Kentinada

I only see 4 entries there. I don't see a way I can paste in a screen shot or I would.

Revisiting this topic... I have a program that sends me a txt when the garage door is opened or closed based on code in my post on 10 Jan 2014 above. But when I look at the code now, it looks like this: If Control GarageDoorSensor is Switched On and Control GarageDoorSensor is NOT switched Off Then Send Notification to '5' content 'Garage Door Open' Else Send Notification to '5' content 'Garage Door Closed' And I can't figure out for the life of me how this works! I don't know why there is a "'5'" there. I don't see my phone number defined anywhere in the ISY994a configuration so I'm not sure how I'm getting a text. I haven't done anything with this code in almost a year and I'm struggling now to come back to it and understand why it works. Any help would be appreciated.

I have an ISY994 running V.4.0.5 software. My house currently has 4 heating/AC zones each with its own programmable thermostat. I am considering replacing them with INSTEON thermostats so I can control them remotely through my iPhone. Do I just need to buy 4 INSTEON 2441TH thermostats? Any guidance would be appreciated. Thanks.

Thanks. That led to the solution.

My ISY994 apparently got messed up in the switch to daylight savings time because my lights weren't on this morning. When I tried to connect to the Admin console through my browser (Safari or Firefox) I get this error: Missing Application-Name manifest attribute for: http://192.168.1.10/web/insteon.jar I tried resetting the power on the ISY but I get the same error. Suggestions?

Why are both lines in the If test required to make this work? It seems like I should be able to just check the status of the GarageDoorSensor to see if it is Off or On but this code does not work without the 2nd condition. If Control GarageDoorSensor is Switched On and Control GarageDoorSensor is NOT switched Off Then Send Notification to 'Garage Door' content 'Garage Door Open' Else Send Notification to 'Garage Door' content 'Garage Door Closed'

That was exactly it. The sensor was about 1.5" from the magnet when closed. I thought the instructions said it could be over 2 inches but no matter. I moved the sensor closer to the magnet and it now stays Off in the closed position. Thanks!

OK so I get the 226L-3 switch today and put in the sensor. I used the red and black wires to connect to the ioLinc as instructed in an earlier post. The Garage Door-Sensor is an On state regardless of the position of the door. When the door is closed, it goes to Off briefly as the door reaches the closed state and then goes back to On. When the door is opened, it quickly goes to Off and then back to On and stays On. Is this expected behavior? I thought with this new switch, the sensor would read On if the door was closed and Off if open. Or did I get that backwards? No matter though, it reads On all the time with momentary shifts to Off.

I mounted the magnet of the original switch to the top of the garage door as well. Wonder if I can just leave that only when I get the 226L-3 and just put in the wired contact?

That is the way I mounted the switch that came with my ioLinc so I guess I'll do this new one the same way. Thanks.

Does anyone have a decent diagram of installing the 226L-3 switch? The 1 page manual on Smarthome just says it mounts to the floor but I'm not sure exactly what they mean. Any help would be appreciated.

I just got my SL-SM226L switches but it only has a green and black wire. Did I get the wrong switch?

Whoa, I'm going to have to have to chew on that one a bit.

Well as I said, I ordered a new switch and will install when it comes but if I was comfortable using backward logic so to speak, I could still do this with a scene couldn't I? Turning the scene on would close the door rather than open it. Am I missing some subtle point?

In my iPhone in the Mobilinc software, I have a geo fence defined and the state variable Kent's_iPhone_Home is defined and says it will have a value of 1 in region and 0 out of region. My ISY994i has under Programs/Variables/State a variable called Kent's_iPhone_Home and has a value of 2. 1. Are these the same variable? 2. Why does the ISY have a value of 2?

Xathros, Could you possibly shed a little more light on why the new sensor/switch will allow this to be done with a scene rather than a program? Thanks, Kent

Beautiful! This works great. Thanks very much.

Do I have it right that if I want to trigger some actions (turning lights on or whatever) when the garage door goes up, that I must have a program running on my ISY994i that is continuously checking the status of the garage door relay? Maybe the program does a wait of 1 minute but it must loop back and check again. Is that the only way to monitor a device status?

Right now, the duration on Momentary B is set to 2 seconds and it seems to work. I also ordered one of those SECO-LARM NC switches. Thanks.

Xathros, Again, thanks for the quick reply. OK I've changed the Sensor to Momentary B and I now get On for closed and Off for open. Where do you get a NC switch to replace the NO switch?

And this is the status of my Sensor as seen from the Options display. See the attached file. It's in a Latched mode. Should it be in Momentary A, B, or C? If so, which?

Xathros, thanks for the quick reply. I thought I'd be able to test to see if the door is open or not but based on the status always showing ON, I don't think I can do that, can I?

I just got the INSTEON Garage Door Control Kit and I have a couple questions. 1. Adding this to my ISY994 added 2 devices: Garage Door-Relay and Garage Door-Sensor. I assume that is expected. 2. The Garage Door-Relay device stays in the On state and to operate the door, I have to send on OFF command followed by an ON command. Is that expected? 3. I made a simple program to do the OFF and ON sequence in #2 but is this the way this is supposed to operate? Thanks.

No ballasts or transformers. I reset the APs and things seem to be working so far. Is it correct to say I don't really need APs if I now have dual band devices working on both legs of my electrical service? Do they serve the same purpose as the APs? Do APs do anything that dual band devices do not? Thanks.

Never heard of that one. I'll look that up. Also, do you have to add APs in pairs? Does it make sense to add a 3rd AP at a point in the house that is not close to either of the 1st two?