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This worked great! Problem solved, Routine now does all desired actions. Thank you.

But I continue to appreciate everyone's effort to try and find a solution. Hopefully the answer will help others and not just me!

Unfortunately this string is getting drawn out long enough that information in earlier post is being overlooked. My Kitchen Night Scene has worked flawlessly from the Admin Console, Keypad Buttons, Mobilinc for several years. My Alexa voice command has worked flawlessly since the ISY Portal has gone live. There is just not enough background about the Alexa Routine to explain what limitations it may have when dealing with Devices and Scenes.

My Kitchen Night Scene in the ISY Admin Console controls the settings of 31 different devices. Turning this sceon ON, regardless of whatever the current state of those devices are, the scene results in all main lights being turned off and certain above/in/under cabinet lights to be set at a 25% brightness level and also sets the keypad button states to match. Turning this scene OFF, will set every device in the scene to OFF. In theory, I could try and recreate this complicated scene by attempting to add each device separately in the Routine, but that defeats the purpose of having a scene.

I simply want the Routine to activate an existing ISY Scene that I have set for my Kitchen lights. I can't use an Alex group because different lights in the kitchen are set to various on/off/brightness levels. The Alexa Group appears to be an all on/off only option.

The Routine runs either by voice or via manually activating it in the app. However, the command that the Routine will “Turn On Kitchen Night Lights to 100%( or whatever) Brightness” doesn’t result in any changes to my Lights. The commands to Lock my Locks do do work, so I know the Routine runs. Do I need a Routine? No, but I think all of us here enjoy trying to maximize the utility of our home automation systems. Perhaps I’m highlighting a bug that needs to be addressed. I’ll continue to use my separate voice commands for locks and lights until I figure out what is causing the failure of the Routine to work. I have a gut feeling it is an Alexa software issue and not related to the ISY portal, but I’m not a developer with access to the Amazon folks.

Yes. All my ISY (and Harmony Hub) scenes (and Devices) show up properly in the Smart Home section of the app. What is driving me crazy is that when editing a Routine, selecting Add Action, selecting Smart Home, the list of items under the Control Device and Control Scene pages do not match what is listed under the "root" Smart Home section of the app. Under Routine, the Control Scene only list "scenes" controlled via the Harmony Hub (activities and assigned channels) and the Control Device list doesn't include any of my Insteon devices. Only zwave door locks, thermostats, Sonos devices, and my Rainmaker irrigation zones are included. I have also tried going into the ISY Portal and changing my Scene Kitchen Night Lights to a Light. After rediscovery, Kitchen Night Lights is listed under Routine as a Device and I can add it to the routine. However, when running the Routine, the Kitchen Nights Lights are never activated. My Door Locks activate just fine. But no matter what brightness level is chosen for "Turn On Kitchen Night Lights", none of the Kitchen Lights ever change. Hopefully I have explained this issue thoroughly enough that someone can point out what I am doing/setting wrong.

Does anyone else notice the list of scenes when creating a Routine doesn’t match the scenes in the basic section of the Alexa app?

I'm not stuck. My scene isn't working with a routine. See post #1 and #14 for full details.

Has anyone successfully added a ISY Scene (that sets the on/off/brightness of several devices) to an Echo Routine? If so, how did you do it? How do you have it configured in the ISY Portal? Where does it show up to in the Alexa app to when adding it to a routine?

Michel, This is a Kitchen Night Scene I have used for years activated by Insteon keypad buttons. It works flawlessly from the admin console, MobiLinc, etc. It has also worked flawlessly when added to the ISY Portal and activated via voice with the Echo. In the Alexa app, the only Scenes that appear on the Routine setup "Control Scene" page are those associated with the Harmony Hub. None of the ISY Portal Scenes are listed here. Instead all of the ISY Portal Scenes are listed on the Control Device page. Using the Alexa app to add it to the Good Night night routine results in no action. However, the activation of my zwave locks work just fine. I tried changing the Kitchen Night Scene in the Portal to a Device but it too did not activate when added to a Routine.

