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When I tried to set up my Canadian address last night, after reading Pooch15's post, Alexa initially rejected it! So I wondered if it only worked for larger cities ( I live in a somewhat rural area!). So I then tried Mississauga's (Ontario) City Hall address... and it worked! Then I went back and tried my address again and it now worked! I also just tried the Waterloo City Hall and it works too. In fact, when I only put in the address, without the country or postal code, Alexa came back and suggested the correct postal code! (see attached pic) Note that after Alexa accepts my address she changes the Device Time Zone Region to North America and the Time Zone to Eastern Standard Time (Atikokan) which is not the correct time! I manually changed the Time Zone to Eastern Daylight Time (New York) to get the right time.

Nice... Thanks. It works nicely

Interesting question... I had no idea so I counted them... I have 297 programs!! 77 variables and 177 network resources. I'm using a 4 core 3.2GHz processor.

LOL... I guess I wasn't specific enough... that was 9 seconds and 42/100 of a second.

I was curious so I just timed my backup... It took 9:42 seconds to load the Admin Console, from the point where I entered the userID and password. To start from scratch, it took 20:50 seconds to start the Admin Console, bring up the ISY Finder, choose the correct ISY, open the Admin Console, enter the userID and password, and load the nodes. This can obviously vary based on my speed to select the ISY and type my credentials... The backup save to file took 2 minutes and 54 seconds. Not a lot of time to avoid recovering unsaved changes!

I just saw this on the Locative site... the site will be shutting down by mid May 2107!! https://blog.locative.io/bye-everyone-df01871fe949 Are there any other options out there?

I also have the Somfy blinds with an Autelis controller... I have a program, called "Blinds"; the THEN statement closes the blinds and the ELSE opens them . In both cases, like Stu, I am using the a network resource. What I have found works is "Alexa, start the blinds" which causes them to close. "Alexa, stop the blinds" causes them to open. The "start command works reliably, but the "stop" command sometimes needs repeating. What I have found is that I have to say it like "stoptheblinds" with little or no pause between the words... otherwise she hears "stop"!! At least, I find this command more intuitive than "turn on the blinds"...

In blueman2's post #31 he stated Actions include: ask begin do launch load open play resume run start talk to tell use give me can you give me Has anyone been successful in getting "Give Me" to work? I have tried numerous times (similar to intelihome's experience - post # 80) and cannot get Alexa to respond to "Give Me". Despite having deleted the "Tell Me" skill that I originally created and creating a new skill "Give Me", Alexa only responds correctly to "Alexa, tell me the inside temperature"! Edit: corrected the post # reference

An Update... Realizing that Alexa wasn't understanding "tell me" in the first place I went back to the basics of the setup... and when I asked her "Alexa tell me what is my id" she gave me a different id key than I previously had!! I thought that the id key only changes if I delete the skill but presumably it changes for other reasons, not that I know what I did to change it!! Now my using "test" on the network resource and asking Alexa for the inside temperature works... yeah!!

"Clear as mud" Yes it is... If I read your comment correctly you are now saying that "test" runs the network resource the same way that a program does but that you are assuming that the value of the variable is zero and therefore I am giving nothing to Alexa to work with (she doesn't like zero!). However, I explained that I populated the variable with a value 74.5 and therefore my running "test" should pass that value to her regardless of whether the variable is invoked from a program or "test". Does this make sense or is there truly a difference between running "test" and calling it from a program?

I don't want to beat this thing to death... but are you saying that the "test" function does not in fact run the network resource and that invoking that same resource from a program does run it? If so, is there some documentation you can point me to that explains the difference so I can understand this better? My program that I tried had the >= operator and still yields the same result.

I'm still confused on this... if my THEN statement is simply calling the same network resource that I tried "test" on then why do I need a program at this stage? I fully understand the need to use a program, going forward, to make sure that Alexa is aware of temperature changes but I cannot see a need for it now... unless running it from a program does something different than the "test" function! As an aside, I ran it from a program and I still have the same result. I think that somehow Alexa hasn't picked up the "tell me" skill! I am using a "state" variable. You can see that in my network resource ${var.2.20}

Ok I will try doing this... but am I wrong in my understanding that the "test" function doesn't send the current value to the cloud hosted service? In any other use of the network resources I have always used the "test" to see if the resource actually works! Isn't "test" the same as actually running the resource?

