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My question is if it can be disabled via an ISY program.

Thanks, this was very helpful. Do you know if you can disable/mute the built-in Alexa speaker on the Smart Thermostat Premium Plus via the ISY/Nodeserver?

I read up a bit the help section on Ecobee's website to become familiar with the way it works and how "comfort settings" work. So my question is, can you select & change from the ISY which comfort setting should be in effect now? Thanks

Thanks to everyone trying to help. I am including here a link to the Ecobee Nodeserver thread, where I posted the same question about the Ecobee thermostat, so we can keep the discussion in one place. Thanks. https://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/42308-ecobee-remote-sensor-capabilities/?do=findComment&comment=374547

Thanks to everyone trying to help. So let me clarify what I am trying to accomplish. My wife and I are hot people, and we like our bedroom colder than the average person. We have a wall unit A/C in our bedroom in addition to the central A/C. Sometimes in the fall & spring weather, we might sometimes still use our wall unit A/C, or later in the winter open the window, when others might have put on the heat already. Our thermostat is located in the master bedroom. So what I want to do is to put a remote sensor in one of the other bedrooms, and then be able to use a program to tell the thermostat that if the wall A/C in the master bedroom is on (using an Insteon On/off module), or if the window is open (monitored via a contact sensor) then use the sensor in the other room. Otherwise, use the thermostat’s own sensor. In the past I have had many times that the A/C was causing the heat to go on, thus causing the A/C to work even longer, and then they were fighting each other while the rest of the bedrooms were boiling away. Thanks again.

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Thanks for the detailed info.

Hi, Does this nodeserver use a local API or it goes thru the cloud? THanks.

Hi, I am looking into buying a new thermostat. The most important feature that I need, is to be able to control from the ISY using programs, when it should use the built-in sensor in the thermostat, and when to use the remote sensor. Does the Ecobee nodeserver support this? Thanks

Hi, I am looking into buying a new thermostat. The most important feature that I need, is to be able to control from the ISY using programs, when it should use the built-in sensor in the thermostat, and when to use the remote sensor. Does the Venstar nodeserver support this?

Thanks. I have the heat thermostat in my bedroom. Sometimes in the winter I like to open the window in my room at night to get some crisp air in, which in turn causes the heat to shoot up. I would love to be able to put a sensor on my window, and have a setting that when the window is open, the thermostat should use a remote sensor located in a different room.

Question: With the Venstar, can you change the setting from the ISY if it should use a remote sensor or the thermostat sensor?

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HI, What's the default status of an I/O Linc Relay in latching mode after a power outage? I don't have the ability to test now. TIA

