markarmer

I am, yes... In the works has been a long time coming with several delays, I'm simply asking now if there is actually a real time frame to work with or if we're still thinking along the lines of it will come soon, like landing humans on mars?

Hi Michel, Is there a rough timeframe on this yet? My years old electric curtains recently died and I am planning to replace them with the Smartwings product mentioned at the beginning of this post. The curtains are available with either Z-wave plus or Matter over Thread motor units - The manufacturer claims their product has a 5 to 7 year lifespan. With the 5-7yr window in mind, which motor do you think I would be better purchasing? If the matter support will be here soon I'd rather jump for the new version, however, if I go with the Z-Wave unit do you think Universal Devices will still be fully supporting Z-Wave in 7+ years? Thank you in advance, Mark

Michel, I upgraded to 5.6.4 a few days ago and I just tried the switch again now but not sure if I did it correctly... I right clicked the device and chose the option to remove it from the zigbee network. The icon then got a red line through it for a while, but returned with the light bulb icon.... so I right clicked it again and chose the Delete option, which did get it out of the UI. I then did a factory reset on the switch, and re-added it by clicking on Zigbee at the top of the UI and choosing 'Add Zigbee Device" It went through the interview process and added it again with the bulb icon. The device name was "ZB xxxxx.1 Unavailable" (the x's are numbers). In the UI it simply shows a 'Query' button but nothing else. I tried right clicking, choosing zigbee then 'Update' but it made no difference. At this point i unplugged the power cable and completely rebooted my eisy. After rebooting and logging back in, now when i select the Zigbee button, at the top are 'water alarm' and 'battery level' boxes but both are empty. Below is a 'set configuration' button, and to the right parameter number & value boxes. At the bottom there are now two buttons 'Query' and 'Write Changes'. In programs I created a test program, but the Zigbee device doesn't show in the list when I try to create an IF based on either status or control.

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I just started to work with my Polisy Pro, clicked on the Buttons to Upgrade Bios, then Update All Packages. After doing so I purchased Ambient Weather & HarmonyHub from the Node server store. Ambient Weather works perfectly but HarmonyHub will not start... It appears to run for 2 seconds then stops again. I reached out to the developer and provided logs, and he asked me to submit a ticket here as after his advide I tried updating all packages again but nothing changed. Attached is the log package. Thank You in advance for any assistance you can provide.

Programs stop after updating a variable... I have several programs that I've used for many years which update multiple variables based on a device state. A very basic example of that would be the 'Then' section of a counter, it is changed, then the init also changes, such as: $Counter_Test += 1 Wait 1 seconds $Counter_Test Init To $Counter_Test These counters all used to work perfectly and I rely on them heavily for irrigation and counting rain however now, as soon as the variable updates (Line one above: $Counter_Test += 1) the programs stop. In the example above, I can change the Wait to minutes and have the program then turn on a light or something rather than the init but it still won't go beyond the first line where the variable changes. If I put the variable change half way through a program, the program runs through all steps correctly then stops as soon as the variable changes. The variable is updated correctly in line one, but the program will not go beyond that step.

I just returned from a weeks vacation to find 1/4 acre of young plants almost dead and a greenhouse full of seedlings we have been growing since January fried as with the weatherbug data unavailable my ISY ET module did not run. My programs were set to run when the irrigation requirement was > 1/4" which would have been almost every day with the heatwave and winds in N California right now but unfortunately with weatherbug down the requirement sat at 0 all week and my plants had no water. Sure would be nice to have some support for our Oregon Scientific weather stations directly available in ISY or at least an option to use wunderground which isn't great but is WAY more reliable than the notoriously unstable weatherbug backyard system.

