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Am on 1.1.37... all my formatting, which I spent hours on through different screens is now all messed up.. Cells that are two wide, wont let a one wide appear next to it. so everything is now offset and pushed down. I hope you un fix whatever has happened.

I have found for my application on my main level that scenes work much faster and more efficient. Downside, is you cant easily ask a scene to dim etc. Roughly thirty lights are included in the scenes, insteon, hues and kasa. Scenes include: evening, mood, dim, nightlight, dinner, supper, cooking etc. Alexa is the initiator that either runs the scene directly or in the case of dinner or supper, first plays music and then an ISY program that turns on the right music zone to the right volume (russound NS) and turns on the scene. I do have a few programs to control these for all on / all off, but they are significantly slower to turn all the lights on / off etc. Each light can also be accessed via Alexa separately so if someone desires the island cans to be brighter they can easily do that independent of the preset scenes. The nice thing about this is that while watching tv in an adjoining room, Alexa can trigger programs that set scenes in that room while also dimming the lights in the rest of the area simply by calling one of the above scenes.

@greensha The closest thing to a batch add is to highlight all the devices you want to add to the scene by option (Mac) clicking on them if they are non-contiguous or Shift clicking first and last item if they are contiguous in the list. Then you can add them all at once, but will still have to decide controller / responder and settings for each. Often I find I am creating different scenes with same devices. that makes it very easy once you have the first scene to select all the items in that scene and drag it to the next scene that you have established for it , but which is empty.

So how does the Polisy actually communicate to the Ratdgo? via LAN wifi? Just trying to understand if I installed two in a remote pole barn, how the "link" would work. I have wifi there but too far for zwave etc. thanks.

Its actually pretty easy.. Here is an example where I have the ISY control an Amazon light in my garage: 1) create a variable in ISY: mine is called Garage_light_yellow 2) go to your portal and create an Alexa spoken by selecting: Select Tools / Connectivity / Amazon Echo as shown below 3) Next, create a new Spoken and select type Variable. You should see your variable in the drop down list, and select it. Since I dont want Alexa to ever actually recognize the spoken, I make the spoken a bit of gibberish. Then you can select the variable value you want for that spoken. Below is my example. 4) after saving the above, go to Alexa and ask it to "discover new devices". It should come back with one new device found after a 30-60 second delay. 5) In the Alexa app, set up a routine that looks for this motion as the trigger for your shades. It will look something like this. 6) write your ISY program to change the variable to a 1 when you want that routine to trigger and then back to zero for the next triggering event. Here is mine for this simple example. Garage Party light yellow Summer - [ID 036E][Parent 0207] If $Garage_Party is 1 And $Season is 3 And ( 'Garage Door Middle' Door State is Open Or 'Garage Door North' Door State is Open Or 'Garage Door South' Door State is Open ) Then $Garage_light_yellow = 1 Wait 15 seconds $Garage_light_yellow = 0 Feel free to reach out via DM if you having issues. This is the most simplest form of using ISY to trigger Alexa routines. For shades you may want to use the following syntax instead of a motion sensor as you can have more control of using different variables values in ISY to have alexa run different routines. I dont have any shades so I have never used this feature. Good luck

But if handy, you can connect the I/O to an extra remote such that it closes the appropriate contacts and then mount the remote close enough to operate the doors via the ISY. Monitoring the Door status can be done with many options including insteon open close contacts, Elk contacts or as mentioned the YoLinc contacts. The I/O can be any device that you get to talk to ISY such as insteon I/O, the Zoos I/O etc. This is what I had been using before MyQ for three main garages doors: elk outputs soldered to an extra remote, and elk hardwired open/close sensor. Luckily I held off deleting all of the programing I had for the Elk system when I went to MyQ. Now I test to see if MyQ service is true and if so use that system, if not, use the Elk system. The problem I have is a pole barn where the Insteon signal is questionable for two doors. I have tried insteon I/O to sense the doors but it was always sketchy in accuracy and because it's cold, the batteries drained quickly . I havent done the remote wiring as of yet because MyQ was working so well. Am not sure if the YoLink sensors will travel far enough and using zwave wont work with a zoos because again its too far from the ISY zwave to work. So MyQ was a great solution.

Well that is disappointing.. I. see they still allow IFTTT. May try to figure out this path out and run IFTTT through ISY. Just another winter project.....

I took an extra three button garage door opener remote and soldered wires to each switch and the common and have my ELK outputs via the ISY trigger the buttons. The remote is mounted in my garage. Works reasonably well but needs appropriate timing / delays when opening / closing multiple doors. Still have it as back up to the MyQ app which I prefer because I have two pole barn doors that I cannot do the above to and have only fair ISY communications with so an I/O module which could do the same, would only work sporadically. Currently I had to set up a trigger variable such that if the MyQ service is TRUE, then the ISY will use the system, and if false, it will use the Elk / remote system above.

Got a chance to day to restart it after >2 days of it being stopped.. No luck. Back to the 401 error.

@joepoway if you are new to integrating Alexa and ISY, and you get lost figuring it out based on the wiki, please post back what steps you have done and where you feel you are getting lost. In general, you need to do the following in this order for it all to connect: -Set up your program in ISY that you want Alexa to trigger. -Go to the portal and set up a 'Link' between this new program and the 'spoken' you want by selecting type: program, select the program, add a 'spoken' command. You can ignore the rest.You can add more than one spoken trigger. If you had the portal open before you finished the program, you will have to hit the Refresh button on the portal page for it to gather the new program info, otherwise, it will not show up in the drop down menu. -go to your Alexa or Alexa app and ask Alexa to "discover new devices". This can take up to 30 seconds or more. Finished.

