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you just list them all with an or between them. One program, all the switches listed. if control switch_1 is switched on or control switch_1 is switched off or control switch_2 is switched on or control switch_3 is switched off etc etc

Pretty impressive set up using his mobile phone and tasker with another piece or two of software and the micasverda. Will have to do some checking to see if I can make up the same functionality with the ISY. Elvisimpersonator did a great job with the iphone. Anyone figure out how to use the rest interface securely with a non-rooted android yet? Alan

Thanks Michel. I'm still a little confused.. What's the advantage to paying for a CA issued certificate versus doing a self signed? What are good places to get a CA issued one if I decided to go that route? So for using mobilinc (tablets, phone, kindle) with a port forwarded router, a few laptops, occassional outside the network machine, what am I going to experience on phones and tablets? How do i get a certificate on an android phone or tablet, especially a kindle. Alan

I have been wondering the same thing. My isy warns me the certificate is the stock on when I connect outside my local network.

Only a couple dual band in the house, but 5 or so access points. Even with an access point on two plugs in a bedroom, 7 feet apart and a keypad linc into the same outlet as one of them. I can still have "issues" programming that keypad when I add scenes etc. Maybe UPB is perfect, but insteon is probably 96% or so in most of the house. It's good enough to keep going with it. I've got a few filters, and the microwave just burned out a filter, not sure that that was about as I have not taken it apart as a post mortem. But at $29.00 it's a little obnoxious.

What add on board does it take for a Pi to bring digital and analog inputs in, 8 to 16 would be nice? Thinking of adding one for one-wire and some vegetronix moisture sensors in the grass, flower boxes, etc.

Ecobee support should be coming. They have an API published unlike the Nest. They have their own app to manage the thermostat before UDI gets to adding communications with the ISY994i. Alan

While doing some housework last night, the lights turned off on everyone because every light in the house was on already so no one had hit a switch for over an hour, which tells the ISY the house is not occupied (motion sensors from smarthome for insteon are not reliable or pet immune). Therefore the WAF went down a notch and the boy started complaining about the stupid lights going off all the time. So I thought I would whip up a little "warning" flash of a central light that one could notice and know that you need to tap a light switch if you want to stay in the light vs the dark. This doesn't work so good: If Status 'Media_Popcorn' is not Off Then Set Scene 'Media_popcorn_sc' Fast Off Else Set Scene 'Media_popcorn_sc' Fast On Invert the light, if it is on turn it off, it is off turn it on. Used for notifying some lights are about to turn off due to inactivity It does a lovely job of flashing the lights forever and tying up the insteon bus. I thought have disabling the program right after the scene change and then re-enabling it in my timer program, but that seems a kludge. I imagine one of you has a dandy little idea to solve my dilemma. If I run this an even number of times, the lights go back to the state they were in, since we have no variables to save that stuff in directly, it becomes another whole set of programs. Thanks Alan

Curious from the outside (they are 50 miles away with smart meters in my area on a whole different utility supplier). is it you expect the meter to tell you what price you are paying at the current time, or ?? When I had a simple pulse counter on my meter, I did the logic in my program that if I used x kwh it was displayed at this amount, when I went over that (cumulative) then it became this much per kWh, and the next tier was this much. Personally looking at going to the GEM when the firmware from Brultech and the Firmware from UDI mesh up with all it's capabilities, it might be years before my local utility get's their act together. We are still paying for Enron losses on our rates! But I have to say since I put in the ISY and did some programming to turn off lights automatically, and to not bring some up to 100% all the time, light bulbs burn out less often, my electrical costs have plummeted as well. Alan

A couple pressure sensors in beds, chairs, to the couch can help too. I've ordered a triggerlinc to make one up for the basement movie watching couch. Alan

There is a wiki entry for a series of programs that provide a lot of calendar functions, holidays, every third week, every other day, every third day, etc.. An hour or so setting them up and you are good to go once the variables are set correctly. I've been looking at a Pi or a CAI board with some of the Vegetronix moisture sensors. They start at $35 each and go up to $50 or so if you get a really long cable. I saw a Toro device that was wireless that you just stepped on to place in your lawn, but their system only handled one of those. Ideally would be a vegetronix sensor, a robust case, solar, some sort of storage battery or caps, and zwave or zigbee radio. Use some dip switches or let it have a little setup function in the ISY to assign it to a zone. Mwareman, check out the MP Rotator heads for the sprinklers. They are fabulous, put out the water very slowly, extremely little affect from the wind, and since they put the water out slow, you don't have big run off. I can walk along my sidewalk on a windy day and stay dry with them on, seriously. We are not talking 25 mile per hour gusts here, but a breezy day is not an issue for them. Also since they are so frugal, the amount of water you loose into the air as mist is extremely minimal. Alan