I have a 1/2 acre vegetable garden with 24 irrigation valves controlled by 3 Ez-Flora's & and an ISY99. Our crops range from carrots to Tomatoes & Peppers which all have very different requirements as far as irrigation goes, so, in prior years I have used a program for each valve which runs for a set amount of time based roughly on the requirements of each plant (i.e. if crop X on Valve 1 needs 1 gallon, operate valve 1 for 2hrs, if Crop Y on valve 2 requires 1/2 gallon then operate valve 2 for 1hr etc..) - I based the run times on the estimated plant requirements for a week, for example, if my tomatoes need 3 inches per week I could either run the program for X amount of time 6 times a week, or for Y time 3 times a week but it isn't that simple due to changing heat and wind paterns here in Northern California. Some times plants were over watered using this method, other they needed extra. Ultimately though, a lot of water was wasted irrigating on fixed days rather than just when the plants need water, which is why I oped to try the ISY Irrigation module. Anyway, I have now purchased the ISY irrigation module and I am hoping desperately to be able to create DAILY programs that vary the length of runtime for each valve daily based on the ISY's Irrigation Needed data. For example, if I know 1 inch in ISY Irrigation Required = 1hr Valve runtime (I know it isn't 1:1 I'm using that to explain what I'm trying to achieve), then after setting the IF On time (i.e. 2am every day) I would like the program to activate at 2am then act upon the ISY data, turning the valve on for 1hr if 1" of irrigation is required, half an hour if half an inch is required or 2 hours if 2" is required etc... When Valve 1 completes it will run the Valve 2 program so on then the final valve program will 'Complete Cycle' and be ready to collect data the following day. Has anyone tried to accomplish this yet and if so, could you please point me in the right direction? I have been searching the forum and found mention of people 'going to try' with the new module but as yet I haven't been able to find any example programs I can modify for my needs. Thank You in advance for taking the time to read this. Regards Mark

Thank You Tim - That is what I was looking for

Hello, I just purchased the ISY Irrigation module and am trying to set up my programs however none of the links I can find for the Irrigation Calculator work anymore. Does someone have a working link for the calculator or an offline version that can be downloaded anywhere? Thank You Mark

Thank You all very much for your assistance - I spent the weekend re-writing all of my programs for feeders, irrigation & heatlamps to incorporate the new code you taught me how to use. It could be weeks or months before I know for sure it works as designed but I really appreciate your efforts in getting me all setup with programs to ensure everything works as well as possible. Mark

Xathros, I'm curious as to what you said about expanding the program you suggested to run when the feeders turn on to ensure the animals get fed - As some of the feeders only run for 10 seconds or so, wouldn't the program have already sent the feeder off command by the time a second program had checked to see if the devive was actually on? Also, if it is possible to do this, would the check be able to complete in time for the feeder to shut off that quickly if the device had indeed turned on at first attempt when it was supposed to? Thank You

Thank You - I just created the program as described but can't see any option to 'Run at startup', the only check box i have is 'Enabled' - Where would I find this?

Thank You Xathros, I just re-wrote my programs to try your suggestions (having never used variables, or understood their use I would never have come up with that). I won't really know until the next storm how well it works but I am very happy to have things in place that SHOULD take care of my problem. TJF1960, thank you also for your eply - My isy is not on backup power so please explain the work around which would allow me to tigger programs to run after a reboot. That could be very useful to me not just with the feeders but also in ensuring irrigation valves are turned off after a power outage if they were on at the time. Thank You all again VERY much.

Thank You - In theory that may work, however, the glitch is that I have over 20 feeders, some run at fixed times, others run based on sunrise/sunset, some rune once a day, others run up to 6 times a day and the real awkward part is that when we have new animals born the feeder may run twice a day for the first few weeks, then up to 6 times a day while they grow, then change again to an adult feeding schedule. Depending on whether we are dealing with chickens or pigs these changes can literally all happen within the space of 8 weeks or be over the course of 6 months. Trying to keep up with all the changes on all those feeders and manually adjusting the 'check' program based on real time would be almost impossible, that is why I am hoping to find a way that allows for action based on how long a device has been in the 'On' state. Thank You Mark