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I was trying to set a state variable by sticking it in an then statement and leaving if blank and it worked but at weird times all my state variables would get set back to 0. The reason I need to do this is that Mobilinc for android doesn't support variables so I wanted a way to change variable from 0 to 1 and vice versa. Also, how can I track down what was changing my state variables??

Cool even better, I woke up thinking about this morning that it would never go off. Thanks

This what I have so far which I think is close, which I think it will actually turn on the fan for 10 mins every 30 mins or is it 40 mins? If Status 'Thermostats / Downstairs Thermostat' is Mode Cool And $Vacation is 0 And Time is 12:00:00AM Then Repeat Every 30 minutes Set 'Thermostats / Downstairs Thermostat' Fan On Wait 10 minutes Set 'Thermostats / Downstairs Thermostat' Fan Auto Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') then at 6:00 am set it back to fan auto If Time is 6:00:00AM And $Vacation is 0 And Status 'Thermostats / Downstairs Thermostat' is Mode Cool Then Set 'Thermostats / Downstairs Thermostat' Fan Auto Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')

Hey guys, I want to have my ac fan turn on every 30 mins after 12:00am till about 6:00am each night. It gets stuffy in my room with the door closed and I want to see if that helps a little. Once my house cools down at night my ac doesn't turn on that much so I would like to just manually turn the fan on/off every 30 mins. Could someone point me in the right direction for a program. Thanks

Yeah normally they just go all out at first

Robin that has nothing to do with what I'm trying to do, you obviously don't understand. My alarm works just fine thanks

thanks that got me all fixed up, working smoothly. was stuck on scenes and didn't even think of using program to control it. appreciate your time.

no sorry, explained it wrong. When I click off button on RL on a-c the fan goes off but the Off led on the KPL does not light up. All the LEDs on KPL a-d go out. I'd like the d on the KPL to light up which is the off button for fan when the left button on RL is pushed.

Everything worked great, thanks for such and in depth tutorial. I had never really messed with responder/controller and this helped me understand it much more. Thanks. Only thing I did differently was not add button d of remotelinc to the scene d, I wanted to use that for turning my light off and on which works fine. Since I can turn the fan off and on by pressing the left button of a-c I left d alone to control the light. Everything works fine but if I turn on the fan the led's come on correctly on the KP linc but when I press left button on remotelinc the fan goes off but the off/led does not come on. Is there a way to do it like this? Is there a way to create a few scenes for a-c and tell it to turn on led when I press left side only?

mine is v.41

Wow, thanks. I"m gonna give it a whirl and let you know how it goes.

I've been reading up on how to setup my new fanlinc with a keypadlinc along with remotelinc but really can't find a current answer on how to do it properly. Can someone please tell me how to set this up so they all work together and the led's etc are all correct when selecting from different devices. Thank you.

Ok I'll do that saturday, I bought a filterlinc to put on that battery backup that is on that circuit. I had it unplugged during the setup/testing so couldn't have affected it. I did notice though, with the storms last night and the power going off several times that when I woke up the leds were off. I'll test more on saturday. Thanks

I just bought it two days ago so figured it would be latest but will check. So should led backlight be checked or unchecked to turn the leds off?

I updated my firmware to 3.3.5 and linked my fanlinc to my system and went to set options and unchecked led backlight but my led's do not go off. I've tried checked and unchecked. the system is communicating with the fanlinc because I can turn it off and on. Also, I had a remotelinc2 buttons linked to the fanlinc before I linked to isy99 and it was lost after I linked. What's the procedure to get the fanlinc linked to isy99, remotelinc2 and keypadlinc? Do I need to do all my programming in the isy99 and not manually link the buttons? I was a little confused on the linking process. Thanks

ok thanks for all the help, I'll see if I can track down any communication issue and monitor it for a bit. Once I'm comfortable, I'll try and capture state of lights...

Not that I know of... I did notice that the status wasn't right though at one point. Not sure why but after I ran query the status was correct. I'm starting to get confused now Maybe I should explain my setup and what I'm trying to accomplish. I have an I/O Linc that is attached to my GE Concord Output 1 via the status port using a 5v relay to close the circuit of the status port of the I/O Linc when my alarm is sounding in my house. Before when I was on X10 the concord automatically flashed all the lights in my house so I'm trying to replicated this using my insteon devices. So when my alarm is tripped and the circuit is closed I want my lights to blink and when it is normal I do not want them to blink. Then I started thinking could I store the state of each light as a variable somehow and restore them back to their original state after the blinking occurred but at this point I just want it to function without and can tackle that once I get the general operation resolved. What does trigger reverse do?

If I turn on say fireplace light and then run "query all" the light is turned off by the program below... To me if status is not "On" it will always run the else statement any time a query is run. Seems to work that way on mine. If Status 'Alarm Sensor' is On Then Repeat Every 0 seconds Set 'Fireplace Light' Fast On Set 'Living Room Fan Light' Fast On Set 'Front Porch Light' Fast On Wait 2 seconds Set 'Living Room Fan Light' Fast Off Set 'Fireplace Light' Fast Off Set 'Front Porch Light' Fast Off Wait 2 seconds Else Set 'Fireplace Light' Off Set 'Front Porch Light' Off Set 'Living Room Fan Light' Off

Thanks Tim, so looking at the program if I change it to "if alarm status is on" then blink else turn off it would would turn off my lights everytime a query is run wouldn't it? Because by default the alarm status is off so it would be running my else statement every time a query is run. Or am I wrong?

I had a question about my thermostat and using it in auto mode. From what I read everyone says to use the thermostat in auto mode so I have been but I was setting a scene up where the heat setpoint and cool setpoint were almost the same and I heard to keep two degrees difference but in my case I want them to be exact or actually cool lower that heat but now that it is cold what will happen if I set my heat setpoint to 74 and my cool setpoint to 72. Will heat come on and then once gets to 74 it will turn the cool on? Should I handle this? Seems like even if I could take out of auto but would have create way more scenes for winter and summer??

My alarm went off this morning when kids opened doors and saw that the lights never quit blinking. I have implemented the saving of the state of the lights yet but I was wondering why the lights didn't stop blinking. I looked at the alarm status and said off but the blink program('alarm') was still running and I had to click stop in mobilinc to stop the blinking. When looking at the if statement I was wondering how it even works. I have an I/O Linc connected to my alarm and when it goes off it should change the status to 'On' and when not in alarm it will be 'Off'. I can't figure out how it even works and isn't 'Is Off' the same as 'Is not On'? If Status 'Alarm Sensor' is Off And Status 'Alarm Sensor' is not On why wouldn't it just be If Status 'Alarm Sensor' is On

ok thanks, I must not know about this feature. Guess I need to read up some more on what all this thing can do. Thanks for the help

After I updated firmware and removed old thermostat and readded, both thermostat show and extra three nodes now for each but I don't see how they can be used. When you click on them they the only one that isn't blank is ac cool. Is this normal?

so your saying both my thermostats should have the three extra nodes if they are v2's? if I click on one of the red nodes there are no options for them, that's normal? THanks

I added a second thermostat today and was fixing to add a third but wanted to get this resolved first. After I added it added the thermostat and three other devices also associated with it. When added the first of course it didn't do that, only added the one thermostat. How do I fix this? I'm on firmware 3.2.1 Thanks You can see the first four objects are what was added.