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i liked lutron but they don't have an inwall plug, ugh

thanks, that is why I am looking for alternative I have had reliable system for over 10 years untill I removed about 10 switches and now it isn't. I only need about 4-5 switches now and looking to go to wifi switches or something and use my home assistant. I may end up keeping my insteon and just try and add more switches and access points even though I don't need them

thanks, I am looking into converting to zwave.

I haven't messed with my isy994 in years just chugs along. I wanted to add a dimmer switch to my lights and went searching and can't find any parts online anywhere, all out of stock. Even here the ISY994 is out of stock. I pretty much only have a few switches now is it time to replace with something else?

its a transformer

yeah event viewer has nothing around 10pm but then I cleared it, I missed your msg about posting here. I will check back in morning with it and see. Thanks again for the help

Thank you I will look into it when I get home but just one question. Why does it always work turning it off with mobilinc vs a program or alexa? If noise was issue wouldn't it not go off with mobilinc?

I have found sometimes some of my devices will not go off as expected with scheduled events. For instance my yard lights come on at correct time but they do not go off at 10:00pm as scheduled. If I tell alexa to turn them off it confirms it but does not turn them off. The only way I can get them off is to go to mobilinc and turn off manually. Why would mobilinc work but not others? How can I troubleshoot this? As you can see the last event evaluated true but didn't turn off

Cool, thanks for all the replies, I am trying the time node server and seems to have what I want.

yeah my timezone is set correctly, these are just my observations that I have noticed. Sunset just isn't the correct time to turn on the lights. I have always just done sunset plus 1.5 hours but right now it is dark about sunset plus 30 mins. Winter time works perfect summer not so much.

when we are in DST the sunset it pretty accurate for turning on porch lights etc but when we aren't I have to add an hour to sunset time to because it isn't actually dark yet. Is there a way to check for DST?

awesome thank you for all your help

got it back for now 24hours later. One more question you mention that antifreeze.loop should be disabled. So when it disable and you call the then statement it will still run the then? It seems like when I tried first time with it disabled it didn't run but who know. Just want to confirm that disabled programs can still have the "then" statement executed. Thanks

thanks for all the help, unfortunately I lost power at 7pm and has been out since. I had to drain everything. Let's hope it survived.

You mentioned program wasn't making sure everything got turned off. If it goes above my set point how is it turning off the pumps, etc... it only stops the loop but the pumps are one won't they remain on?

thank you for the help I will try it out

thanks for reply, the pool temp comes from my wireless thermostat that I tied into pool water supply. When I mean it never goes off I mean the equipment never goes off. Yes I disabled program.

I wrote this to try and prevent my pool equipment from freezing but it never goes off and don't know why. Everything turns on but nothing ever gets turned off. What am I missing? Antifreeze - [ID 002C][Parent 003E][Not Enabled] If 'PoolTemp' Temperature < 29.0° Then Set 'Pool Equipment / SpaValve' Off Wait 15 seconds Set 'Pool Equipment / FilterPump' On Wait 10 seconds Set 'Pool Equipment / Polaris' On Wait 10 seconds Set 'Pool Equipment / Waterfall' On Wait 15 minutes Set 'Pool Equipment / Waterfall' Off Wait 30 minutes Set 'Pool Equipment / Polaris' Off Set 'Pool Equipment / FilterPump' Off Set 'Pool Equipment / Waterfall' Off Repeat Every 2 hours Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')

I just upgraded from 4 to 5 and I would say at least 50% of my programs have yellow icons and when you click on they say "not loaded" under activity and under status it says "out of memory" how do I fix this? Thanks

I've been using udi device for over 10 years and I have noticed that some of my timed events don't always turn off. For instance my yard lights will be on when I wake up and if I tell Alexa to turn off yard lights it is acknowledged but the lights don't go off. But, if I go into Mobilinc and turn it off manually it goes off immediately every time. So why is it some of my devices don't turn off at their scheduled time and don't turn off with alexa commands either but 100% of time turn off with Mobilinc? I would say this happens 5 out of 7 days a week.

I have been reluctant to automate my pool heater for years because I didn't want to find out my pool had been heating when I didn't want it to or temp not be right. After getting a Echo I decided to go ahead and make the move. After some tinkering I got the programing to work the way I wanted. When the thermostat called for heat it would turn on and off as needed based on if the thermostat was calling for heat or not. I got relaxed in checking up on the programming and let it run for a little more than a week. When I checked it again the pool was 99 degrees though the thermostat was set for 89 degrees. Of course it had to happen. Why was the thermostat calling for heat when it was set to 89 and the actually temp was 99? The only way I could stop it was to turn the thermostat off, lowering the temp did not turn off call for heat. Can't wait to get my gas bill. See below the two different times I checked the thermostat and both times it was set to 89 and still calling for heat when was 10 degrees above it.

are the log times and system times supposed to be different? When I look back at the programs that ran last night they seem to be coming on at right times(system time) but when I look at the logs they are off, does the log use GMT time or something. You can see the sunset times for today which won't be far off from today and not even close to times in log DrivewayLightsOn - [iD 0028][Parent 0027] If Time is Sunset + 45 minutes Then Set 'YardLights' On Set 'DrivewayLight' On Set 'HangingLights' On Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') DrivewayLightsOff - [iD 0029][Parent 0027] If Time is Sunrise - 30 minutes Then Set 'DrivewayLight' Off Set 'FrontPorch' Off Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') HangingLightsOff - [iD 004F][Parent 0027] If Time is Sunset + 3 hours Then Set 'HangingLights' Off Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') YardLightsOff - [iD 004A][Parent 0027] If Time is Sunset + 5 hours Then Set 'YardLights' Off Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') YardLights On Thu 2017/01/05 05:03:05 PM Program Log DrivewayLight On Thu 2017/01/05 05:03:05 PM Program Log HangingLights On Thu 2017/01/05 05:03:05 PM Program Log YardLights Status 100% Thu 2017/01/05 05:03:05 PM System Log DrivewayLight Status 100% Thu 2017/01/05 05:03:06 PM System Log HangingLights Status 100% Thu 2017/01/05 05:03:07 PM System Log HangingLights Off 0 Thu 2017/01/05 07:33:05 PM Program Log HangingLights Status 0% Thu 2017/01/05 07:33:05 PM System Log YardLights Off 0 Thu 2017/01/05 09:33:04 PM Program Log YardLights Status 0% Thu 2017/01/05 09:33:04 PM System Log

yeah that's what I don't get, if Heat Ctl' is switched On and Heating = 1 are both true then it turn on else it turn off. I thought that if the if statement wasn't true else always fired. I mean when I write in c# that's how it works. Please explain, does it have to do with it being control?

set point is well above the temperature yet it's not calling for heat? Is this typical? I also noticed when the Heat CTL changes it's not triggering my events.

I'm finding when the thermostat turns heat off it is not turning off the heater, how reliable is "Heat Ctl" and am I using it correctly. Its like when that changes its not kicking anything off because when it should have been off I right click and chose "run if" and it turned off as it should If $PoolHeating is 1 And Control '1F.11.34 - Heat Ctl' is switched On Then Set 'Pool Equipment / SpaValve' Off Set 'Pool Equipment / Polaris' Off Wait 1 minute Set 'Pool Equipment / FilterPump' On Set 'Pool Equipment / PoolHeater' On Else Set 'Pool Equipment / FilterPump' Off Set 'Pool Equipment / PoolHeater' Off Set 'Pool Equipment / Polaris' Off Reading the log it says it turned the thermostat "off" but it is not off when I look at it