Yeah for Ecobee.. The slab sensor goes into the bathroom floor concrete board this morning when the tile guy shows up.. Then I can start fishing lines to the shop and the bathroom so when the big sale from someplace hits the commercial unit I can handle three "zones" in one thermostat.. I think another of UBE's issue is no physical feedback. The Smarthome insteon are feedback weak, but much better than the old X-10 switches. Alan

Be curious to UBE even makes it a year. It appears everyone and their dog is coming out with their own protocols, own hardware, own hubs, own scripting. Personally I would like a display touch screen on the UBE that could show the weather, temps, power consumption, all kinds of little things on the switch it self. Also every light switch should have a motion sensor in them, be great for room detection..

Wow, at least they tell you about the issue. One would think they could use a little better component and solve that "feature". I wish they would tell you on the customer button page that Gray is opaque. Even in a black room you basically cannot read the buttons through the gray. Maybe someday will find a buddy with a laser engraver again and have him make me a set from blanks that go clear THROUGH the button face and then maybe they can be read.

If Time is 3:00:00PM And $iEvery.Other.Day.Counter is 0 Then Set 'EzFlora - 6 Greenhouse' On Wait 15 minutes Set 'EzFlora - 6 Greenhouse' Off Send Notification to 'Alan_Only.email' content 'Irrigation Cycle' Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') Greenhouse should be Valve 5, run for 15 minutes every other day I get a notification every day instead of every other day. There is no reason the Then should run every day. I get the Notification at 3:00 if it does not run, and 3:15 if it does. Alan

I was expecting that the variables that control the irrigation module are all listed as integer or state variables and not hidden away from view.

I would add, change your weatherbug inquiry time. every minute or so is too often for them, and some report outside their terms of service and they can block you. Are there variables you cannot get at in the module, I would think if you reset the init value and then the real value that should do it.

Let us know how the dim down too. Was just testing my bathroom this morning that has a Phillips Ambient, Cree, Feit, and an incandescent. The Feit, the Cree, and the ambient all came on before the phillips. I'm playing with how low the lights can be at night when you walk in the bathroom at 2: in the morning to not blast my eyes. When I had cfl dimmables in there, it was like 40% which was just too darn bright.

I hope to never, ever experience the back up again in my lifetime. I lived to tell about it when it happened to my first house. The idea of the Insteon LED lights in each can is interesting. About $30 each for 60 watts, control them from an 8 button KPL. Hmm I am a switch on the guy kinda guy even if it was 5 of them, but the savings would be pretty big to just use those led bulbs. One could hope for native hue support from an ISY soon, more expensive per bulb, but a whole lot more fun!

Michel: To jump in here and understand better myself as I plan a GEM on my roadmap of items to do sometime this year. However, I am not sure I want to go zigbee as it limits me on potential zwave items like door locks unless zigbee really gets their consortium into gear here. I'm looking at the ethernet version of the GEM. So my questions would be: 1. Does the ISY support the ethernet version of GEM NOW? a. FULL support e.g. all 32 nodes are visible and fully implemented in control actions etc. 2. Do I have to set up polling for the ethernet version? How is this different than the Zigbee version? a. what do I give up if I am polling, or what is the affect on the ISY if it polls vs subscribed (does the zigbee version subscribe to the GEM?) Thanks Alan

Try something different like a kickstarter campaign to build some publicity, earn the money for the investment in pre-paid sales of ISY994zs units. We want you to grow, be successful, and add more features!

I would call the local utility regulation office and make an inquire about that practice! My local utility is testing in a college town about 30 miles away their connected meters. May be time to bug them again!

Have you been able to talk to a human about the letter? Someone may have their wires crossed up or it's an automatic response to before the key length had been changed. Are they close enough to go visit an engineer there at the utility?

Maybe the firmware versions are different a slight change to the subscriptions process could "breaK' the isy end. To diagnose after you get what you think if one piece talking to the isy open an browser and use the rest command: http://(your isy address)/rest/subscriptions you should see a session that is not expired if the subscription was successful. Then you have one piece eliminated from your trouble shooting steps. If you have the admin console going as well, you should see TWO sessions not expired when you have eventghost and company subscribed.

I think you may have a way less expensive solution by using a pair of 8 unit relay modules, like something from Smarthome init. Then you can use a set of SSR relays. http://www.simplehomenet.com/proddetail.asp?prod=9357342309 Now really thinking outside the box, use a light animation controller like a Light O Rama controller and a raspberry pi or something. http://store.lightorama.com/ctascpa.html Alan