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As a complete newbie to AI, I spent a bunch of time yesterday figuring it out and eventually writing a plugin. Some of the "basic" steps that aren't well documented for those of us w/o in depth tech knowledge are as follows: 1) I used Claude Free desktop AI to help guide me through a lot of the steps, which needs just a FREE account 2) After you have the free Claude account, you need to go to https://platform.claude.com/dashboard and add money. I did $20 and turned OFF auto reload. 3) Once you have the money loaded, go to the left panel and click on Keys and Access and create an API Key. Copy it and save it somewhere or in a clipboard. 4) In the Eisy-AI plug in, go to configure, then Configure Help and copy the WHOLE JSON listing. I found it was then easier to paste it into a simple text editor, while I then added my API key from above in TWO spots as noted. Then copy and paste that WHOILE new JSON into the one line on the configuration page. Be sure to include the beginning '''' and ending ''''. 5) then hit save and restart the plugin..It will show up as a node. But to use it, click on the "sparkle" icon in the far upper right of the top line in Eisy UI, just to the left to the Sign Out box. This will open up the chat dialogue box in which you will interact with Esiy AI. In the bottom right of that box under the three dots, you can switch between Developer mode (for writing plugins) and Customer mode (for writing programs etc.) Both worked great! I continued to use the free Claude Desktop app to help guide me in writing my first plug in in Eisy AI. Worked great. See this post for lots more of my experience. https://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/47495-first-experience-with-eisy-ai-success/#comment-410041

@Javi Sorry, was traveling. Will send via DM shortly

am not sure how / what that is or how to get a copy of it for you .. can you be more specific? thanks

@Javi I have two doors on RATDGO plug in and three doors using Elk contact sensors and Elk outputs to run a factory car style remote controller via soldered wires. Am not sure what it is you want to see, but if you can be more specific I can send it. thanks.

Agree, they are different. and to my point and @nowandthen 's orriginal post, we arent finding a great amount of usefullness of the large amount of real estate dedicated to the left half because of the tree nature vs a full sort. Just feedback for your use.

yes and on a Mac I could Command click for discontinues items and it worked fine in selected them. --> Shift-click is used to select a range of adjacent items, while command-click allows you to select multiple non-adjacent items individually. Both methods can be used in various applications on a Mac, including the Finder--<

It will be nice to be able to shift / option click on multiple devices to move at once, like in the AC.. Doing things one at a time can become laborious quickly. Had an issue with HUE plug in migration casein me to have to add mall my Hue lights back to many group / scenes. Was a PIA having to do each one separately.

@Javi I tend to agree that the three columns on the left are "less than useful".. But not because I dont use them, but because of the way they present. My biggest use is to sort by address and then scan down the list for Nodeservers that are offline, or Zwave devices that are offline. But those columns dont let you do it effectively due to folders. The work around I have found is to click on My Lighting at the top, and then on the RIGHT half of the screen, select sort by Addresses. This gives me a clean sort and allows me to quickly scan for Disconnected or problem nodes or node servers. Therefore, my point is that I DO use the address / status columns, but NOT on the left side due to folders not getting sorted into the whole list. So the left side is semi useless to me as well, while the address column on the RIGHT side IS USEFULL.

@Techman just did the IoX update and the expand / collapse arrows are there... However, not only are they not working with nodes, but in programs, it isnt expanding all of them... seems to miss about 20% It would be nice if each click on the arrows, expands one layer at a time and vice / versa.

Strange. I am on the latest there as well, with one exception of IoX, which I wouldnt think would have that fix in it. Will update soon and see if it fixes it.

Where are you finding the collapse / expand all for programs? I am running 1.4.6 of UI and dont see it anywhere? @Javi Also, when you right click on a node and select GET INFO... there is no BACK arrow.. so you have to start all over by selecting nodes and starting all over at the top of nodes.. Similar to @Techman "remember request" above, it would be nice to take you exactly back to where you were.

