
bmercier
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The host name is my.isy.io Other than that, it seems to be correct. I would suggest to try it first from a browser to help troubleshooting. Benoit
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In the ISY network resource, if you choose https, you don't have to supply a port number. It's implicitly 443.
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You have to: Set the host to my.isy.io Set the protocol to HTTPS (if not already set to HTTPS) Change the URL to include the ISY Key (What you see in the URL to ISY after the host name). The authorization will be different. When going through ISY Portal, you have to use an ISY Portal user and password, not your regular ISY credentials) Not sure this is in the Wiki. Benoit
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It's easier than that. Use Select tools | ISY Information, look at the "URL to ISY". Just use this URL, and add regular rest commands to this URL. You need to pass your ISY Portal Credential. Benoit
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I'm also using Chrome, and this should work for most browsers. To be more specific, when you have the A/V Dialog open, let's say on the input tab, hovering over "Input 1" should show you a tooltip (A small popup) with a sample wording. Benoit
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Quick tip: When you are on the A/V dialog, move you mouse over the field label. It shows a sample wording to invoke the action.
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Suggestions: Try "Alexa, change input to <input> on <device>". This one is known to work. Try different input name. game works. Alexa can be picky on the input names, and it has to exactly match one of the inputs. Look at the history. Make sure she understood the input name like you intended. Benoit
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That's the correct thing to do. The forget is optional. At first, you said you had unlinked and relinked, which you don't have to.
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Live update is a different thing. All it does is open a permanent subscription with the ISY and sends device states to Amazon. It only sends the state for which there is a spoken. When a new spoken is created, it needs to be discovered.
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Had you try to "discover" devices? When you add spoken on ISY Portal, they need to be discovered by Alexa. The easiest is to ask "Alexa, discover my devices". Benoit
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Try with standard input names such as "game", "cable". Benoit
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I'd suggest to expose the variable as a device instead. The added benefit is that a variable exposed as a device can have a brightness level which translates to the variable value. In other words, turning on the "variable" to 50% will set it to 50. Benoit
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Just to be sure, are you using the same Amazon account for both echo? Or do you have a different one for both home? You need to have one per residence. Setting up a second residence is the same process as your primary one, but you have to have: Different echos for both homes (I assume you don't move them between houses) 2 Different Amazon accounts. One used for the primary residence, one used for the secondary residence. 2 Different ISY Portal user profiles. Each one must have the preferred ISY set to the appropriate ISY. They can both be in the same ISY Portal account. Then, when you link, you have to login to alexa.amazon.com using the Amazon account related to the residence you want to configure, and link to the appropriate ISY Portal user profile. Doing this should not affect the other residence if it uses a different amazon account. Benoit
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What do you mean? An ISY is not "linked" to anything. An Amazon account links to an ISY Portal User profile, which is "linked" to an ISY (by specifying the preferred ISY). If you are referring to the "Amazon account linked to" box under "My Profile", please disregard. It is no longer used when using the V3 skill. Are you referring to the account linking when you enable the skill in the Alexa app? Benoit
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Absolutely. Just to clarify, here's how things are linked together. If both homes have their own Echo and their own ISY, you don't even need sub-accounts. Echo A uses Amazon account A, which is linked to ISY Portal user A. This ISY Portal User A needs to have ISY A as his preferred ISY. Echo B uses Amazon account B, which is linked to ISY Portal user B (Can be in same account as ISY Portal User A). This ISY Portal User B needs to have ISY B as his preferred ISY. That's it. Benoit.
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Any way to get Google to read a variable value?
bmercier replied to timekiller's topic in Google Home
A variable is exposed to Google Home as if it was a dimmer. So as you already know, you can set it to a specific value by asking to turn it on to a specific percentage. You can ask something like: Okay Google, what is the kitchen brightness? This will tell you the actual variable value. This is not too intuitive, but it works. Benoit -
No, there are no plans at this time. It's more complex to implement because a node has custom controls. Therefore, the AV UI would need to allow selection of the node, plus one of the valid controls taken from the nodedef. Perhaps if there are many users who requests it, we would revisit this feature. Benoit
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Try to turn on/turn off the scene from the admin console. This is essentially what the echo does when turning on or off a scene. Benoit Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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HELP? Amazon Echo will not link to ISY using Smart Home V3
bmercier replied to pparker900's topic in Amazon Echo
When I tried again yesterday, somehow I had a sort of reCaptcha I had to enter, then it worked. Not sure why I had that. Initially, I though Amazon might have solved something. This behavior leads me to think it may be something related to the Amazon profile somewhere. This might be an issue with a cookie or cache too, but I doubt it because when it was not working, I had tried 3 browsers and experienced the same issue. I tried IE and Firefox, which I very rarely use. I think a support call to Amazon might help. -
HELP? Amazon Echo will not link to ISY using Smart Home V3
bmercier replied to pparker900's topic in Amazon Echo
Oh, good to know Thanks, BenoƮt Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk -
HELP? Amazon Echo will not link to ISY using Smart Home V3
bmercier replied to pparker900's topic in Amazon Echo
I'm not sure that what you did helped. I had the problem. Retried many times. Then tonight it suddenly worked. I think Amazon solved something in the last few hours. Benoit -
HELP? Amazon Echo will not link to ISY using Smart Home V3
bmercier replied to pparker900's topic in Amazon Echo
It seems to be working now. At least for me. @andersol, can you retry and let me know? Benoit -
HELP? Amazon Echo will not link to ISY using Smart Home V3
bmercier replied to pparker900's topic in Amazon Echo
I tried it and I'm seeing the same problem. There seems to be an issue at Amazon. I'm contacting Amazon support. Benoit -
Sure, that is possible Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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There has been no changes to AV for quite a while Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk