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I am using the BWS Systems Hue emulator to allow my echo to control my ISY devices. Everything is working great, but starting about a month ago, I can no longer say "Alexa, set thermostat to 75 degrees". She responds "thermostat doesn't support that". But if I say "Alexa, set thermostat to 75" does does it just fine. Anyone else that uses a Hue emulator notice this?

GREAT idea! I was just thinking about the need to keep updating each year and was not aware of this feature in 5.x. Thanks again...

The only reason I had 2 programs was that I would keep the 1st one always enabled, but only enable the second one (4-9pm) during summer peak rate season. While peak rates are used all year long here, it is only during the summer that the difference between peak and non-peak is significant. But yes, I did start with 2 programs just as you say. Thanks again for the advice!

But what if it has only 1/2 the life they say. I might have to replace this in only 45 years. Thanks for the sanity check!!!

Thanks!!!

I was going to use this feature to update the voltage setting of my AEON HEM v1 (Home Energy Monitor) for better accuracy. The v1 does not have the ability to measure voltage itself (just current using current clamps), but does have a parameter setting to set voltage so that its Wattage calculations are accurate. So I plan to read voltage from an Aeon Gen5 Smart Switch which does provide voltage readings and put that into the HEMv1 whenever the voltage changes by more than 1 V. So far, this seems to send updates to the HEMv1 about 20-30 times a day. My home voltage varies from a low of 119V to high of 125V. The issue is that I worry about all that writing to what I assume is flash memory on the HEMv1. Is there a concern this will destroy the memory after a while?

Thanks for the recommendation, PhanTomiZ! I will dig into this idea. But I have to say, I envy your rates!!! Here is California Bay Area, my peak rates are over 36 cents per kWhr! Your peak rates are well below my off-peak rates!

I am doing some programming to adjust power usage during peak periods since I am on an electricity program that charges more from 4pm to 9pm. I currently have this program to turn off and on my towel warmer in my master bedroom: Mbath Towel Timer - [ID 004F][Parent 0039] If From 11:30:00PM To 6:30:00AM (next day) Then Set 'Scenes-Inside / MBath Towel' Off Else Set 'Scenes-Inside / MBath Towel' On Is it OK for me to leave the above program active, and add the below program that is active only during summer months (the 4-9pm peak rates only apply during the summer)? Mbath Towel Timer Summer Peak - [ID 0003][Parent 0039] If From 4:00:00PM To 9:00:00PM (same day) Then Set 'Scenes-Inside / MBath Towel' Off Else Set 'Scenes-Inside / MBath Towel' On If both are running, will there be any issues? I am assuming the IF statements are only evaluated at their start/end times, and that they are not evaluated in between. For example, at 4pm, the second program will turn off the warmer. The first program will not turn it back on, because it will not be evaluated again until 6:30am the next day, right?

If you will post screen captures of the network resource setup, I can look over them. Many people have run into this and every time there is a small error in something they had in their network resource config.

In this case, do not put the variable in the network resource. Instead, create 2 network resources. One for unlocked and one for locked. Then run a program that triggers locked sentence network resource when variable is 1, and unlocked sentence network resource when variable is 0. I only use variables in the resource itself when the values make sense, such as temperatures.

Wow, I am impressed that anyone has gotten to the 302 device limit!!! You, sir, are a true power user! But I am curious, how did you determine that there is a 302 limit?

Great! And I will definitely try the raw text. I have the way the formatting gets changed when editing the line! EDIT: jndsoccer, you are right!!! The Raw Text mode does work much better. I changed the How To to reflect this and gave you credit for the find.

I see you still have ${var.2.17} in there. Do you have that variable defined? If not, delete that reference. But everything else looks right.

Does this show up in the pop-up box when doing the 'Test' of the resource? If so, please copy and paste your network resource info so I can view it. Screen capture would be fine. Also, double check you are using Mode:C-escaped and Select Content Type: application/json

What version of ISY are you on? As I recall, you might need to be on 5.x in order to read z-wave values into variables.

I use the name "House Fan Low" for low speed. Alexa accepts: "Alexa, turn house fan on low" Which to me is very natural. Do NOT include the 'on' work in the name in the portal. Just "House Fan Low". I also have Medium and High. I also have just "House Fan" which I also set to medium.

If you use a State variable, you can simplify this: If 'Temperature / Upstairs Main' Temperature is > 0 Then Resource 'RespMainTemperature' Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') This works because State variables are only evaluated upon change. So if it changes, the IF becomes true and the THEN is executed. Well, so long as your temperature remains above 0. You could put > -255 to be safe!

I see your problem. You probably purchased a male and female Echo and left them in the same box too long. This is where Dots come from.

Sorry, memphis, I was traveling. But yes, you would create 2 network resources and trigger each one via a program so that the phrase is updated as needed.

My Dots are about 10' apart, and they still always both respond to any command. Frustrating. This is the entire reason I bought more Dots, but the feature is just not working for me. I need to have several in the Kitchen due noise from fans and appliances that make it hard for 1 Echo to reliably recognize commands. EDIT: well, if I put them about 12 feet apart, they do work as they are supposed to. Kind of add that they have this much of a distance required, but I guess it is done for some reason. Also, even 6 feet apart, they will work if there is a lot of background noise.

lets see. Buy 5, and get 20% more for free ($50 value / $250 purchase price). Or buy 6 and get 16.67% price reduction (50 savings / 300 value). I am going to demand the 20% free. I will refuse the 16.67% price reduction. I am so smart.

Working here. Another thing now offloaded from my RaspberryPi!

ESP is not working for me. Just got my new Dot and placed it next to my existing (gen 1) Dot. Both on same account. I ask time, they both answer and not in synch. Software version on Gen2 Dot is 561179520, on Gen1 Dot is 4172. What gives?

No worries. But do pass your thanks along to the people at 3PO-Labs who made all of this possible. They are doing it for free because they like what we are doing with Alexa for home automation.

Still odd. But fix your userID as I noted above (I editing my response with that catch) and see if that helps at all. Also, try shortening the <speak> command. just delete some of the words to shorten the sentence. Too long of a POST message sometimes causes problems.