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Thank you for that. I had looked at CQC awhile back, but didn't get too far with it at the time. I spent a good part of the day yesterday with it and made some good progress. Very cool product. Way easier to use than OpenHAB. The wall I came up against is that there is nothing that can be read from the Harmony Hub except the current Activity. So, I can trigger a scene on the ISY if an Activity or PowerOff is selected, but there is nothing that can be done (that I can see) for a button press on the remote. This is of course no fault of CQC or the ISY. So back to my first post... I'm wondering if there is some other "hub" that the Harmony Hub nativly communicates with that could in turn issue an IFTTT trigger? I may pick up a Smartthings Hub at Home Depot this week and see if this is a possiblility. Unless someone can already tell me my idea won't work. Jimbo, I have not ruled out ISYHelper, but if I can get something "off the shelf" that will meet my needs, it will be much easier for me than learning RPi and everything else that goes with it.

C'mon. Most of you guys and gals are way smarter than I am. And I just know that some of you have knowledge of some of these other hubs that I mentioned. Certainly more knowledge than I do. Is there any hub that is currently supported by the Harmony hub (SmartThings, LIFX, PEQ, Qivicon, & Insteon hub) that could send out IFTTT or REST commands to the ISY? If the answer is no, please just let me. If I have no idea what I'm talking about, let me know that too! The ISYhelper sounds like a possibility, but it also sounds WAY more difficult and involved than I want to get into.

I'm going to have 4 Harmony Elites and hubs that will be in different parts of the house, and my ISY will be in the equipment closet. So, of course, the question becomes, how to get the Harmony hubs and the ISY to communicate when they are not in close proximity. I bought the IR module for my ISY in anticipation of this project, but now that I'm starting to think it through, I don't know exactly how I'm going to get the IR signal from the Harmony hubs to the ISY. Everything seems like such a kludge... There are "IR over IP" products and "IR over coax" solutions. There are various IR extenders that convert to RF and then back again. All these "solutions" require more little boxes, more wires, and more wall warts. The very very big frustration with this scenario is that both the Harmony hub and the ISY are already on the LAN. So why is this so complicated and messy! Why am I having to use IR at all? I know the Harmony does not directly support the ISY other than through IR. I've read the threads here and how Michael has tried to work with Logitech, but has not had any luck. But still, there has got to be cleaner way to do this. I know both ISY and Harmony hub are IFTTT capable, but the Harmony hub has no triggers (yet), so that won't work, at least not directly. But what about some of these other hubs that I see that the Harmony does work with? I see SmartThings, LIFX, PEQ, Qivicon, & Insteon hub in the Harmony Home Control Device list. Are any of them IFTTT capable and can send a trigger? I'd be willing to buy one of these other hubs if this would work. I don't know what most of these are, or how any of them work, but maybe some of them can send an IFTTT trigger? If so, then an ISY scene could be run without using IR. Thoughts?

Lol. Me? Stubburn? I do believe my wife would agree with you on that.

Well, I'm sorry, but I don't know what to tell you. It sure looks to me like you selected a scene in your test program as evidenced by the ".scene" in the "In Scene" section of the action. I have a device there. The same device as in the "Set" portion of the action as I do in the "In Scene" portion of the action. And it works. You either have a scene selected or a different device that curiously has a name ending in ".scene". I'm at v4.5.4. I have no idea what v5 looks like.

In the "In Scene" dropdown there is a list with both devices (that are controllers) and scenes. Despite the label "In Scene", you need to select the device in order for this to work

Thank you everybody. Especially zerop for walking me throught it step by step (post #26). I got it working and it works perfectly. I never dreamed this would stir up so much discussion! I really had a hard time wrapping my head around zerop's solution, but it does work. My apologies to those who offered the same solution, but then I didn't grasp it.

I'm at v4.5.4. The pulldown that larryllix is trying to show me definitely is not there.

As I said in post #7: "Your first program looks like what I want to do, but I don't have "On Level" or "Ramp Rate" in my list. Is this a version 5 thing?"

Just a follow up as to where I am with this. I set the On Level [Locally Applied] to 25%. I have a Scene with the On Level at 100%. And I have this program: Master Bath Day - [iD 0009][Parent 0001] If From Sunrise To 11:00:00PM (same day) And Control 'Indoor Lights / Devices / Master Bathroom' is switched On Then Set Scene 'Indoor Lights / Master Bathroom' On Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') It works okay, but I don't like the lag due to the program kicking in when turning on the light during the day.

I tried that, but it turns the light on. I want to turn the light on with the paddle tap.

I don't understand how adjusting a scene is applicable, as this is the actual switch paddle that is being tapped. There is no scene involved. It's the local control that would need to be adjusted.

I thought of that too. I was thinking there might be a better way.

I want the light in the bathroom (which is operated by an Insteon switch) to work "normally" during the day, but at night, I want it to only come on a little bit. The program I made doesn't work right because the light comes on full and then dims to the level I want. I need it to only come on a little bit during the scheduled (nightime) hours. So, tap the switch during the day and it comes full on. Tap it at night and it only comes on a little bit.

Thanks bgrubb So, 1 vote for Autelis. I was really hoping that some of the heavy hitters around here would chime in with some sage advice. Maybe they don't have pools?

Wife and I recently purchased a new (to us) home with a pool, and I'm looking for advice on the best direction to go with integration with Insteon and my ISY. The control system is a Hayward/Goldline Prologic, version 2.86. So far in my research, I have come across: Hayward AQ-CO-SERIAL Aqua Connect Home Automation Serial Interface Hayward AQ-CO-HOMENET Aqua Connect Wireless Home Network Device (but it doesn't look my software version support this) Autelis PC100HG Pool Control for Hayward/Goldline Maybe there is another product that I haven't found that is the way to go? I'm just looking for some advice from someone who has been down this road. Which path is the right path? Thanks Tim

I found that black electrical tape = happiness

My wish would be that they would produce a screw in module with a chain control. Everyone knows what to do when they see a chain hanging down under a lamp shade.

I'm in the exact situation the OP describes. We will be putting our home on the market soon. I just can't see leaving it behind, or even having it installed when showing, because the chances of a potential home buyer also being a HA hobbiest are slim to none. But I too consider leaving it behind because I'm interested in installing micro modules behind standard switches in our new house. What I think I'm going to do is take it all out and put everything back to "normal" and then sell what I can on ebay. Then buy new stuff for the new house.

Thanks. That worked. Just FYI, I did not have to make any router changes for either this issue or the clock issue. That is, I did not add 8.8.8.8 to my router. Thanks again!

Okay. The DNS field was grayed out, so I unchecked Automatic. I entered 8.8.8.8 in the DNS field and hit Save. An error window popped up "Invalid Subnet Mask"

Linksys E4200 Pretty much straight out of the box. I did add one entry in the Single Port Forwarding table for Mobilinc.

The local telephone provider - SureWest (Roseville, CA)