00 AM. So now the mystery deepens as the clue 255 means nothing special. Weird. End of life crisis? Paul: The sensor is more exposed to cold weather. That would be too bad if the battery gets finicky before the sensor identifies the low battery status. But I have not had problems before. I will change batteries. Thanks - David

I have a hidden door sensor that has been going along just fine. I have used the state variables to identify when the unit needs attention like a battery change and other than that, it has been humming without issue. Last night however at 3:00 AM the program whose IF statements are 1) if between midnight and 5:00 AM. AND 2) Status of Front Door Sensor is 100%. Then do the then thing. So At 3:00 AM I am told the 'Front Door Hidden Sensor' Status set to 255. This has never happened before and I am curious if the 255 tells anyone anything? I think the message would have said something like the "Sensor is ON or OFF". Any thoughts? BTW, I am thinking of separating out this IF statement into an enabled program that asks for the "Control" of the sensor and if it is Control ON then go to a disabled program whose IF statement asks what time it is in oder to run the notifications. David

Oberck - that worked. Thanks. D

hmm. I have a state variable set up for my leak sensors and it is a bit complicated but doable. I might try the disabling solution first when I have time. For now, my wife and I had a good laugh as to why she couldn't tun off the lights. Yeah, that's me - left the bad program enabled and went to bed. David

I wrote this little program thinking it would tun off the lights in the kitchen (the scene) if any of the lights were on. And if the lights were all off it would turn on the typical light selection. But it will turn all the lights off and immediately turn the two lights on that are mentioned in the "Else". I tried putting a "stop program" command under the "Then" commands but that didn't seem to do anything. Has anyone had luck creating a toggle like function into a single press of a button? IR06 - [ID 0012][Parent 000B] If IR 'IR_006' is Pressed And ( Status 'Kitchen Cans' is not Off Or Status 'Kitchen Pendant' is not Off Or Status 'Kitchen Sink' is On Or Status 'Kitchen flouresc living' is not Off Or Status 'Kitchen flouresc living' is not Off ) Then Set Scene 'Kitchen Lights' Off Else Set 'Kitchen Pendant' On Set 'Kitchen Sink' On David

Follow up for those interested: I installed the IR receiver (might have been nice to know about the hidden screw under label on back of ISY). The Harmony Elite will automatically set up 40 IR codes when you tell it the "device" is an ISY994 IR-Pro. I want the remote to have the option to control the lights in all "activities", so I have to add the Light Controller into all activities. With the controller in the activities it is a matter of using the "buttons" feature in the desktop software to pull in the controller buttons into the activity one at a time and rename them to the proper name (from IR001) to "Movie Lights" or whatever. I have not tried this, but I believe I can tag onto the end of one my activity processes a "sequence" that presses the button that activates the movie light program. This is a reasonable solution for our family though the touch sensitive screen is very sensitive and I think it may get on my nerve. Thanks again guys. David

Having looked through the Harmony documents, I am going to guess that I simply ask the Harmony to download a fake TV (one that I do not own). And use those codes (which will do nothing to my actual components) but the ISY will be primed to act. Does that sound right? David

With the IR module the Harmony would signal the ISY directly, right? The assumption here is that the Harmony has separate codes (hex?) to actually send. David

Hmm. Thanks for the responses everyone. Paul, I am all in on this solution. Got the IR module ordered (a bit high in the shipping but much cheaper than an upgraded ISY). And a older Harmony (like the “One”). And some quality time with the admin console. Wish me luck.

