Ryan0751

That still sounds like an ideal solution. When is the 5.x release expected?

Thanks. I'm not sure where that duplicate post came from, I can't seem to delete it. So does this mean I need to remove all "controllers" from my scene, and create a new program that's basically and "if controller 1 set to on else if controller 2 set to on else if...", and that program then triggers the insteon scene and sends the hue network resource as well?

I just added some Hue lamps to my existing Insteon/ISY-994i setup. My most common scene is called "Ambient". I trigger this using many devices: 2 different Keypad Linc's, my iPhone/iPad, Alexa, etc. I followed the directions to add in a networking resource for my new Hue lights. I now have an "on" networking resource and "off" networking resource that successfully turns the Hue's on and off as a group (I just want them to turn back on to whatever last setting I had, and this seems to work great). Now... I want to tie the Hue's into the "ambient" scene. I can't quite figure out this step. The directions on the Wiki suggest a program that monitors the scene state... but I see no such option in the programming interface. I can trigger the program off of a device state, but not scene state. Is there a way to do this? I was thinking of a variable, is there a way to set a variable when a scene is triggered?

I just added some Hue lamps to my existing Insteon/ISY-994i setup. My most common scene is called "Ambient". I trigger this using many devices: 2 different Keypad Linc's, my iPhone/iPad, Alexa, etc. I followed the directions to add in a networking resource for my new Hue lights. I now have an "on" networking resource and "off" networking resource that successfully turns the Hue's on and off as a group (I just want them to turn back on to whatever last setting I had, and this seems to work great). Now... I want to tie the Hue's into the "ambient" scene. I can't quite figure out this step. The directions on the Wiki suggest a program that monitors the scene state... but I see no such option in the programming interface. I can trigger the program off of a device state, but not scene state. Is there a way to do this? I was thinking of a variable, is there a way to set a variable when a scene is triggered?

I just replaced my PLM as well, and noticed that my scenes aren't working either. I did a "Restore PLM", but when I trigger a scene in the admin console, nothing! I can control individual devices just fine. I don't see any exclamation points or 0101 next to any of my devices either.

Strange, I left everything unplugged when leaving for work today. I came home, plugged in the PLM. I see the "LED" isn't lighting up, so I think it is probably dead. I powered up the ISY-99i, and it's back alive. I can get into the admin console, but indeed, it says it can't connect to the PLM. I guess I'll order a new PLM.

I noticed last night that my MobileLinc app could connect to my ISY-99i, and send/receive commands, but I couldn't actually change any of my Insteon scenes - nothing would happen. I opened the ISY-99i admin panel, and I was able to log in just fine, but the same thing for changing Insteon scenes/devices - If I change one, nothing actually happens. So, I figured something could be wrong with the PLM. I disconnected power to my PLM as well as the ISY-99i, waited 30 seconds or so, plugged in the PLM and then the ISY-99i. I'm now in a state where I can ping the IP of the ISY-99i just fine, but can't connect to the web interface at all. What do I do now?

I have a couple of motion detectors which send me e-mail notifications when motion is detected. It works great! I also have a cat, so I expect to see some motion messages once in a while. Often, however, I'll get like 10 messages when kitty decides to walk around and get some food. Is there a way to throttle how many messages are sent within a period of time? Or better yet, can you actually get the motion sensors adjust to be insensitive to an 8 pound kitty?

Ha I think I answered my own question... I never noticed mobilelinks location feature before.

Yeah, I'll have to experiment. I have my motion sensors setup to trigger text and email notifications. Usually when I get home I used my cell phone and mobilelync to run an "I'm home" program. I could tie into that. I'm curious as to your cell phone location implementation... Something trigger from my cell phone present on my wifi would be neat.

That works fine. So I assume when the 2 hours "for" time expires, the ISY triggers another event and runs the program again, this time evaluating the else? Now what if that lamp is part of another scene, I want that lamp to come on if I am not home, stay on for two hours, then turn off. That's working great. However, if I am at home, and am running one of my usual lighting scenes, and that lamp is on as part of that scene, I really don't want it turning off randomnly in two hours. There doesn't appear to be an "else if"... how could I accomplish this? Or, should I set a condition in the upper folder, would that catch the second event and not run the "off" event?

I set up a simple program to turn a light on daily to appear as though someone is home. I set the If from 5:30 pm for 2 hours then The light comes on, but after 2 hours it doesn't turn off. I'm a bit confused at to the logic here. Would turn light off go in the else?

