mountainman3520

Hello Everyone. I've been running old 4.7.3 ISY firmware at a few locations for over a year. Checked back in here to see what has developed. I was expecting a significant new update since there has been more activity than ever before in the broader smarthouse industry. Lots of new products, protocols, vendors, equipment, etc. I'm looking for control of new products, integration with mobile apps on iPhone, maybe some sort of integration with Apple, Ring, and Nest products which I am using now. Surprisingly, there was NO new update for my ISY that was running 4.7.3 2018 firmware! Really? How could this be? So I looked on the forums and there are many 5.x beta releases but none of these has moved passed the RC (release candidate) maturity stage. What's going on with ISY and Universal Devices? Thanks

Just tried that. Set to a static IP with DNS 8.8.8.8. The error changed but the NTP sync still failed. The popup error box now says "NTP server DNS error [time.nist.gov]". This error is repeated twice in the same error box. I took a screen shot and attached.

Hello, for some unknown reason I can't get NTP working. I have an ISY-994i/IR Pro and I'm 95% sure that I previously had NTP working, but the last few months my event timers have been drifting off and I logged into the ISY to debug and found an exclamation point by the NTP config. When I clock the sync now button I get a pop up error about 10 seconds later that the NTP server is not responding. Other devices on my network, ie within my firewall, are able to reach time.nist.gov and pool.ntp.org with no issues. Please help! -Dan

Thanks Michel. A few follow-ups: - The link you included on (2) above doesn't work. Could you please fix or add the correct link? Is it better to use the locally installed admin GUI application instead of clicking on the admin console link from the ISY's internal webpage, which I assume downloads a java app each time? - Why do the menus and configuration options look different on my admin console than in the UD network config guide? I don't seem to have choices to configure the security certificates. Thanks again. I found another way to install the admin console link, using the ISY internal webpage. So I'm set on that. I'm running an ISY 994i/IR PRO with firmware 4.0.5. So I think I've got all the latest versions. But the menus do not match the UD instruction document and I can't find the network setup options anywhere. When I click the menu choice under help, called "Request/Manage SSL Certificates", it opens a webpage with the instruction doc but nothing seems to match. What's going on?

Thanks Michel. A few follow-ups: - The link you included on (2) above doesn't work. Could you please fix or add the correct link? Is it better to use the locally installed admin GUI application instead of clicking on the admin console link from the ISY's internal webpage, which I assume downloads a java app each time? - Why do the menus and configuration options look different on my admin console than in the UD network config guide? I don't seem to have choices to configure the security certificates. Thanks again.

Another piece of information, I can launch the java client via HTTPS and it seems to load correctly, albeit slowly. The ISY admin app window opens and looks normal, but after around 30 seconds, instead of properly prompting for user login credentials, instead I get two popup error boxes containing the messages listed in the prior post. I can clear the messages and navigate around the ISY admin app screen but it is mostly blank, not showing anything from my ISY and only some of the top menus are populated. Logging in to the ISY externally via HTTP works perfectly, including loading the java client. So the problem is unique to external HTTPS with the java gui. I tried to check the certificates but the menu choice doesn't work right. Instead of opening a window to configure certificates, it opens a PDF file from here: http://www.universal-devices.com/docs/I ... 0Guide.pdf This file contains instructions for setting up networking, except that it looks like it is out of date. The photos of the configuration menus do not match what my ISY displays. I can't find the menu containing license settings.

Hello, I'm setting up a few ISYs for external access and working on port forwarding setup in my firewall. So far I've setup user defined external inbound ports for HTTP and HTTPS: - 51194 forwards and remaps to 80 (unsecure HTTP) - 61194 forwards and remaps to 443 (secure HTTPS) I have all outbound ports open. I plan to generally leave the port 51194/80 HTTP port forward disabled to avoid exposing my ISY to unsecure connections. What do people think of this? Better to block external HTTP connections to the ISY? Does it cause any problems to only leave 443 open? I generally like to leave the end device such as the ISY in its default state, ie configured for normal port 80 and 443, and use the port mapping feature of my router to map to the unique external ports for that device. Anyone see a problem with that? Are there any other ports that are needed by the ISY? I saw some article on portforward.com that included inbound ports 49168-49187. What are these? Are they needed for some ISY function or was that an error? Everything seems to be working via HTTP or HTTPS to open the basic ISY web based manager. But I get errors when I then try to run the java admin client over HTTPS: "Socket Open Failed java.net.SocketTimeoutException" "XML Parse Error https://.dyndns.org:61194/desc" What is causing these? Is it some timeout error? If so, what can I do to resolve it? I'd like to be able to run the full java client remotely over a secure HTTPS connection. Thanks!