I am using a state variable and I gave the variable a value of 74.5 manually, so this should avoid the zero value issue. However, as my last post seems to point to, Alexa doesn't seem to understand the "Tell me" command!

Hmmm... I'm not sure what you are suggesting! I haven't created the programs yet. I manually populated the variable. I understand the "test" function to be running the network resource the same way it would run if called from a program. The second part of your comment is interesting... Alexa stumbles on the "Tell me" part... here is what she shows me: There is no response for this input Tell Me There is no response for this input {"intentName":"GETRESPONSE","variables":null,"state":null}

No... in the thread, blueman2 acknowledges that Raw Text works and keeps the body in a readable format. As an aside, I did try it anyway and I got the same result!

blueman2... great write-up. Thanks for doing this. I am looking for some help with getting my setup working. I'm on v5.0.9 and following your instructions a "test" of the network resource yields: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 17:02:09 GMT Content-Type: application/json Content-Leng However, when I say "Alexa tell me inside temperature" she responds with "There is no response for this input". I have attached a screenshot of my network resource if this helps... Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong?

Forget that POST!! I know how to do that!!

Interesting!! How do I edit the Network Resource to insert "/api/location/<insert key here>/report/in" I have not done that before??

Just to close the topic, support resolved the issue for me. I am now up and running

Michel... It makes sense that I would need to buy the Portal for each ISY. Thanks.

Thanks... I have setup the Geofencing using the ISY Portal node server occupancy module. So far my testing has mixed results... I can see that the leaving and arriving times on Locative are accurate and being recorded. However, I have programs, on the ISY, that notify me when I leave or arrive based on the node being True or False. So far I am only receiving some of these... it hasn't seemed consistent! However, it is quite possible that it's due to things I am doing wrong! More testing required... unfortunately, this is not an easy thing to bench test!! I have to leave and reenter the fenced area and look for an email... I can't ever see the node being "False" on the Admin Console, since I am home and it shows as "True"! I will continue to test... A question... (I am fairly new to the Portal, and I am trying to understand the concept of "Users"...) can I add my wife as a Portal User and, with Locative on her phone, set up a Occupancy Location (Home) Node and separate Names (mine and hers) sub-Nodes such that when either of us are "Home" the Location node would show as True, or if we are both away the node would show as "False"?

I installed the ISY Portal today and I tried following the various instructions... - I set up my account at my.isy.io; - I did "Add ISY" and entered the uuid of my ISY; - I went to the Admin Console / Configuration / Portals and see "Portal Integration - UDI; OnLine & Registered"... however I do not see a request for access from your account in ISY Portal! - The Portal shows " ISY never connected" Other info: - I am running firmware v 5.0.9 (also installed today) - my ISY connects to my network using DHCP; - there is no port forwarding - I am using TLS 1.2; Strength = All; and Verify not checked Any ideas on why this isn't working? EDIT: In the error log I see numerous entries like the following: Mon 2017/04/10 10:16:36 PM System -140008 Portal-SECR:404 I don't know if this is related to my inability to connect the Portal to my ISY!

I recognize that some of these issues may have been discussed numerous times before but I have seen conflicting information on some so I felt that it is prudent to ask a few questions, before I head down this road... I have 2 ISY's (home & cottage), both on v.5.0.7. I just purchased a Amazon Echo so I am looking at the ISY Portal. My questions: - I previously had the Mobilinc Connect Portal, although I haven't used it in a year. It still shows as 'active'. In order to use the ISY Portal, am I correct that I need to send an email, with my uuid #, to "support@universal-devices.com" to request that the Mobilinc Connect portal be deleted from my ISY? - I continue to use Mobilinc as my main method to access my ISY's via my iPhone. I connect to both using a DDNS service and I rely on the Geofencing to update my state variables which trigger numerous programs. This feature works very well. I have read conflicting information on the ability to use Geofencing with Mobilinc and the ISY Portal! My understanding is that if I want to continue to use the Geofencing ability after installling the ISY Portal, then I have to continue to access my ISY's with Mobilinc using port forwarding (or DDNS service) and not try to use the ISY Portal... Is this correct and does it work? - Do I need to buy the ISY Portal for both ISY's?

Update... I rebooted the router and the ISY again and so far no errors. I find it odd that despite rebooting them both yesterday, the errors continued until this second rebooting. Oh well, hopefully it will continue this way.