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+2 on the RainMachine

2.5 mm mono for sure.

I believe that should work fine, assuming there is good RF connection between the remote and the hub.

Maybe this helps. As you noted, there are 2 blaster outputs on the hub. There is also a blaster in the hub itself, so that is 3 blasters total. There is also the option to use the IR in the remote itself if you have line of sight, so that's 4 options. Some devices can be set up to use IP instead, so you don't even need IR.

Oh wow. How did I not realize that this existed. Been playing with it the last hour or so. Fantastic!

Hopefully I'm making this more difficult than it is and/or there is a simple solution. I'm only going to describe one scenario, but I have others. A solution to this scenario will help me with all of them. I use a Smartthings hub strictly to be able to access the Home Control buttons on my Harmony Elite remotes. The Harmony Home Control button is a Virtual Switch on Smartthings, which in turn triggers IFTTT, which, through ISY Portal, controls a physical Insteon wall switch in my ISY. Because it is a physical wall switch, it can and will be used too. Which means I have to synchronize the press of the Insteon wall switch back to the Smartthings hub in order for the Harmony to show the correct state of the light. I accomplish this through the ISY Network Resources and IFTTT. It works, mostly. Sometimes, if I turn the light on and then off too quick with the Insteon wall switch, it goes into a loop. There is a lag in all of this because of IFTTT. So if I switch the physical Insteon wall switch on and off too quickly, that is, the off signal is sent to Smartthings before the first on signal from Smartthings has come back, I now have a flashing light. I'm not sure if I made this understandable, but I hope so. In the quick on then off scenario described, I need a way to hold back the off from the ISY from being sent to the Smartthings hub until after the on signal, that will inevitably come from the Smartthings hub, has come through to the ISY.

Thanks @apostolakisl So far, this is same conclusion that I've come to.

Yeah, I don't know either. But I haven't tried it yet.

@giesen Thank you very much for finding that. It looks like an interesting possibility. Way over my head, but I will probably give it a go anyway. @Jimbo Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you have to use the Home Control buttons for Hue. I want to use the other buttons and screen.

I think it's more about the challenge rather than whether IR can do it or not.

Thanks for the comments. I swear, this has become the search for the Holy Grail for me. I thought the Android Box solution was at least a solution that would work, even if extremely round-about. But not having any experience with an Android Box, it wasn't until I really started to think it through... How does Harmony communicate to the Android Box? It appears to me that it is IR, so that puts the kibosh on that. If I was going to go IR (which I'm not), it would make more sense to just use an extender (as suggested) and use the ISY IR. The search continues...

I'm like 99% sure the ISY can still be selected as a Device on the Harmony Hub (Elite). That said, my ISY is not in the vicinity of the Harmony Hub, so IR isn't practical and more IR is not really of interest to me.

I'm curious if anyone has worked out a way to get a button press or screen press to control the ISY. I'm NOT talking about the Home Control buttons at the bottom of the Elite remote, but rather the AV buttons and the screen. I saw a youtube video tutorial where he was doing it, but man, what a long process. He used: Harmony -> an Android box running "Button Remapper" (never used it myself) -> Tasker (never used it myself) -> Join (never used it myself) -> IFTTT (webhooks to his lighting system) I already know how to go from IFTTT to the ISY, so that part is do-able, but adds a few more steps to this already very long process. Anybody have a shorter solution?

Thanks @io_guy and @paulbates for the help. I did get this all sorted out with your help.

Debian 9

Thanks Paul. This really helped and I have it running now. What I'm still not able to fix (because I know virtually nothing about Linux) is the "startup script" portion of this. I fumbled around and did figure out how to see what was in the /etc directory. There is indeed no rc.local file. Paul, you mentioned "sysctl"... there is a sysctl.conf and a sysctl.d in /etc. I also have Polyglot (and only Polyglot) installed on this same machine and Polyglot does start automatically.

