Michel Kohanim

Hello everyone, First, I must sincerely thank Amazon for their dedication in being one of the most professional and success oriented companies with whom I have dealt with. It's been quite a refreshing experience. Amazon has enabled the Connected Home feature for ISY on a Beta basis and here are the instructions for enabling it: 1. Login to alexa.amazon.com 2. Click on this link 3. Login to your Amazon account and ISY will show up in your app under Connected Home 4. In the Echo app, go to Settings | Connected Home and then choose Discover Devices. This will bring in all the devices you have created a mapping for in your ISY Portal Please see this link for more detailed instructions. Please note that since this is beta, only the first 450 will be allowed access. Edit 01/24/2016- NO LONGER IN BETA!!!! Everyone is welcome. Please provide feedback. With kind regards, Michel

Hi larryllix, Yes, we are planning on making almost everything node based including Weather. With kind regards, Michel

Hi Broyd, If you have 4.4.2, when you click on Change Location, in the DST Rule drop down choose "None". In 4.3.26 (and below), simply uncheck Day Light Saving checkbox. With kind regards, Michel

Hi Broyd, That's correct. Basically, the DST Rules defines when DST should be applied and unapplied. There's also a rule of NONE which means that no DST rules are applied. From what you are explaining, it seems that Crestron does not observe any DST. i.e. the time never changes. Is that correct? If not, then we will have to make a new rule just for Crestron. With kind regards, Michel

Hi James, Unfortunately there are NO INSTEON/MS APIs that can let you know whether or not the motion sensor is setup for Dusk/Dawn. With kind regards, Michel

Hi Joseph, Please upgrade to 4.4.2 (http://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/17732-release-442-beta-is-now-available/) and make sure you have 4.4.2 UI (Help | About). Once there, click on Change Location, choose the closest city to São Polo, and then enter the appropriate latitude and longitude. Please make sure DST Rule is set for Brazil. With kind regards, Michel

Hi GeneInSoCal, It's been quite disappointing especially given the $$$ we had to spend to get certified by a third party and ONLY for SDG&E. This was back in early October of 2015. Have not heard anything back and I just sent them another email. With kind regards, Michel

Hi Waketech, Unfortunately not natively. If you have the Network Module, you can use the dynamic/custom file content (http://wiki.universal-devices.com/index.php?title=ISY-994i_Series_INSTEON:Networking#Dynamic.2FCustom_Page_Creation) and have a program that logs those values (substitution variables) at your predefined intervals. With kind regards, Michel

Hi David, It seems that ISY has a hard time communicating with that specific device. What type of device is it and what's the load attached to it? With kind regards, Michel

Hi GeneInSoCal, We pass Zigbee certification testing for SDG&E(and paid $$$ to do so). Then, SGD&E decided that we still have to go through their IT certification and we are still waiting! With kind regards, Michel

Hi Orest, It shall be done. With kind regards, Michel

Hi chammerbeck, I am sorry to hear. We are waiting for Amazon to certify our connected home implementation and the skills are going to be fixed (we have a call with Amazon next week). With regards to recurring fees, HUB, and SmartThings, I do agree with you. As I have mentioned before, ISY is not for those who want simple command/control and dependence on the cloud regardless of recurring fees. Good luck. With kind regards, Michel

Hi larryllix, Since there's really no way to figure out how long it takes from device->PLM communications, I would venture to say that it would probably very similar (not the same) and perhaps more since the PLM has to look through its database to find the device. So, the larger the number of devices in the PLM, it would take longer. But, it should still be in milliseconds unless there's something wrong with the PLM. With kind regards, Michel

Hi Mike, Thank you. We do know Echo has problems with light, lights, bedroom. For instance, I had to use "master room" for bedroom. So, what you might want to try (instead of light) is "room". With kind regards, Michel

Hello everyone, Please note that communications from ISY->PLM->DEVICE->PLM->ISY will take at least 1 second (500 m.s. minimum for communications from PLM to Device). With kind regards, Michel

Hello all, We are all anxious. We are going to have a call with Amazon next week as the skill (slots) are not working very well. In short, Echo has a hard time filling in slots and sends an empty slot. That's why you might get repeated "which device" WITHOUT "I cannot find x, which device?". I shall keep everyone posted. With kind regards, Michel

Hi Drexx3, No worries at all. Please do keep us posted with what you find. With kind regards, Michel

Drexx3, We have purchased multiple copies of MobiLinc and there are 100s of users using it now with ISY Portal. And, you have not thrown away any money. We have a money back guarantee with no questions asked so, I urge you to send an email to sales@universal-devices.com and request for a refund. With regards to the variable question, MobiLinc is using cached version of the configuration. Uninstalling, rebooting, and reinstalling it fixed the issue for some but not for others. With kind regards, Michel

Hi ronbo, Are the missing scenes inside folders? If not, would you please send /rest/nodes from ISY to support@universal-devices.com and let us know which scenes are missing? With kind regards, Michel

Hi eagleco, I am so very sorry. Yes, it was down for 10 minutes. With kind regards, Michel

Hi jddiebolt, Thanks so very much for the update. With kind regards, Michel

Hi wojo, I am not sure what we will be checking for. Would you please submit a ticket with your UUID? With kind regards, Michel

Hello MWareman, Thank you for the feedback: 1. The spoken fields are no longer propagated to the portal since they would require a Refresh 2. Programs are going to be there shortly 3. Whatever you used to have should still be there 4. Yes, we should be able to search based on type What do you mean by encoded? With kind regards, Michel

Hello everyone, Just a quick comment: If Alexa says that it didn't find x in your library, it means that it's reverted to Connected Home: that prompt is not coming from ISY Portal. So, please make sure you verbalize the TO strongly. i.e. Alexa tell izzy TO ... With kind regards, Michel

Hello SirParadox, Thanks so very much for the update and I am so very glad you got it working. You are always welcome to submit a ticket to support@universal-devices.com at any time. With kind regards, Michel