429 error again. Not sure how long it's been offline as I am not home to use it and guess it has been trying hard to reconnect. Will stop it for the rest of the day and try to restart it tonight. I will NOT be asking for a refund as it is not the developers fault and he has been working hard to implement work arounds to the issue that Chamberlin keeps creating.

Updated. Working first try! I have had it Stopped for >24 hours before I reconnected. Polls are 20/60. Thanks @Goose66. How quickly we become dependent on our automation!! lol.

The only special symbol I had was the @ sign.. I just removed it still no success.

@Goose66 same here. have been trying for almost 24 hours to get back in with 30 minute to several hours wait in between tries. Some of the errors fyi: WARNING interface:_get_server_data: get_server_data: failed to read file server.json: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'server.json' ARNING myqapi:_oAuthRequest: Network/server error logging into MyQ service: 401 Client Error: Unauthorized for url: https://partner-identity.myq-cloud.com/connect/token myqapi:_oAuthRetrieveToken: Error in Step 4 of oAuth flow. WARNING myqapi:_oAuthRequest: Network/server error logging into MyQ service: 429 Client Error: Too Many Requests for url: https://partner-identity.myq-cloud.com/connect/authorize?client_id=IOS_CGI_MYQ&code_challenge=atjbNDQAVDxGLhGc0dQ-FYmjUzN7ymMa2hDGTVlBdLQ&code_challenge_method=S256&redirect_uri=com.myqops%3A%2F%2Fios&response_type=code&scope=MyQ_Residential+offline_access

Init just is an abbreviation for Initial Value. so that upon restart, instead of the value default to zero, you can place a value into memory that is sustained during a power outage and then this sets the variable to that value instead of zero upon a restart.

@MarkJames Hi Mark, it's actually pretty simple. Here is an example program and how to create it. I have found that it works best with a few (silence) commands to "warm up" the speaker connection because I have the elk connected to a PA announcement option in my whole home Sound system. You may not need that. Announce Front Doorbell LD - [ID 0192][Parent 0104][Not Enabled] If $Away is 0 Then Set 'ELK Controller' Speak Word [500ms_Silence] Set 'ELK Controller' Speak Word [500ms_Silence] Set 'ELK Controller' Speak Word [800hz_Tone] Set 'ELK Controller' Speak Word [800hz_Tone] Set 'ELK Controller' Speak Word Guest Set 'ELK Controller' Speak Word At Set 'ELK Controller' Speak Word Front Set 'ELK Controller' Speak Word Door Else Send Notification to 'DBW Text' content 'Doorbell Front' Leave Disabled-->Called byFront Dorbell

@gregkinney Greg , if I understand correctly, your issue is upon restart you lose the value of a varilabe becuase the init value is 0. The solution to this is quite simple. Every time you change an important "governing" variable, add an init line below it to init it to itself. I do this on probably 50% of my variables. It looks like this: Autolocks - [ID 0121][Parent 01A5] If - No Conditions - (To add one, press 'Schedule' or 'Condition') Then $Autolocks = 1 $Autolocks Init To $Autolocks Else $Autolocks = 0 $Autolocks Init To $Autolocks To get this option, you need to click on the Arrow as shown below. Continue to click on the arrow to cycle through other options as well.

Louder / softer works well. I have the following as a screen in Favorites on UDmobile. The Softer / louder buttons tie to programs like this: Rus Bedroom Louder - [ID 0385][Parent 0377] If - No Conditions - (To add one, press 'Schedule' or 'Condition') Then $I_Rus_Bedroom_Volume = 'RussoundCtl_1 / Bedroom Sound' Volume dB $I_Rus_Bedroom_Volume += 4 Set 'RussoundCtl_1 / Bedroom Sound' Volume '$I_Rus_Bedroom_Volume Decibel' Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')

Issue was in the app.. for some reason it had changed to m/s. changed it back, restarted NS and all is great! Thanks.

It exists.. see screenshot. thanks.

attached is log. Am not sure what to do per your above message. thanks. MyQ_10-6-2023_110136-AM.zip

Wind speed has changed to m/s vs mph @bpwwer I dont know why or when this changed but noticed it today. Reading through other posts, it appears this is the startup default and it will switch? Am not sure why it "reset". Have been using this NS since it was available and have not had this before. Any thoughts? Thanks.

OMG.. forgot about that step.. lol. It is even in the directions!! Once the "MyQ Service" appears in the Admin Console, click the "Discover Devices" button for the node to discover MyQ bridges (hubs) and devices linked to your account. THANKS! sorry to waste your time. All working excellently!!

I added a new MyQ garage opener with its own hub. It shows on my MyQ app just fine, but the NS would not load it. I deleted the old door opener, restarted the NS a few times. It reloads the old door but not the new one. So I deleted the NS and re installed it. Now it is only loading hte main Service = true, but zero of my 11 nodes. Have restarted it a few times. No change. Attached are the logs. Any ideas? thanks. MyQ_10-4-2023_100926-AM.zip

Another ALL PROGRAMS DISABLED situation: Had a power blip here today. Polisy wasn't responding correctly afterwards. Could not access via AC. Unplugged, replugged. Gained access upon reboot. All programs were again disabled. Had to do another restore from my back up. After restore, self reboot, am back in and everything is fine. STRANGE.