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Funny you mention this.. my light that mysteriously comes on frequently is also a micro dimmer. Not sure what you mean by the old signal line. Can you expand? thanks.

I have scenes not folders for those items. You will need to create a scene with those three lights in them and then navigate to that scene for the UD Mobile favorite for it to "change" colors based on status. Here is are screen shots of the "Main Level" EDIT screen and Config Screens, and the devices listed under it if I click on it in normal mode (not edit mode). I do have generic folders where I have change the colors / icons such as the down arrow label "More Below". I have attached the set up for that particular folder, which literally does nothing but is a label for me. If I click on it, it just says empty. Hope that helps.

@kzboray Feel your pain and frustration. I have one light in our kitchen that will just come on for no reason. Cant even tie it to any other event. It's random both in its frequency of occurrence and the time of day. I have just learned to live with it. I have reset the switch to factory, pulled it out of scenes, put it back into scenes etc and it has lessened the frequency but it still happens on occasion. There are several other lights that will very infrequently come on as well. One set is a threeway in a shed. These switches are not part of any scene nor part of any program, and yet they will strangely be on in the middle of the night, usually about once every 2-3 months. Go figure. For the fire pit, I have a gas fireplace that in the past has come on once or twice, so I now have a cuttoff switch that I manually flip so when I am away or its summer time, there is NO way insteon can turn it on. It's in our bedroom. I also monitor the temp in the room so that if it gets too hot it will alert me to check on the fireplace. Hasn't come on though in a long time so that gremlin went away.

Wow.. amazing... it's a five minute job to install. Plug in works flawlessly. My experience for those thinking about it..... FLASHING: Once you receive the RATDGO, you will need to flash it. I struggled with this only because I chose the wrong firmware to install. Be sure to choose on the RATDGO page, the bottom choice under MQTT. Once I did that, I was able to configure the RATDGO to my wifi and to talk to the Polisy MQTT server INSTALLATION: Yesterday I turned a 5 minute job into 20 minutes of install and 90 minutes of troubleshooting only to quit and try again today. Today it took 5 minutes. The problem I had was that I misunderstood the install wiring directions and thought that all the new wires had to be spliced into the existing wires. This caused the GDO to shoot off tons of errors and not work. Last night, after I gave up, I saw some pictures on the RATDGO page that showed me that they replace the existing wires. So today it took me 2 minutes to rip everything I did yesterday out and connect two RATDGO devices to two pole barn doors. SUPER EASY WHEN YOU DO IT CORRECTLY LOL. ISY: Opened PGX, hit discover, four nodes found immediately, two doors and two lights. Opened AC and they showed up in the Node tree. Control was almost instantaneous. Programing looks excellent as well. THANKS TO @Goose66 for an excellent Plugin. This is by far the cheapest and easiest way to get control of garage doors again after the closing of MyQ API.

There really is no difference. In either case we are BOTH using a "trigger" to let the ISY know of a status that we want to monitor. The ISY does all the work. Yes you have to create variable for each phone. Yes you have to set up one simple program that INITS the variable each time it changes. But after that, the result is 100% the same. Your programs can then test each variable independently or in whatever combination you want, versus the node, to determine the status you want to react to. good luck!

What I have done accomplishes it in a round-about way. If you notice on my main page I have several scenes on it: Main level, upstairs lights, outside back , outside front etc. I have configured them so that if any light is on in that scene, it will turn red. I can then easily turn them all off, or by clicking on the icon, it opens the scene and I can see specifically which light is on / off and control them individually. so in essence, I have groups that narrows down what is on, and then I can see each item. There are over 30 lights in my main level scene.

I think what you are saying is extremely easy to do, if I understand it correctly. For example: I have my geofence in UD mobile linked to a State variable called Dougs_iphone_Home. When it's a 1, I am home. When it's a 0 I am outside of the fence. My phone, via UDMobile communicates with the ISY to change this variable as I enter and leave and enter and leave... Now in any programs I want to run, or any folders I want to run when I am away, I simply add this variable as a condition. ie: if Dougs_iphone_Home = 0, then .... else... So for example, I have an alarm that sets automatically each night at 10, if I am home...Is part of the conditions for the folder to even run each night. Another example is a fire place that starts in the morning, only if both myself and spouse are home. Morning Fire - [ID 0046][Parent 0012] If Time is 7:15:00AM And ( $Dougs_iPhone_home is 1 Or $Wendys_iPhone_home is 1 ) Then Run Program 'Morning Fire On LD' (If) The point is that once you have someway to tell the ISY if the phone is home or away ; (your way--> node is on /off, or my way--> a viable is 1 or 0), then the sky is hte limit on what you can do with that info in the ISY. One important thing though is to be sure to Init the variable to itself each time it changes, so that if you lose power it doesn't reset to 0 while you are home and screw things up. Doug Phone Init - [ID 014D][Parent 03C3] If $Dougs_iPhone_home is 0 Or $Dougs_iPhone_home is 1 Then $Dougs_iPhone_home Init To $Dougs_iPhone_home If this doesn't make sense, or I missunderstood your concern, let me know

Here are some screen shots from my favorites groups.. there are folders that contain second and third level screens. I'll try to describe with each screen shot. MAIN PAGE THAT APP IS SET TO OPEN TO: SCROLLING DOWN FROM ABOVE, MAIN PAGE IS TWO PAGES LONG Clicking on any of the icons above, will either run a programs true or false (toggling), or bring up the node for full control, or in the case of Russound Controls, its a folder that takes you to this page where I can toggle each zone on / off or change the volume in increments by running a programs Then command: Touching the Enable / disable on the main page takes me to this page where I can toggle key areas / functions of hte house by running a programs then or Else, toggling, that changes a variable which disables / enables folders/programs etc. Touching the Weather icon on the main page takes you to a page of weather info from my tempest via a plugin to ISY. Touching the room temps icon on the main page takes me here. Camera icon takes me here....where I can select any individual camera to see more. Sprinkler takes me here where each top button folder icon takes me to the two next screens. Anyway, I hope you get the idea... with a little bit of upfront time, it is really powerful and can be set up to be super easy to use according to your needs. cheers.

