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I often get caught up in the "battle of controllers" : ISY, Alexa, Ecobee etc.. As a result, whenever possible I default to using the ISY for control. So in both of my houses, even though I have "smart" thermostats, I basically never touch them and let the ISY do all the temp management. When either home is in "Vacation" mode, then EVERYTHING to do with the house being vacant gets managed on one controller.. the isy --=> security, temperature, water pump, random lights at night, etc. This has helped to keep my sanity around trying to remember which controller is doing what. A few other temp related examples of isy vs thermostat control: -if I tell Alexa to set the thermostat at house 1 to set the AC temp to anything above 80, isy takes over and runs the fan 30 out of 60m minutes, and holds indefinitely the tempt 85.. But as soon as I ask Alexa to set the temp to anything below 80, isy takes over and adjusts the temperature to the schedule I like which includes 4 or 5 adjustments between 11pm and 8am to keep the house circulating and cooling. -at house 2, I have two thermostats. if I tell Alexa a temp for either one, it will adjust the other one automatically to be in sync. (upstairs / downstairs). and depending on the outside temp it will adjust them either plus 1, even of minus 1 as I have noticed they run best this way at certain temps. -using seasonal input, temps and schedules and modes adjust automatically. All of this would be a nightmare to do on a thermostat. cheers!

@Javi ISY 5.8.0. PGX 3.2.18 There are no allow isy access parameters for those two PI..

@Javi Javi, see screen shots of when I click on Ring and ecobee.. and when I click on ELK--> I get nothing.. just a blank screen with a spinning wheel. I have restarted my iPhone with same result. Thoughts? thanks. All other ~10 PI are working as expected.

Had to check the new box "Allow ISY Access by Plugin". Then wa able to get the elk working again. However @Jimbo.Automates there is still no access via the beta plugin page on UDMobile.

Well here’s the problem with that. The plug in environment is not stable yet. for example this morning I woke up and three of my plugins are not connected. trying to restart the elk plugin through UD mobile and all I get is a spinning wheel before I even can get to the restart screen my ecobee PI responds with a long error message when I click on it the only way I can reset things is through the main pgx page directly. I can go down the rabbit hole again for why each plugin decides to fail but sometimes I don’t have the time and just need to get them working again.

Am I missing something? -can connect to pgx plugins via UDmobile -can connect to pgx directly IF I open a port on my router, but I get hacked when I do this and it causes the plug ins to quit and restart 1-2x /day -can connect to ISY AC remotely via the UDI address via launcher -->my.isy.io/isy/xxxxxxx as shown below -can NOT connect to PGx via the UDI address of https://my.isy.io:3000 which comes up when I use the launcher. -Settings in portal seem to be correct?

Its there now.. thanks..

Hey @Jimbo.Automates. the example isnt showing up? thanks

thanks @Goose66 that did the trick!! you guys are awesome!

looks like they got Alexa working again. I have increased polling times, and restarted, but plug-in still is reporting back false for service connection.

access method is both.. Alexa and plugin.. both are not working, so assume the problem is on their end. tried to call but the hold time >1 hour and now they are no longer accepting calls, just asked to call again tomorrow.. lol

Update. must be an iaqualink issue as my Alexa skill wont connect either. I hope they havent gone by way of the MyQ service!

Posting here as there is no specific pgx forum for this plug in. Updated to 3.31 python. Have restarted PI several times. Wont connect to service. I can connect to their service directly thru the web. any help? log packages included. iAquaLink_2-26-2024_75453_AM.zip

I do this all over my house using two programs. Here is an example. Works just fine. Never have the lights turn out if I am making motion. This is a battery MS II. Office Motion On - [ID 0122][Parent 0132] If From Sunrise - 1 hour To 9:30:00PM (same day) And ( 'MD Office' is switched On Or 'MD Office' Status is On ) And ( 'Office Desk' Status is Off Or 'Office Cans' Status is Off ) Then Set 'Office' Fast On Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') Office Motion Off - [ID 0176][Parent 0132] If 'MD Office' Status is Off And ( 'Office Cans' Status is not Off Or 'Office Desk' Status is not Off ) Then Wait 10 minutes Set 'Office' Off Wait 1 second Set 'Office' Off Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') And here is second way I do it>... Exercize Motion on - [ID 0138][Parent 0139] If 'MD Exercize Room-Sensor' is switched On Or 'MD Exercize Room-Sensor' Status is On And ( From Sunrise To Sunset (same day) ) Then Repeat Every 19 seconds Set 'Excer Cans' Fast On Run Program 'Exercize Motion Off' (Then Path) Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') Exercize Motion Off - [ID 0106][Parent 0139] If - No Conditions - (To add one, press 'Schedule' or 'Condition') Then Wait 5 minutes Set 'Excer Cans' Off Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') And in all cases, I also have a "delay" program so that if someone turns the light off manually, the MS doesn't turn it back on right away..so that they can exit the room w/o triggering it. Here's what that program looks like for each of the cases above. Office Delay on - [ID 011B][Parent 0132] If 'Office Cans' is switched Off And ( 'Office Desk' Status is not Off Or 'Office Cans' Status is not Off ) Then Disable Program 'Office Motion On' Else Wait 7 seconds Enable Program 'Office Motion On' Exercize Delay on - [ID 0100][Parent 0139] If 'Excer Cans' Status is not Off And 'Excer Cans' is switched Off Then Disable Program 'Exercize Motion on' Else Wait 12 seconds Enable Program 'Exercize Motion on'

