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Hello, Ive been using Insteon motion sensors for years and though they work well, I’m sick and tired of changing batteries. Does anyone know of a decent plug in motion sensor compatible with the ISY. Thanks! Chuck

Here’s exactly what I’m trying to accomplish: From within my A/V remote control app (Simple Control), I’d like to send a variable change to my ISY whenever a particular activity is launched. The only option I have is to load a URL silently. Unfortunately it doesn’t support sending a post request. So, I can accomplish this over standard http, however it would require sending my login credentials in clear text which I would like to avoid. Is there a better way to accomplish this? Thanks for your help, UDI is the best! Chuck

Is it safe then to embed my user/password into the url rest interface if it’s a local request?

Helo, I’m trying to send a rest command to my ISY to change a variable and know how to do it using standard HTTP, however I don’t like sending my user/password in plain text and also it only works locally unless I port forward on my router which I’d like to avoid. I tried creating an IFTTT resource in the ISY portal and pasting that link into my browser, however I get an error suggesting it can’t send a get request. Is there a better way of accomplishing this task? Thanks, Chuck

If you go to this link from a PC or Mac, you can forget all of your devices. For the life of me I can’t understand why Amazon would remove this feature from the iOS app. https://alexa.amazon.com/spa/index.html#cards

I read today that the Amazon Echo will soon be able to know which room a user is in based on spatial awareness. That said, it sounds like it could open up a whole new world to ISY users. I have had to do a LOT of custom programming via the ISY to accomplish this very thing using motion sensors and variables. Is anyone currently using this new feature? Devs, can and will this new functionality be adapted to v3 of the Home Connect feature via the ISY portal? Thanks, Chuck

With the new iOS app, there is no way to forget devices, only to disable them. Is there another way to accomplish this? Thanks, Chuck

Yes, I do have access to a computer. I would be so appreciative if you could direct me to the right place to accomplish this...

Please tell me there’s a workaround? I can’t imagine what possible reason Amazon would have for doing this. Now I have a total mess in my hands with a bunch of rogue devices which don’t exist any longer. I even tried uninking the ISY skill and the devices remain...

Amazon updated their iOS app and now I can’t find where to forget all smart home devices like before? Why must they fix what isn’t broken?

Bummer. Hoping for sooner rather than later . Thanks for all of your hard work! Chuck

I noticed that the ISY portal has several new options for A/V and looks like it will be the answer to my prayers to gain acess to common requests like volume Up, Mute, etc. That said, I don’t see v3 yet available in the Amazon app. I assume it is not yet available and if so, does it even make sense to start settings things up now in the portal or should we wait until the release of v3? Thanks, Chuck

You’re losing me here. The variable is only being altered via the ISY portal, not the resource. Voice command goes through ISY portal, which then responds by altering the associated variable. Then the “If” statement becomes true and then executes the network resource and finally resets the variable back to “0”. Let me be clear in saying that this system has and does work, I’m only trying to understand why in certain circumstances the program is running multiple times in a given instance. If this were a problem with my program, then the result would be consistently showing up which it is not.

Let me clarify. When I invoke a specific voice command, the portal sets a variable to “1” which corresponds to that command. I then have a program which is constantly monitoring the value of said variable. Once it detects that this variable has changed from “0” to “1” it then calls the appropriate network resource and finally sets the variable back to “0”. This system works perfectly accept for the rogue events where it executes multiple times is a given instance..,

Yes, I have a pretty good understanding of what you’ve outlined, however what’s throwing me off is why sometimes my programs are running multiple times after only invoking the command once through the Echo. If the variable changes from a 0 to a 1, then the program should only trigger once until it resets back to 0 and is invoked again. It’s almost as though the variable is sometimes being changed multiple times from the portal. I suspect if I could trigger integer variables from the portal that this might correct these rogue instances, however that doesn’t appear to be an option...

I considered using integer variables instead, however it appears that the ISY portal only supports state variables

Basically, when I invoke a command, i,e. “Alexa, turn on comercial skip”, the ISY portal modifies a state variable in this case “hb.Commercial_Skip.Switch.On” is set to 1. This then makes the polling program true and simply executes a network resource to initiate the appropriate TCP command to my TiVo. Afterwhich, it sets the variable to 0, making it false, until the command is invoked again. Quite simple, yet I’m having sporadic instances where this and similar programs are being executed MANY times in a row. The only way this could happen is if the state variable is quickly changing and I can’t understand what would cause this condition...

This is one of many very simple programs I use to control my TiVo using an Amazon Echo. I used to use programs instead of variables which worked reliably. I then decided to switch over to variables to clean things up and use the variables to serve double duty between Amazon Echo and Siri. That said, I can’t understand why the program below would ever be executed more than once unless the variable is toggled multiple times... Commercial Skip - [iD 0029][Parent 006D] If $hb.Commercial_Skip.Switch.On is 1 Then Resource '(MED) TiVo - Commercial Skip' Wait 1 second $hb.Commercial_Skip.Switch.On = 0 Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')

I have several ISY state variables which are set via Amazon Echo using the connected home module in the ISY portal. I have also set up programs which monitor the variable’s value and take action accordingly. Intermittently, a program will be executed MANY times instead of just a single execution. Is variable triggering from the Echo via the ISY portal unreliable, or am I missing something simple? This happens approximately 10% of the time. Would I be better off using integer variables? Any ideas? Chuck

Hello, When using the ir blaster (connector 3), how is this specified in the ir code for the ISY network resource? This is the command for TV - Power On (Samsung), does this look correct if I’m using the IR blaster port on the WI2IR? sendir,1:3,1,38000,3,1,172,172,21,64,21,64,21,64,21,21,21,21,21,21,21,21,21,21,21,64,21,64,21,64,21,21,21,21,21,21,21,21,21,21,21,64,21,21,21,21,21,64,21,64,21,21,21,21,21,64,21,21,21,64,21,64,21,21,21,21,21,64,21,64,21,21,21,1673\r\n Thanks so much, Chuck

Interesting read. That said, probably not something most of us will be using...

Interesting. What benefits will that provide users?

Thanks so much for the explanations. After all these years, I should have known this as it makes sense...

I have a question regarding the HTTP port number on the ISY-994i. I have been having some intermittent issues with my WIFI to IR bridge and iRule on my iPad wherby intermittently HTTP commands will stop functioning for a period of time, then spontaneously start working again. After a lot of digging, I stumbled onto the fact that my WIFI to IR bridge utilizes ports 80-82 while my ISY is also using port 80 for HTTP. Could this be causing some sort of a conflict with both devices utilizing the same port or can they coexist? For the time being, I have set my ISY to use port 8080... Thanks, Chuck

I'm hoping someone can help. I have successfully installed Homebridge on my iMac along with the ISY Helper plug-in. All of my devices are recognized and function correctly for a short while usualy 1-2 hours and then all a sudden, all of my devices show "no response" from within the iOS Home app. During this time I can confirm that Homebridge is still running and even stippling and restarting Homebridge has no effect. The only way to recover once this happens is to delete the home from the Home app, then delete the persist and cached folders from Homebridge and completely rebuild all of my devices. Then this scenario repeats... Any ideas? Chuck