I have two motion sensors, and they are set up to send my cell a text message if they detect motion between certain programmed hours. This works great, but as you can imagine, there are days where I need to be home and such, and the texts get annoying very very quickly. I'm curious as to how others have solved this. I obviously don't want a physical control sitting around that you can press a button and set a flag on the ISY to disable the motion program. I can create a program in the ISY that I trigger from MobileLync. But then I need to remember to reset it for the next day. Any suggestions?

That all makes sense. The wait's seem to have fixed setting the buttons correctly.

I have an update (already!). I added in a 5 second wait to all of these programs, and things seem to be working perfectly now. Is this normal? It's no big deal as long as the "state" lands where it should be.

Ok I spent a LOT of time tonight setting up the scenes and programs. I have Kitchen Panel, and Bedroom Panel (KP and BP for short). I created the following scenes: BP all but B BP all but C and so on... (B-H) And: KP all but B KP all but C and so on... (B-H) In each of those scenes are all the buttons for the specified panel, except the specified button letter. If I hit "on" on that scene, all the buttons except that one light up, and conversely the reverse is true. In each of my other scenes (the 7 using the keypads, which are identical for both keypads), I added in all the buttons for both panels as responders, except for the 1 button per panel which was already there as a controller. I clicked in the scene on each panel, and set the levels for all the responders to 0. From here, if I press a key, it lights up. If I press another key, the first light goes out, the second key lights up as I want (on the local panel). Now, on the other panel, I noticed all the LED's were lit up. So I went ahead and created 14 programs, one for each button press. For example, for KP button B, I have a program such as this: If Control 'Kitchen Panel / Kitchen Panel - B (Ambient)' is switched on Then Set Scene 'Bedroom Panel Scenes / BP All But B' Off The program is enabled, but doesn't seem to trigger anything on the bedroom panel when I hit the kitchen panel B button. I also ran into an issue with my RemoteLyncs. When I would hit a scene on the remote linc, ALL of the buttons on BOTH my keypadlincs would light up. I added a program just like above, but for "if remotelinc button pressed" then use the same two "BP all But X and KP all But X" scenes. In this case, it now works. All the lights light up for a second, then only the scene button activated is left on. Any pointers?

This is awesome, thanks so much. When did SmartHome begin shipping the .40's? I just checked, and I ordered these babies in July 2011. Are they that new? The ISY is definitely showing them as .36.

Thanks, that's what I figured.

I just managed to break my keypadlinc popping off the button tops (man those are cheaply made). I am going to replace this. I know you are supposed to add the new keypad, and then do the "replace" option. Does the old keypad need to be on the network to "unlink" it? I can't imagine so, but I wanted to check before I do this. Thanks!

To clarify, I have two KPL's. One in the kitchen, one in the loft area. Button B on both KPL's let say run the scene "downstairs". In the scene, I have B on both KPL's set as a controller. Now, you say I can have the secondary buttons as responders, but only on the KPL where the button is pressed, and then an additional program to trigger the other KPL's secondary buttons to be "off". Since both KPL's act as the controller, doesn't that present a problem (since either one can be pressed)? Can I just create anISY program that says "OK, downstairs scene was triggerred, trigger a scene to turn off C D E F G H on both kitchen and loft's KPL's". Thanks very much for your help!

Stinky. So exactly how would I handle this? Both my keypadlincs have the exact same scenes on them. I'm a little confused Add all the buttons not used for BOTH KPL's to the scene and say "off"? (that's a lot of items to add) Also, are the mutually exclusive groups SUPPOSED to work?

I have 2, and they aren't at V.40. Is there a way to upgrade the firmware?

I have 2 8 button KeypadLincs. My scenes are all nicely set up, and work well. I find, however, that after a bunch of presses the various buttons remain lit up and need to be pressed again to turn them off. I went into the grouping settings of the ISY-99, and tried to make a mutual exclusion button group. It warns that this isn't the right way to do it.... Should for a scene that is set to use KPL button B as controller, should I make all the other buttons responders and set their state to off? Would I need to push the scenes all out again to my various controllers (RemoteLinc's, another KPL) which would take a long time?

Thanks, that does help. I think I have it all sorted out. Before buying the ISY I couldnt get anything working well just using the insteon controllers themselves. This thing is great!

Wait... I think I figured something out, when I select each keypadlinc controller directly, I see that here the loads are set to 100%! This is confusing. Why didn't it take the defaults I specified for the group?