Paul - that's mind blowing. So, I open ISY, plug in IR module, update ISY admin consul and Bam, it will receive the IR from a universal remote (like a cheaper universal remote - Harmony One for ex)... Do you think I could place actions in the ISY admin consul for certain IR codes? If so I would not need to learn how to write commands to a node. Cool. Thank you

OK this might be where I am headed. Forget Alexa/echo and I don't want to buy a new ISY with the IR receiver. Is there a lag time when trying to use the IFTTT via the Smart Thing Hub. And did you need to write any code? The ISY interface is challenging enough. David

My ISY994(i) does not have the IR receiver in it. With many products talking to one another through interfaces, I am hoping there is a universal remote (like the Harmony Elite) that could communicate to the ISY for light controls. The manual says the Harmony will work with Insteon through the "Insteon Hub" which is too bad cause the Insteon Hub sucks. That's why I have the ISY after all. So any thoughts out there? I am willing to look at URC or other brands of universal remotes. David

I have used the same logic for several Open/Close sensors for doors. They have the low battery and Heartbeat signal which would really be useless except for this well written script. However, I have one door sensor that won't reset from the "3" state. I have changed out the batteries (somewhat corroded) and cleaned the gunk off the spring end. Nothing on the motherboard (board). The sensor appears to be working in that I can open the door and I get notified appropriately. I have tried to manually change the state within the administration controls in the State Variables page back to "1". And of course have pushed the button on the sensor itself. In addition, the Low Battery indication within the admin consul appears to be blank so at least that part of the signal isn't getting through. Additionally, we have been through one or two power outages, so I have restarted the ISY. Should I conclude that this sensor is sort of dead? Or is there a small trick I am not seeing to reset these? Thanks David

It is the second step that is not working. I can right click and ask it to open, and it acts like it is going to do something but then nothing gets placed on the desk top. What image file can I use for this forum. I can share the images in the Java console. It shows that the application exists (size 4121kb) but in the 'status' column it is 'unlinked'. David

I thought this was going to work. But I have a Mac. My admin.jnlp goes nowhere, though it looks like it is opening with a splash screen but then it stops. It is trying to open with Java Web Start.app But I guess I am supposed to get it associated with a different application? FYI - I have cleared the cache and downloaded the jnlp file. To even get the splash screen I have to right click on the file from inside the Finder. But again nothing is put on the desktop. Of course, I can drag the file to the desktop but that is not the actual application. Update: I tried to open the jnlp file directly from the Java Console however it also did nothing... I put a shortcut on the desk top but that didn't open either. ... I looked at the data file associated with the jnlp file but I don't read this language. Maybe it makes sense to someone?? <jnlp spec="1.0+" codebase="http://isy.universal-devices.com/994i/4.6.2/"href="http://isy.universal-devices.com/994i/4.6.2/admin.jnlp"> <information> <title>ISY994 Administrative Console</title> <vendor>Universal Devices, Inc.</vendor> <homepage href="http://www.universal-devices.com"/> <description>Configuration Utility for ISY</description> <description kind="short">ISY Admin Console</description> <icon href="http://isy.universal-devices.com/994i/4.6.2/udlogo.png"kind="splash"/> <icon href="http://isy.universal-devices.com/994i/4.6.2/isy.jpg"kind="default"/> <shortcut online="true" install="false"> <desktop/> <menu submenu="ISY994 Series"/> </shortcut> <offline-allowed/> </information> <security> <all-permissions/> </security> <update check="background" policy="always"/> <resources> <jar href="http://isy.universal-devices.com/994i/4.6.2/insteon.jar"download="eager" main="false"/> <jar href="http://isy.universal-devices.com/994i/4.6.2/ce.jar"download="lazy" main="false"/> <jar href="http://isy.universal-devices.com/994i/4.6.2/chart.jar"download="lazy" main="false"/> <jar href="http://isy.universal-devices.com/994i/4.6.2/fp.jar"download="lazy" main="false"/> <jar href="http://isy.universal-devices.com/994i/4.6.2/RXTX.jar"download="lazy" main="false"/> <java href="http://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se"version="1.7+"/> </resources> <application-desc main-class="com.universaldevices.client.ui.UDClientApplet"> <argument>urn:udi-com:device:X_Insteon_Lighting_Device:1</argument> </application-desc> </jnlp> Anyway. I have not been able to look at the admin console for quite a long time. But alas, I need to get in there to fix something. David