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+1, but I knew I was too dumb to figure it out before I started. I was waiting for the video on youtube!

Kram, what's the revision level of this switch? Might help with others down the road. No Toggle Lincs here, but I seem to recall reading they tend to have a few more issues on the boards over at Smarthome, especially relative to the number of people that have them installed.

sure why not!

I was thinking the same thing, between the bottom of the cushion and the springs that support it. However, your idea with the duct tape backing for the foil with the 1/8" foam separator is pure genius.

Anyone come up with inexpensive insteon hacks for a chair or couch sensor? Maybe something that uses a trigger linc? or a water filled tube we could adapt the leak sensor to, so when you sit down on the cushions it tilts it one way or another and we get a transmission? I read someplace about a fairly spendy sensor that you glue to a floor joist with epoxy, but between that and a wireless insteon sensor, it was over $100.00. My thought on usuage is presence notification, adjustability so I can make the dogs not trip it. With presence I can bring up the lights if the remote is paused and the couch / chair becomes un-occupied. Also if the lights are on, no one is moving, no one is sitting, then I can probably turn off the lights faster and save money. Alan

Bsobel, what are you using to talk back and forth, or just listen?

On that very vein I was playing with the other perl_util download from the wiki entries on programming. I can get some responses, but need to figure out the encoding for user name and url to get the subscription really tied up. Not sure what i will do with it from there or what the program does, but it's a step by step process thus far. Far easier to just buy the network module (waiting for a sale ;0), have my existing irrexec use wget with rest commands to update status variables and then use the network module to send the iTach command as a command down the line and the IP2IR with emitters would handle the tv, stereo and such. Could have that up probably in a hour or so. BUT I am learning and hope to get even more flexibility out of the Pi and a subscription method. Thinking of a heartbeat, that way if the pi doesn't update in x number of minutes, it gets power cycled and the init scripts restart everything. I don't know how long term stable lircd, igdaemon, irexec, ir send are. Should they be cycled every night at 3:00 am etc. I haven't come across any long term issues on the boards yet. Alan

with the help of this handy little website to convert cpan modules for perl to apt-get packages. http://deb.perl.it/debian/cpan-deb/ I was able to install the LWP::UserAgent package and the XML::Simple package. This allows the perl modules Peter wrote to talk to the ISY, list the variables, set variables etc. Next step will be starting to figure some sort of subscription to the ISY, in that I can then get updates from the ISY for whatever it will send out in that manner. I assume, at the very least, you can monitor the value of variables being changed and update variables in a quick fashion. It's my hope that I can get the conversation going so that when I hit a remote button and I update a variable, the isy can send me back what the irsend program on the pi is supposed to do next, etc. I suppose I could look at some sort of webserver on the pi that would execute perl modules with the various calls. Anyone with some experience with this stuff care the chat and shorten a newbies learning curve?

Tonight I was able to get the irsend command figured out. and just for the search engines an example of the --count=2 option is counter intuitive: irsend --count=2 SEND_ONCE yamaha yamaha_volume_up You still need the SEND_ONCE in there that makes no sense to me. My current iTach ir cable I am using may be a bit too weak, but I have more playing to do with placement etc. Next few days will be figuring out the perl programming scripts and seeing what I can wrap together. Alan

In your case the "GCLink" will be the middle man? I bought one of those as well, not knowing that it could not "receive" commands out of the air. It is pretty slick to send codes from. It's a $100 investment and that pretty much covers both the Pi and the iguanaworks and the emitters and splitters. Plan to spend a little time looking for the utility that lets me send the codes out the lirc transmitter next and then figure out the rest of the middle man code. Ultimately, I hope to init script all the programs so when the kids unplug the pi I don't have to log in and restart it all. That will make it more like the iTach devices where they just work.

SUCCESS! With a lot of help from Ben at iguanaworks.net, I know have my Raspberry pi translating a couple of Tivo remote buttons to a rest command to update the isy state variables. Next few days I will flesh this out and post an article on the wiki. But the basic gist is: Raspberry Pi version B follow instructions on iguanaworks.net site to apt-get their drivers and compile lirc test out the lirc and igdaemon are working run irrecord from lirc to "learn" your remote buttons combine the config files start up the lirc daemon create a .lircrc config file for use with irexec and start it as a daemon adjust your programs in the isy to respond to variable updates and if you have the networking module (which I don't yet) then I could send commands back to the Pi when I write up some sort of listener app to send IR out the iguanaworks transceiver or some other ir blaster you can talk to. e.g. a ip2ir from iTach. Right now I just update a occupied variable, but plan to really flesh this out in the next few weeks after I get the network module. Alan

There are some good thoughts in there. The recycling reminder is a good one, always have to think really too hard about that one!