@slimypizza Have you considered trying to use the plug in on Eisy? It looks like it can do what you are trying to do directly in the Eisy vs HA.

here is a link on how to set up the geofence in UDMobile

I do not have Blink cameras so am unfamiliar with what capabilities with the Plug-in are available. However, if you do have the plug-in and if you can arm it via the AC, through a program, then its very easy to tie you geofence into this. Example: -Geofence turns a variable from 0 to 1 when you leave. -program IF monitors the geofence variable and the THEN arms the blink cameras -ELSE unarm the blink.

I think your programs are running correctly, just the logic is wrong, @gviliunas points out the easist way to fix. What is happening is that at sunset -35 minutes, the first program goes false, running the ELSE. So 3 minutes go by and then the lux variable changes to 0. This triggers the ELSE in the second program which turns off the lights, regardless of what the LUX value actually is, because the variable turned to 0 in the first program. It seems like you expect the lux value to overrule the time condition, which wont happen. If either are false, the first program will turn false due to the AND. After you think thru this a bit, feel free to post your changes and others can comment if you are still having problems accomplishing what you want.

See screen shots below. This is in the UDMobile app on an iPhone.

The Eisy does not have native ability to directly communicate / control the plethora of Wifi devices hitting the market. However if the device has a public API, then programmers can develop a "plug-in" or Node-server for that line of devices. This plug-in can then be used by the Eisy to control the device like any other device in your device tree. If you go to the PGX "store" you will see the current list of plug-ins that have been developed and see if the product you want has a plug-in that will create the bridge between the Eisy native capability and the new wifi device. https://polyglot.universal-devices.com The last option, though sounds like you are not interested in, is to have Alexa or Google Home become the interface between the Eisy and the device, assuming the device is Alexa / Google Home compatible. This is a more laborious method and can come with frustration as Alexa for example changes their interface often etc. The downside to what you want to do (replace z-wave with Wifi), is that since it is not native to the Eisy, you will always be dependent on an internet connection for the Eisy to communicate to that company's servers thru Plug-in which utilizes the public API of that device. Still to come are Matter compliant devices, which the Eisy will have the native ability to control. But these are not on the market in any large degree yet and the Eisy isnt yet ready to manage them yet either.

sorry I missed this question. I have them hardwired to an insteon Open / Close Sensor.

@Goose66 Just upgraded to 3.25. Motion node added. Currently at unknown, probably because it hasn't been triggered yet. Question for clarification: The lockout node disables any remote control of the door, but still allows the wall controller to open / shut the door? So not to be confused with the "lock" that the door has that throws locked when the door is closed? thanks. Have it installed in two pole barn doors. This summer, will add to my three house doors too. Great!

just to be clear, you went through the process to get the beep after about 10 seconds of holding the air gap button pushed in? The switches do die occasionally. I just replaced on that was about 7 years old. Same reason. Resetting it via the air gap worked for a while, then it no longer worked. Replacement has worked fine. good luck.

So if the ISY cant communicate with the device, then Alexa also can't as it goes thru the ISY, so that is most likely your Alexa problem, as you probably have already guessed. I have found that the above comes usually when a switch may be dying if you haven't changed anything in the actual wiring of the switch, or added a new appliance nearby that could be causing noise, or it just needs reseting. First step would be to pull out the Gap button and then after a delay, push it back in and hold it until the switch beeps and then comes back on to full. This is the most typical way of resetting the switch. Then open up your AC to the ISY and select the switch and right click -> restore. sometimes the switches just need to be reset. Start there and if not, then the switch may have died, or you have some new very loud interference nearby.

@javi you recently suggested in another thread about using global color schemes to easily see lights on or off status. I recently set mine to red for Positive and green for Zero. Some questions for you: -why is that called zero vs false? -Under Devices, the colors work as expected: However, when I look at a scene, they are still all blue, whether on or off: And then when I look at my programs, all the folders are all red, and the programs are all red, even if they are true or false. This is very confusing.. should programs and folders have their own global settings versus devices? Thanks.