That's been done with no effect. Sorry, should have listed that as part of my troubleshooting.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Everyone. Trying to configure my Good Night Routine. I am running V3 of the skill and use the ISY Portal. I have a Scene that sets certain lights in the kitchen to low level and turns others off. The scene is controlled via several keypad buttons. The Portal was originally set up with the Kitchen Night Light as a scene and using voice control has worked without error. Tried to set the Good Night Routine with the same scene and nothing is activated. Tried changing the Scene in the Portal to a Light. It is properly reflected as a light in the Alexa app and responds to both the app and voice control without error. However, the Good Night Routine still will not activate the Kitchen Night Lights (regardless of brightness selected). Anxious to get this figured out as there are several routines I would like to implement. Thanks in advance for any help.

Just recieved a new Beta signup from Sonos yesterday. Survey included questions regarding Echo/Dot ownership and a list of Home Automation protocols (including Insteon) that are being used in the home. I expect this round of Beta software to include this much desired integration with Sonos. Last round of Beta lasted 3-4 months if that is any precursor to when it might go live to the public.

@blueman2 I understand you may be using macros assigned to buttons via the configuration app. Can you detail how you have set up and used it? Thanks.

Tremendous work! The individual device buttons now are assigned without error. I am not a coder and am amazed at the system you have put together. I am just able to learn the bare minimum needed to make my system work. A couple of questions to allow me to properly make use of your great tool: I noticed when I assigned my receiver Volume up command (obviously just pulled from the Harmony "database") your app's Device Editor has 2 Press URL boxes and the top (assume it is ON) listed Volume UP and the bottom (assume it is OFF) listed Volume down. (your doc file calls this the antonym entry) Would it be best practice to simply use the Friendly Name "Volume" and tell Alexa to Turn On Volume to increase and Turn OFF Volume to decrease? As for the Blueman's capability to essentially create a macro, would that mean I just need to unlock the button's URL and string together multiple button press codes? If so, what is the format I need to follow? If that works as I think, I guess I could create channel macros for my favorite channels and simply use the channels name to execute, is that right? At first I didn't think I would need to run multiple emulators, but now that your tool is working great and has more functionality, I may need to figure out how to set up multiple ones with BWS's latest version (unless the old limit of 25 on the hue is not a factor anymore) I'm glad all my issues and questions are keeping your retirment active and aren't a thorn in your side! Cheers mate!

Finally got a chance to install your latest version. Startup went without a hitch. All activities are now seen and are working (fairly) well with the Echo. (The activities run fine, but Alexa responds that it could not contact XXXX - go figure - not a problem with your app.) One of the best things is that the Harmony remote does respond as well so that the remote screens change to reflect the status of the activity. The only issue I'm having now is when I attempt to assign a device "button" to the emulator, I get the errors shown in the screen shots and captured in the logs which are in the zip file I attached. I have hopes of using Echo to make voice changes such as Vol Up/Down, Mute, Play, Pause, etc. But it doesn't look like it would be possible to send a string of numbers in order to change channels. But I can easily live with just the activities being voice controlled if this final issue takes too much of your time. Thanks again. AWS_JSON.zip

SUCCESS! I can see everything as expected. However, I won't have a chance to configure and update the Echo until Tuesday or Wednesday. I'm attaching the latest files so you can see how it worked. Many Thanks! AWS_JSON.zip

Barry I know you've been working hard, but unfortunately no luck with this version. I fact it now fails during the retrevial of Harmony Activities and aborts and shuts down. I'm OK if you no longer wish to put anymore time into this since the user group is so small. I appreciate all you've done. I have attached the log and JSON file. AWS_Alexa (3).zip

Thanks Barry. I see the ini changes now. Sorry about that. Attached is a zip with those two files. Best regards. AWS_Alexa (2).zip

