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TrojanHorse, Re: variability -- I don't want to make this too complicated. Whatever alarm goes off first sets the Good Morning scene, and that's it. That would be enough to make me happy. Our schedules do change often and day to day, so trying to predict wake-up times and pre-programming them into the ISY would be a wasted effort. Re: Motion sensor - We don't want the Good Morning scene set if someone wakes up to use the bathroom an hour before the alarm goes off. Or of the dog moves from one pillow to the other. I'm suspecting you're right, there is no easy solution. But thanks to everyone for the feedback.

Thanks all for the great feedback. As Gary noticed, we're an iPhone family -- and making my wife switch to an Android is not my idea of increasing the WAF for this installation However, since I don't yet have the ISY or the Mobilinc app, I'm open to suggestions that don't involve switching phone platforms. Too bad there are no obvious ideas. I'm not necessarily asking my phone to do everything for me (ie, trigger the HVAC several minutes before the alarm) -- I would be willing to settle on "When alarm triggers, notify ISY" or similar if that's what I could get. I guess since Mobilinc already is interfacing with the ISY (for the geofence feature) maybe I could query them about creating their own built-in alarm clock that also includes a trigger to ISY. Seems like a trivial task...

I thought of that, but I don't want any hard-coded wakeup times. My wife and I can wake up at different times depending on work schedules, and these vary from day to day or week to week. Basically, everyone already has a flexible and intuitive way of setting an alarm to wake them up (in "ye olden days", a clock radio next to the bed -- today, just the alarm clock on your iPhone) -- I want to leverage that existing device so we don't have to take any more steps.

I'll be adding an ISY to my (limited) Insteon system soon, mostly to control exterior and holiday lighting, but (as my wife warms to the system) hopefully to also control HVAC. One feature that's important to me is for the system to make decisions based on who is home and whether we are awake or asleep. From what I've read in this forum, the geofence feature of the Mobilinc HD app will give me the location-awareness that I'm looking for, and I can set up a KeypadLinc to trigger a Goodnight scene (adjust the HVAC, etc) when we go to bed. However when we wake up in the morning it would be really nice if a Wake Up scene could be triggered without us having to press another button -- after all, my phone already knows when I'm waking up because I set the alarm. In a perfect world, the heater should have been set a few minutes before I wake up. Does anyone know of an app (maybe another feature of Mobilinc itself?) that can send this alarm trigger to the ISY to set the Wake Up scene?

Think about when you go to bed at night, you reach over to your alarm clock and adjust the alarm time for the next morning. It would be great to have something that quick and easy to tell your home automation system what time you want to wake up tomorrow!

Now to do something really slick: Is there a way to use a variable for the time (instead of the 0600 above)? Then you could make this a true alarm clock, where the system knows what time you want to get up and takes appropriate actions (ligths, HVAC, music, etc). (Of course, that would also mean you need an easy way to select/change an alarm time, maybe some kind of GUI interface?)...