satwar

Your first example was perfect for my project. I run a macro in mControl which writes a starting value (60 minutes) for S.Timer in ISY. ISY executes the countdown function. ISY uses countdown timer value to make further decisions. Worked perfectly.

Thank you so much

I want to be able to start a timer and read it's status in a small program.

I got a insteon usb stick talking to a 2443 Access Point, but that's not good enough. So this is way too much work. I'll change the contact logic in the sending device and leave the ezio2x4 alone. Thanks for your help, just the same

But how do I connect a PC to the 2413S PLM ?

Wow, thank you. I'm confused about this serial port business. The ISY has a RJ45 cable plugged into 2413S insteon module (PLM). Now how do I plug this 2413S into a computer using this RJ45 cable ?

I have a temperature monitoring device with contact closure at limits. I jumpered +5V to I1+ and wired the contact outputs of monitoring device between I1- and Ground. One of the ISY entries for the EZIO2x4 seems to toggle on/off as I manipulate contact closure on the monitoring device. (1) How can I reverse the logic so that no contact closure produces an "on" signal from EZIO2x4 ? (2) When I connect a second contact closure device, do I wire up the same as I1 except using I2+ and I2- ?

Wow, was that a great idea, seems to work well. Wget seems to be robust enough to carry on no matter what I throw at it. Thank you

Sorry, I spoke too soon, eventually IE seems to stop writing to the ISY REST interface. Is there an application that specializes in sending http urls to a server, that supports command line usage ?

Okay, I finally got something to work. I went back to my original plan of executing the device off command using REST in a mControl macro. It indeed does work Also as long as I "manually" toggle the status of the Insteon devices using ISY, I have no problems. Problems with mControl writing to the State Variable only occur if I use the mControl "ISY Automation" macros for "manually" toggling the status of the Insteon device. Conclusion: Strange things can happen when you use mControl "ISY Automation" macros for devices that are also controlled by ISY programs

Well I did some thinking and came within reach of victory but the ISY reacts oddly to my solution. Explanation is very difficult, but I'll do my best. I use mControl for high level control of ISY. I finally realized that I don't need to create REST commands in mControl macros to turn insteon devices off and on, I can use built-in mControl "ISY Automation" commands. Turning insteon devices off and on now works like a charm. So I've solved my initial problem, but........... I still need to use mControl macros to send REST commands to ISY state variables changing their values between 0 and 1. I use these ISY state variables to control whether or not programs held in ISY folders will run. Unfortunately, the ISY state variables stop being changable by the mControl REST commands if I manually turn a insteon device off, which was on. Strangely if I run the REST command line for changing ISY state variables directly from internet explorer, the ISY state variables change their value as instructed. The only way I've been able to get the mControl macros for changing the ISY state variable values working again is to reboot the computer hosting mControl. I seem to have stumbled into a problem way beyond my expertise. I don't understand why IE command line always works but mControl macro with same command ( "http://admin:password@192.168.0.xx:9091/rest/vars/set/2/5/0") stops working.

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No leading zeros: 17 A7 73 1 It's a insteon 2466S device, and I'm trying to turn the load off.

After a very painful process I finally got REST to change a status variable value in ISY Program: c:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe Parameters: "http://admin:password@192.168.0.xx:9091/rest/vars/set/2/5/0" I'm now trying to turn an insteon device off in ISY using REST Program: c:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe Parameters: "http://admin:password@192.168.0.xx:9091/rest/nodes/xx xx xx 1/cmd/DOF" Can anyone see why the command line doesn't work ?

Silly me. The ISY was adding the i/o linc 2450, I just didn't see it in the folder structure. Everything works fine. Thank you for the support.

I'm using 3.2.6 the i/o Linc will turn the togglerelay on/off based on the sensor status wired to the i/o linc I guess the first thing is to clear the togglelink and i/o linc to their factory settings ? I had no luck getting the isy to discover the i/o linc, but will try again.

I have manually (holding set button) linked an I/O Linc 2450 to an insteon relay switch 2466S. But I would like to configure same logic in ISY. I suspect I need to create a scene, but I can't figure out how to add the I/O Linc 2450 device. I tried just creating a new insteon device but the isy doesn't do anything

It's working, after I used the microsoft fix 50642. I'm stuck with ie because I'm issuing the commands from a whs v1. It's using ie7, which also has the problem of not accepting Userid:Password@IPaddress in the http:// path. Thanks all for the help. I didn't expect results so soon.

Sorry for the delay but the rest part is working. I must have made a typo. Unfortunately I am still getting the confirm userid & password dialog box. Yes I see the problem about ie9, but I'm using Firefox. Microsoft does offer a patch to allow userid:password in the http path.

Sorry, I missed that point in your last post. http://admin:password@192.168.0.49:90xx ... /set/2/1/1 Seem to be two issues: 1. A dialog box pops up asking me to confirm user id & password, even though they are filled in. Must be switch to suppress that ? 2. rest complaining about missing style information

Well I gave it my best shot: http://admin:pass@192.168.0.xxx:90xx/re ... ion.Mode/1 and it found the isy but REST complaining about missing style information

Okay I see the generic command line I need: /rest/vars/set/// In my case = 2, = Vacation.Mode, = 1 Now what is the syntax to send to the isy99i device = 192.168.0.xxx with user = admin and password = pass http://admin:pass@192.168.0.xxx ?

I was afraid someone would say that. Is there a good link on using rest in this forrum ?

I'm really happy with the automated functions programmed into isy, but I don't like having to manually intervene. For example I have a "vacation mode" variable that I change from a value of 0 to 1 to invoke automatic light timers throughout the house. What I'd really like to do is change this value by running a command from an external program such as mControl. I've made some progress with mControl and would like to explore the possibilities. I hope I am not offending the isy community by trying to use mControl as a GUI for isy.

Lot of great help, thank you everyone