I will add that I notice the error pops up just as the script gets to the line: "HRM getting list of activities from Harmony. . ." Although I don't know exactly what the error message means, it appears that it is not able to properly segment all the data coming from the Harmony in order to read the list of activities properly. Comparing the log section for the Harmony activities with the section for Harmony devices, I would have expected to see a list of activites following the lines associated with HRM Data. Below is the list from the Devices section, there is nothing like this in the "Getting list of activities" section of the log - the next section of log recording (HUE initialization) starts right after the line: DBG HRM Full message received, length=100155 bytes HRM Editing response to reduce complexity for the parser HRM Harmony System contains 13 devices HRM Device(1): label = PS 3, id=12961157 HRM Device(2): label = VCR, id=12961156 HRM Device(3): label = Wii, id=12961154 HRM Device(4): label = HD DVD, id=12961152 HRM Device(5): label = Light Controller, id=12961158 HRM Device(6): label = Xbox 360, id=12961153 HRM Device(7): label = Sony PS4, id=16254444 HRM Device( : label = Marantz AV Receiver, id=27074162 HRM Device(9): label = erod Curtains, id=17126354 HRM Device(10): label = Direct TV HD DVR, id=16255005 HRM Device(11): label = Projector, id=12961160 HRM Device(12): label = Xbox One, id=16253513 HRM Device(13): label = Vizio TV, id=13986894 I hope this helps. (No, there actually isn't an emoticon in the log file!)

The error pops up early in the start process. After selecting OK, the startup continues and finishes (error problems many versions ago always resulted in the app never finishing to start). I can confirm that the log file is created each time the app the is started. Looking at the error message, it doesn't seem to have words that match anything to do with my activities which is the only thing not showing up once the app finishes loading. It looks more like items associated with device commands. Its just strange.

Installed newest file with the same result. I've attached my ini file for your review. There currently is no JSON section listed so I wasn't sure what the code should be. Also, I needed to add the section HUE HUB and Process line as they were not originally there. Any chance your latest ini is truncated and missing sections that were mistakenly removed in the revision process? Thanks again for your time. AWS_config.zip

Thanks for the prompt reply Barry. Changes made and log collected. Please let me know if you need additional info. AWS_Alexa.zip

Thanks again Barry for your time and effort. I rebuilt my pi with the latest Ha-bridge 2.0.7 and updated your configuration tool and ini file. I'm only running the HA-Bridge for its support of the Harmony Hub since I found I don't really need multiple emulators. I get the following when I start up your app. Below is the log AWS Configuration System version: 5.0.77 Started at 06/04/2016 09:51:26 AWS Emulator Configuration System is starting, Debug mode = All PnP A UDI ISY994 was declared to be at location 192.168.1.45:33317 PnP System located 1 Emulator at adress 192.168.1.75:8080 HRM BWS Systems HA Bridge version 2.0.7 HRM Harmony Initialization Process Beginning, time now is 09:51:26 HRM Editing response to reduce complexity for the parser HRM Editing response to reduce complexity for the parser HUE Initialization Process Beginning, time now is 09:52:12 ISY Initialization Process Beginning, time now is 09:52:14 ISY Starting the construction of ISY_myFolders, time=09:52:19 ISY Construction of ISY_myFolders is complete, folder count=12 ISY Starting the construction of ISY_myDevices table, time=09:52:19 ISY Construction of the ISY_myDevices is complete, Total Devices = 160, Registered Devices = 160 ISY Starting the construction of ISY_myScenes, time=09:52:19 ISY Construction of ISY_myScenes is complete, Scene count=58 ISY Starting the construction of ISY_Programs table, time=09:52:19 ISY Construction of the ISY_Programs is complete, Program count=79 ISY Starting the construction of ISY_Variables table type=Integer, time=09:52:19 ISY Starting the construction of ISY_Variables table type=State, time=09:52:19 ISY Construction of ISY_myVariables is complete, Variable count=17 ISY Initialization Process, Completed, time now is 09:52:19 MSG Setup complete, System Operational. *********************************************************************************************************************** The app shows everything associated with the ISY with no problem. However, the Harmony does not list any activiies. But the devices and bridges I've set up are shown. Perhaps I have something configured incorrectly.