Hi Michel and everyone here, I have been an ISY user since about 15 years ago. While I don’t have an ISY-26, I do have the ISY-99 still somewhere in a box. I have been a home automation enthusiast forever, though in recent years I am extremely busy with work & I hardly made any posts here on the forum. Still I have been following this forum closely ever since I got my first ISY. Currently I have in use two ISY-994’s plus one Polisy. Though I have only got to accomplish maybe 1% that’s on my automation to-do list ever since. I will try to keep this short since I am literally stealing time from work now, where I have a million things to do. So now to my point: I still remember the times when if anyone brought up a question on the forum, about if any specific old or new technology can be supported by the ISY, it was enough that this technology had anything to do with the cloud to get a big, out of the question, no. No matter how popular that technology was at the time, whether it was Nest, or many others that I don’t even remember. If it was cloud based it was a deal breaker. As the years went by, and things like Amazon Alexa & Google Home came along, Michel slowly changed religion... Somehow the UDI portal was born. I remember how shocked I was when I first heard about it. This was really a 180 turn for UDI. Still the mantra was that UDI believes in local only. If, and only if there is a cloud based product where there is no other choice, UDI provides the option to be able to use that cloud based service. Fast forward, and UDI came out with the revolutionary idea of node servers, Polyglot, Polyglot Cloud, and later Polisy. Again a major change in religion, where a lot of work went in to support many different cloud services. Still the mantra stayed the same, that UDI is a home automation company, not a remote control company, and that UDI supports local control first, and the cloud only when there is no other choice. So people have an option to also use cloud based services if they want to. Along the years, every now & then, someone posted a thread about the ISY’s lack of a nice & simple GUI, and the use of Java. The answer to these posters always was, both from UDI, as well as from most of the ISY die hard users here, that UDI is a small company with limited resources, and the resources should rather be used to invest in improving functionality, i.e. polyglot, rather than wasting resources in making a fancy GUI. Some of those complaining about the lack of a nice GUI were saying, that with all the new WiFi based devices coming out a dime a dozen these days, all “supported by Alexa” with a nice little simple & stupid app to control those lights, if UDI is not going to develop a nice GUI to attract today’s generation, UDI will soon lose a lot of business & become irrelevant. The answer to this time & again was always, that UDI does not & is not interested to cater to today’s young ADHD generation, where they buy 3-4 devices, get excited that they can show off how they can control it from their phones or talking to Alexa, and then after a few weeks forget all about it & move on to the next fad. UDI, the saying was, caters to the advanced crowd, who know better than just controlling a light from a phone. “We ISY’ers don’t do remote control, we do real automation” was the slogan. So we don’t care about having a nice GUI app, and we don’t care about all the stuff being marketed in the last 2-3 years to today’s generation. They are a totally different market that UDI is not interested in targeting. I even remember once how surprised how was, when humble, down to earth, always calm Michel, finally once lost his patience with some naysayer like that, and responded how according to people like him, UDI was supposed to be out of business already 10 years ago but here they are still moving along. Now I never got involved in these discussions, simply because I didn’t have the time to start posting. In addition we all love Michel, and are his die-hard fans, and for good reason, I don’t think there is another CEO of any company in the world like him. I think everyone here will agree with me on that. So when I saw how personal Michel took that, I wasn’t going to chime in. However in the back of my brain I was always thinking, of course I agree & want UDI to stay the course & stay the best & most advanced automation controller in the world. Still, wouldn’t it be nice if UDI can have the best of both worlds? Wouldn’t it be nice if UDI can do both? Develop some simple & stupid nice app with an easy to use setup, geared towards today’s short attention span generation, and be able to sell thousands of devices to the “cloud & remote control” crowd, but also have an advance mode for the old ISY user “automation” crowd? I thought that perhaps contrary to what was being said, UDI would be able to use the $$thousands in sales to the simple folks, to finance the development of what UDI really stands for. Now obviously I don’t run UDI & I don’t know if that would have been feasible, but that’s what I always felt would have been best for UDI’s success. Fast forward to today, and I am shocked to read such a post from our beloved Michel. What happened? A change of religion again? All of a sudden you get scared of the $20 Wi-Fi Switches in Costco, and you don't see what ISY has more to offer? We know how much these devices are worth & how they compare to what we ISY’ers have been doing already for years. They don’t even come close! So please Michel, don’t get discouraged & carried away by all that garbage and don't give up. Now if you want to start heading in the direction that I was rooting for all along, to try to catch both fish at the same time. Cater to the app crowd but at the same time stay true to your roots of the advanced automation users, (which is what I think you were hinting at), that’s something else. That would be great. But please Michel, don’t change your religion on this one. Stay strong, you have a product that no one else does, don’t fall for the cheap stuff and abandon nothing. If anything, as I said, try to do both. Conquer the cheap stuff too, but don’t give up on the real good stuff that made you who you are. I don’t know if I will be able to respond to any replies. In any case wishing Michel & UDI, as well as everyone here a lot of good luck.

Thanks for the reply. Their product line looks very promising, but being dependent on their cloud is a deal breaker for me. No need to look further than what just happened with Smarthome.

Pardon my ignorance, does this node server work thru a local API, or thru a Yolink cloud service?

I have been having those issues for quite some time. I have read somewhere a while ago that this is an issue between Google & Verizon, each blaming the other. It's on my to do list to switch over to use outlook.com as the email provider for sending ISY text messages. I just never got around to do that.

Michel, How about UDI buying them off? That would be the best of both worlds!

I use anydesk.com, which is free for personal use.

Before a storm of replies ensues, based on your responses in the other active thread, you probably meant Network Resources, correct? Thanks

Honestly I never understood why UDI has to provide their own email server for this. Which IP camera brand for example, lets you use their own email server? They require you to set up email notifications using your own email account. All this does is creating a liability & additional support headaches for UDI. IMHO, best thing for UDI would be to give like 6 months notice, and then shut it down. Just my 2 cents.

@Michel, Are you saying that Smarthome has permenantly stopped making the PLM or just that they are out of stock right now? The former would be a very scary development.

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