UD Mobile is extremely powerful, but yes it is a bit confusing to learn. The first thing I would suggest is to think about setting up you favorites screen (s). Then you dont really have to go through all your devices, or programs or vaiarialbes to run them. They will all run from the favorites screen. The challenge here is that you have to understand how to set up a favorite so that it can be a command, it can link to one device, but run a different program when pressed etc. You can add colors, but they are done in ACSI... I will post some more info soon for you to look at. It is WELL WORTH the effort once you get a handle on it.

The one thing I did not comment on is the size and location of the actual geofence (circle). if you play with it you should be able to figure it out but if not, just holler

yes.. it will never come up if you follow the above

GOT IT!!!! finally. Seems like I did the same things, but this time, it did come up to a MQTT config page! @Goose66Here are the screen shots of each step if you want to include in your directions.

I'll try that, but I am pretty sure that is the one I selected. From Ratdgo page: Click here to launch the ratgdo ESP Web Tools flasher Choose the version you wish to install ratgdo - includes WiFi configuration through ESP Tools. After flashing the firmware, ESP tools will ask you for your WiFi credentials. After ratgdo connects to your network, you will be given the option to Visit Device so you can configure the MQTT settings. I visit the page, but do not see where to configure the MQTT settings. Will try again.

One further update: I just refreshed one of the cards using windows. Same result. After the flash, this is the screen I get before the screen I posted above. Then I click on Visit Device and I get the above screen. The reason I havent installed it yet to see if the screen changes, is that these are going in a pole barn and it's only 15 degrees here! So I want to minimize my time in the cold! Thanks.

Ok. sorry for the long string. This is where I am at: I have two RATDGO devices Both flashed successfully to where I can "see" the devices at Http://<ratdgo IP>. What I see is attached. The option on the last page of the install was "view" device, not configure There is NO PLACE on the screen to make any changes. It is more of an "operating" screen where I can push buttons and things will happen ratgdov2.5i ca0567.pdf I do have parallels / windows on my Mac and can try to flash them again via that route? Both devices do the exact same thing. So that is why I am wondering if I have to install them on the GDO to get to the area where I can actually "configure" the devices per the RATDGO Plug in directions.

Ok. have been able to connect to the device by switching cables. Have also re-installed the software, but again, I dont see any option to set the configuration per the plug-in directions. What am I missing. T NOte.. i do not have it installed in the garage yet. is that why I dont have config page?

It seems like it's a connection issue. The first time I connected I had three options and chose serial usb. Now I am only getting one option and it is bluetooth and it acts the same whether the RATDGO has power /connected or not. So am pretty sure that is one problem I need to solve first.

Trying a slightly different way I get this message. Is there a button or some other way to reboot it?

Followed the directions for installing the firmware, was successful. Followed the prompts and connected to wifi successfully. Followed the prompts and could "view" the RATDGO successfully. However, per the directions for the RATDGO plug-in, I never had a prompt nor do I see anywhere to do the following --> Note that the ratgdo configuration page will require you to set an "OTA & Web Config Password" upon initial configuration. Make sure you don't forget this password! In order to gain subsequent access to the configuration page, you must authenticate with a username of the ratgdo "Device Name" and the "OTA & Web Config Password" that you set. If you forget the password, you will have to reflash the device and start again. Configuration settings that must be changed/verified comprise: Make sure the "Enable MQTT" checkbox is checked. So I decided that I must have overlooked that step and did a re-install. This time, it went to 89% complete and then stopped. My RATDGO now has a solid blue light and wont get past the "Preparing" stage for erasing and updating the firmware. Any suggestions? thanks.

Are you using JUST UD Mobile? First set up a variable that you want to toggle in the AC.. Then follow these screen shots. It should be very straightforward: THEN..... Then....name it and set the variable for 1 for enter and 0 for exit. hit save After hitting ADD, navigate to the variable that you set up earlier and enter the value you want for entry and exit. Hit save. that is all it should take to sett up.

There is no direct connection between smarthings and polisy, but smarthings integrates with Alexa and polisy also connects with Alexa, so you can use Alexa to bridge between smarthings and polisy.

An option you may want to consider is Konnected at https://konnected.io/collections/shop-now It integrates currently with Smarthings, Home Assistant and a few others. But the beauty of it is that it uses all of your current alarm sensors. You simply rip out the old "brains" and replace it with the Konnected wifi board. All of your sensors are now available via wifi and the smart things app, even if you don't have a smarthings hub. the smart things app integrates with Alexa quite well, which can get you into the ISY as there are no Plug-ins for this technogly (yet). I have a second home where I run this system with smarthings (no ISY) and it works really well.

@ekapigian Am sorry that you are having problems. You should open a ticket at https://www.universal-devices.com/contact-us/. Michel and team are very customer focused and should be able to get you up and running confidently and consistently.

Setting this up in UD Mobile is actually very easy. Post back if you are having problems, once you look through the Wiki above.

Here is another option that is new to the market... but no integration to ISY except through Alexa. https://konnected.io/blogs/news/the-open-source-myq-alternative?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_campaign=01HKZQHMFQM6KY7EYJBH2WBQJH&_kx=pqkgK1oe-WskWjWDjECYBp6l8RAPacxFnnp3YXtzKNY%3D.MJyxwm