Ah, ok. I always seem to think in Boolean when I see values being flagged, not as a dual purpose. Someday the ISY will handle Boolean and there are lots of little tricks one can do with that and string manipulatoins, I suppose one day we will have those too and true date functions. I haven't decided what all I am going to do with it, but could maybe run my sprinklers with the every three days if we don't have a module sale between now and the start-up of irrigation. If we ever get Hue support all native like, i could use the holidays to very up the outside lighting color.. Alan

The hops left = 0 is a clue you need some more dual band devices on the network. When it is 0, you never know if your signals will really reach from the motion sensor to the network. Alan

That will be pretty nice. May spring for it then. On the consumer level do we get the ability to swap "interfaces" amoungst ourselves? Anyone know off the top of their head if iRule supports Lirc via plug in or something? Alan

Thank you, I spent an hour or so this morning setting up the variables and changing the programs to use the proper variables because I have a few in use already and that messed up the number system. I noted on your screen capture that it thinks that iEvery.third.week and iEvery.fourth.week are true currently. At midnight will get a notification email of what I thinks the date is if it's off or not. Alan

How does it function from the ISY admin console? (You will want to control the SCENE, not the individual devices) If it works perfectly from the admin console, then set event viewer level 3 and try from Mobilinc again. Do you see any attempts from the ISY to control the switches/scene? Alan

Did you set up the date and time variables that are named..

what phone do you have that sends a WOL? With tasker and an call to the rest interface, you can get that now too. Something on my list to work on. Someone was having extra browser windows open from the rest calls and was hoping to find a way to close them seemed to be the only draw back.

Mfranzel: I have the same sort of function within a few keypads around the house with a All off function. I am not yet to the point where I want a keypad button lite if something is ON, but I am solving the issue of the keys not being at the correct status. What was central to my setup was the make sure the keys are a responder to any and all scenes that CAN turn off that light. e.g. I have a program that shuts down the lights in the living room if no activity with a button press, and someday with motion. I did not have those keypad keys in the scene upstairs_dark_sc. And therefore whenever that scene ran, those keypad lights were still on. This morning, I added all those buttons on a couple of keypads to the upstairs_dark_sc and that should keep them in sync going forward. The second issue I will resolve, is i have my all lights off button so it triggers the program when it turns on, which causes it to be lit. I will instead, program that keypad button, to be toggle off and tell the computer to use that as the trigger so that the all lights will not be lit when I press it. Then I will start on your thoughts of having it lit if some light in the house is on someplace. But I think you will always have to programmically do this with a bit of a messy if if if if tree.

Thanks IndyMike. I had not considered refrigerator type seals, which would block out the air better. Ever since the doors went in, there was always a light gap someplace on the seal, so when I drilled my deadbolt holes and used the little cups I offset them about 1/4" to bring the door up tight. I also use the large steel strike plates that are 18" or so tall and put a LOT of big *** screws into the reinforced jam. Short of putting a steel plate along the inside of the door jam edge, it's as strong as I can make it to kickin. I had considered tapering the deadbolt myself, but the magnetic seals may do the ticket. I have one door I need to cut loose and reset for height after a hardwood floor made it impossible to keep a rug where the dogs go in and out. May look at that project soon.

OH throwing the bolt. The wife would like that.. But I make my deadbolts pull the door TIGHT on the seal, so curious how much torque these little motors might have. Alan

cruising kickstart this morning and came across the project for the almond+: Which apparently has a product on Amazon already for a router with good reviews. What caught my eye was promise of an API and inclusion of both Zigbee and Zwave integration, no insteon though (unless they get to a million in pledges). But perhaps with the API, one might be able to get their Zwave support, Zigbee support, and presence that some of you have hacked into your DD-wrt routers. The show it as a full GCC toolchain, so some real programming would be necessary vs our click and point if then else, but sounds promising it could update the ISY. Also says it can work as a Home Automation hub.

Oh smart cats. Got any photos of this feeder boxing match? You should also youtube it, cat videos are huge. Something like "boxing cat gets free food". I would think an IO linc with the 4 input outputs could possibly be used with a time to latch set for however many seconds you need the device to open/rotate. Bonus would be if they could run on the current the io linc can provide.

Now, those of you with Z-wave. Are the motion sensors more reliable in reporting than the Insteon ones? I am even considering buying a pet proof wired PIR and rigging it to a Raspberry Pi and using the rest interface to get the motion!