I was able to migrate my RATDGO successfully. From earlier post above: RATDGO: Moved it back over. All looks good, but does not work. Moved it back to PG3X. Did not work there either, and also did not have the proper names. Moved it back again into Eisy. Went to a program that calls the open / close and made a change to it, saved it, changed it back to its original, saved it again and it is finally working. Looks like I will have to do this to all the programs

@Javi Sorting question: Within a Group, all the nodes are sorted alphabetically. However within the scene of the controller, they are not. They appear to be in the order added. Can this list also be alphabetical? I have many scenes with >20 nodes in them and the "random" sorting makes it more difficult to find the right one to adjust. thanks. Group in alphebetical order: Scene, not in alphabetical order:

Someone from UDI would need to answer that. But my impression is that they are all inclusive backups now covering all parts fo the system where-as in the past we had to do it in several steps to get it all. The only one I am not sure about is whether or not the old PGX3 Dashboard / backup is included. The names of my backups are: eisy-backup-2026-10-22 09.49.32.zip And here is the "output" verification of the complete backup:

In Mac Safari, under Settings / general, you can select Ask for each download for the location.

The whole folder sub folder collapse and expand features are terrible still in UI. It is MUCH more time consuming to trouble shoot issues due to difficulty in navigation.

Also a basic copy program to clipboard feature. I always do a backup to a text file of my programs or for posting in the forum.

This is a NEW concept to get our heads around. It makes more sense to me now what I am looking at in the "Group". It was very confusing until I read this. Nope I need to go and look at some, create some and make this sink home a bit. It makes more sense of a "group" name vs a scene. Thanks for the explanation!!

it wasnt working until I did the latest upgrade earlier today. I can't verify 100% its working but it appeared to be at first glance. I also see that already there is another update since this morning.. Continued mentions of plugin transfer work etc. Would suggest doing a backup via ui, plus pg3x backup via ui / pg3x / Dashboard / backup (the old way), then do the latest update. Check things out, and then do ANOTHER BACKUP with the newest system, and then try moving iAqualink again. cheers.

They are intermixed now with all the nodes.....they have a different symbol: Personally, I preferred them listed separately at the bottom as in the AC. They were much easier to find Two way around this that I am contemplating: add them all to a new Folder called SCENES or change my nomenclature method to add a special character in front of all scenes to allow them to be sorted together Just havent gotten to it yet.

Solved with the latest versions. Plugin migration is working.

Solved with lates versions:

@bmercier FYI. see previous post..https://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/47269-eisy-ui-backup/#findComment-408632 Am fully up to date: Retrying: RATDGO: Moved it back over. All looks good, but does not work. Moved it back to PG3X. Did not work there either, and also did not have the proper names. Moved it back again into Eisy. Went to my program that calls the open / close and made a change to it, saved it, changed it back to its original, saved it again and it is finally working. Looks like I will have to do this to all the programs. TimeData: Moved it back to Eisy.. Shows as OFFLINE.. did a Query on the node server node and that kicked it back on line. HUE: migration worked this time. No apparent issues. Notifications: migration worked this time. No apparent issues. ELK: migration worked this time. No apparent issues. GREAT JOB in fixing the issues!!

@Ross So far the migration of plugins has been less than a stellar experience. I have had to revert back: Notifications, Ratdgo, HUE, TimeData and Elk Ones that I have not migrated due to known issues: ST inventory, Meross, Matter. Others that have required some or significant program fixing / intervention: KASA, SUN, WEATHERFLOW, iAqualink Ones that have worked first try w/o issues: Russound, Holidays, YoLink, Ring, and WebControl

@Jimbo.Automates I migrated notificaitons form pgx3 to eisy. Now my programs are not allowing me to edit the lines, or the lines have strange input. See first FOUR screenshots below for both AC and Eisy UI After reverting back to PGX3, everything is back to normal. See last two screenshots. Thanks.