I think this is a great idea. While I agree that its valuable for people to be able to share imported/exported programs directly without retyping them, it would also be really helpful for the community and sharing knowledge if we could conveniently extract blocks of programming into a text editor, showing the program names, hierarchy, readable formatting, etc. And then edit that content to insert comments to explain whatever we are trying to share. And then paste that content into forum posts. I'd love to see some of the programs from the very advanced users who have been learning to make the most of the ISY for years. And I'll probably have useful content to share as well.

Hello, Now that I am beginning to accumulate cool programs an capabilities on my ISY setups, it's time to go mobile! I can access the ISY through my firewall via a typical web browser on my Android phone but I'd really like a nice app to provide a local GUI client, easy integration with buttons, etc. And I'd like the Android client to connect directly to my ISY, not use a third party computer such as a cloud server. What are my options? The only one that seems currently active, receiving upgrades, with widespread use is Mobilinc. Is that really the only option and a no-brainer selection? Thanks!

Hello, I think I understand the function of the "Status" field and the content makes sense for most of my programs. By sometimes the status shows something that isn't what I expected and I'd like to understand, since it probably means I don't fully understand how/when programs start and stop execution. I believe the status field shows the current boolean (true/false) result of the IF condition in the program. But here is an example of a program that is showing a "true" status even though it seems like this program's IF condition should be false: If Time is 3:00:00AM Then Set 'Therm Up - Main' Synchronize Clock Set 'Therm Down - Main' Synchronize Clock Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') I would have thought this program's status would flicker briefly to true at 3am, maybe only for 1 second because once it reached 3:00:01AM the condition would become false. The brief time in the true state would trigger execution of the then actions, which might continue after the IF was no longer true if they took longer than 1 second. Am I correctly understanding the operation or am I missing something? If this is right, why does the state continue to show as true all day? Thanks.

Hmmmm, is there some trick to exporting or copying ISY programming? I have a hierarchy of programs in subfolders that I'd like to copy and paste on this forum as examples of how I've used variables to control my thermostats. But I've only figured out how to copy each individual program and it doesn't include any hierarchy info so its tough to post a complete program that is hierarchically organized and have it be comprehensible to the reader. Screen shot? Lol Screen shots won't work either since each little program must be separately selected in the left window for the code to display in the right window. So a program with 20 subprograms would need 20 screenshots. Not a practical way to share info. UD team: please enhance the "copy to clipboard" feature so that if a user has selected multiple programs or directories in the left window, the copy to clipboard options should copy all selected programs including program names and code, in a readable format. Thanks. This feature could have a big impact on how easily and frequently the ISY user community collaborates, shares code, improves the ISY product use experience, and thereby helps UD sell mode ISYs. If you want a vibrant community, we need to be able to conveniently share programs.

Hmmmm, is there some trick to exporting or copying ISY programming? I have a hierarchy of programs in subfolders that I'd like to copy and paste on this forum as examples of how I've used variables to control my thermostats. But I've only figured out how to copy each individual program and it doesn't include any hierarchy info so its tough to post a complete program that is hierarchically organized and have it be comprehensible to the reader.

Wow! I have to correct my comment above. Actually, the ISY DOES include a function to synchronize the 2441's internal clock with the ISY clock!! Its very cleverly named "synchronize clocks". I'm not sure how I missed it before. Maybe it was added in a recent software upgrade. Anyway, I'm very pleased. I've now added a program that syncs the clocks of all my thermostats every day at 3am. Good work ISY hackers!

My apologies for not reading the full thread to try to find the current answer to this question. I'd like to add future based decision making into my thermostat programs. The idea is to adjust the current temp programs based on how hot or cold the next day is predicted to be. Is there a good way to get local weather forecast of the next few days into the isy? Does the weather module do that? If not, it should. Please add that feature. I'd like to know high and low temp for night and day, plus rain probability. This would factor into irrigation programs too, as well as hvac.

Hello mountainman3520- Many of us us the same approach as you have. It does make things more flexible. -Xathros I have been programming the ISY on and off (more off) for about a year now. I understand what a variable is, but I'm not sure if I understand how to program a variable in the ISY and use it for programming purposes. My fear is that I'll be creating messy programs when I could simply be using variables but not realizing it. So sad.... No need to despair. The isy makes variable use very easy. I'll post a few examples when I get back to a computer.