Here is what I'm getting when I run the script in the first post: tim@NodeServer:~$ sudo curl -sSL http://automationshack.com/Files/install.sh | bash [sudo] password for tim: ### Installing dirmngr and updating to offical mono repo dirmngr is already the newest version (2.1.18-8~deb9u4). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Executing: /tmp/apt-key-gpghome.ZysqtzpMZD/gpg.1.sh --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 3FA7E0328081BFF6A14DA29AA6A19B38D3D831EF gpg: key A6A19B38D3D831EF: 2 signatures not checked due to missing keys gpg: key A6A19B38D3D831EF: "Xamarin Public Jenkins (auto-signing) <releng@xamarin.com>" not changed gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: unchanged: 1 deb http://download.mono-project.com/repo/debian raspbianstretch main ### Updating System - this may take several minutes All packages are up to date. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. ### Installing mono and relevant dependencies - this may take several minutes libmono-system-net-http-formatting4.0-cil is already the newest version (4.6.2.7+dfsg-1). libmono-system-net-http-webrequest4.0-cil is already the newest version (4.6.2.7+dfsg-1). libmono-system-net-http4.0-cil is already the newest version (4.6.2.7+dfsg-1). mono-vbnc is already the newest version (4.0.1-1). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. ### Creating directory mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/home/pi’: Permission denied bash: line 31: cd: /home/pi/node: No such file or directory ### Downloading NodeLink /home/pi/node/NodeLink.exe: No such file or directory ### Modifying startup script sed: can't read /etc/rc.local: No such file or directory sed: can't read /etc/rc.local: No such file or directory ### Starting NodeLink ### Install complete. Login to NodeLink at http://192.168.1.108:8090 tim@NodeServer:~$ Cannot open assembly '/home/pi/node/NodeLink.exe': No such file or directory.

I guess because I've never had a reason to learn what Docker is or how to use it.

I'm running Polyglot on a Debian Virtual Machine, not on a RPI. Will NodeLink not work in this same environment?

Yeah, "Start / Stop a program" does sound weird, and not really accurate. Really it is just run Then or Else branches of a program. So no, not enable/disable a program. Rather, "on" would run the "then" which would be (for example) a series of NR calls to turn some things on, and "off" would run the "else" which would be a series of NR calls to turn things off. Thanks for all the advice from all. I'm going to group the buttons in a scene and use the Status from one of the buttons and that should work well in my situation.

I want to be able to start and stop a program by pressing any of several insteon keypad buttons around the house. I've read other threads about why it's not allowed to use a scene as a condition in program. Logically this stance makes sense and I agree with it. So what would be the proper way to do this? Obviously (I think) the keypad buttons would be grouped together in a scene so they would turn on and off in unison. Would I just pick one of the buttons (device) and use that in the program condition? I've tried this, and it seems to work in my limited testing so far, but it's not very elegant, IMHO. Maybe I'm overthinking this. I'm on 5.0.14.

Thank you for the explanation. I see it now! This should really help.

I have no idea what that means. Sorry.

I thought I remember reading way back that version 5 would include greatly improved calendar/scheduling processing capabilities. I'm on 5.0.14 and just looked and I don't see anything improved in this respect.

Hoping someone here has the knowledge I need! I've been playing around the last couple days with Postman and the ISY's Network Resources to try and do some controlling of my Sony UBP-X800 DVD player. What I can find from Sony on the interwebs is really only applicable to receivers and soundbars (or so they say). Sony API Reference But I know the X800 is capable of at least some (if not a lot) of control via APIs and I ran "getSupportedApiInfo" and got that list. I've managed to turn the X800 off and on, but I'm stuck beyond that. Ultimately, what I'm wanting to do is start the Pandora app, but for this discussion it could be any downloaded app that I have on the X800. That is to say, I'm not trying to play or control a DVD, at least not at this time. If I could directly start an app, that would be great. I can also start an app using cursor controls if I have to, as this is what I'm currently doing via my Harmony Elite and Hub. I ran "http://192.168.1.xxx:50202/appslist" and I see Pandora in this list, if that is of any help. <app> <id>com.sony.iptv.5836</id> <- This seems like it might be something helpful <name>Pandora ®</name> <supportAction> <action>start</action> </supportAction> <icon_url> http://static.internet.sony.tv/bivl-ww/static/service/icons/service_396/x133.png </icon_url> </app> The 2 APIs that I got from "getSupportedApiInfo" that look promising are "setPlayContent" and maybe "presetBroadcastStation". The X800 says it supports them, but I can't figure out the exact syntax to run them (in Postman) without getting an error. My best guess is that I need to use the "uri:" parameter, but I can't find any examples of what to use for the X800.