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The harmony elite is great, I have been using harmony remotes for a really long time, and recently upgraded one to the elite and the added convenience of controlling lights with hard buttons on this remote is awesome. I do this with my ISYHelper program running on a RPi which also allows you to see all lights on the harmony display and control and see their current level. Since doing this, our two bedside insteon remotes rarely get used. I am considering adding restful-harmony support to ISYHelper to allow Alexa to control the remote locally instead of thru IFTTT. Sent from my Pixel C using Tapatalk

Or for a simple way on a RPi use ISYHelper http://forum.universal-devices.com/index.php?/topic/16787-ISYHelper:-Interface-older-foscam's,-Maker-IFTTT,-Amazon-Echo,-and-more#entry157558 Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

I had requested this thread be split up a long time ago and was denied. So I split out my efforts to a separate one http://forum.universal-devices.com/index.php?/topic/16787-ISYHelper:-Interface-older-foscam's,-Maker-IFTTT,-Amazon-Echo,-and-more Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

I agree Barry, and my response was short, but what I meant is since he was saying he was a novice to all this, the first step in debugging would be to enter the url in a browser to make sure it is acceptable. Then you can debug if what you are saying is properly sent from the echo. Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

IMO, the easiest way to test different urls is to enter them in your browser. Then you see exactly what the ISY replied with. Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

Usually for fans you create a high, medium, and low scene with the fan motor as a responder at the appropriate level. Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

The way ISYHelper handles this is when instruct Alexa to turn on or off a scene, it sends the command to the scene, when you give a brightness level, it sends that to the controller of the scene. This works well for me in all of the common cases. For example, I have "kitchen cans" which is a scene that is controlled by 2 switchlinc's. So I put the Spoken property "kitchen cans" on the switchlinc that has the load attached to it. So, when I say "turn on kitchen cans" it sends the scene on command, if I say "set kitchen cans to 50 percent" it sends the brightness command to the switchlinc device. I do it this way because I want the scene to come on when I say "turn on" so all responders react as they should, but it also allows changing brightness. I've considered having it set the brightness level of all dimmable responders, but I haven't done that yet. This works well for my usage, and I don't want to start a debate on insteon scenes and brightness That has been discussed may times on this forum

New version of ISYHelper has been released: http://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/16787-isyhelper-interface-older-foscams-maker-ifttt-amazon-echo-and-more/

Sorry, I guess it only works if you have the amazon store card. Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

I got it for $88 earlier today. Promo code ECHODEAL and sign up for amazon store card another $20 gift card, and 5% cash back! Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

And an additional $50 off if you have the amazon store card and use the promo code ECHODEAL Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

I still like Missy http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Missy which works, and would mean My ISY. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

I know you said it shouldn't be related to ISY or Izzy, but I was thinking "Missy" for "My ISY" The #2 and 3 definitions fit well? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Missy

Michel, hopefully changing the spoken name was one of the changes? http://forum.universal-devices.com/index.php?/topic/16949-Echo-and-Insteon-ISY-Devices?&do=findComment&comment=151719The WAF with the Alexa is awesome, and I know mine would rather say Izzy than ISY

I would be interested.

My runs were not that long so I wasn't concerned.

I wanted to use that one but it wouldn't fit, so I used http://www.smarthome.com/seco-larm-sm-300q-wh-surface-mount-magnetic-contact-switch-normally-open.html and there is a normally closed one as well. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

I used a magnetic switch wired to an IoLinc at nearby area that was protected from weather, or you could connect the switch to a TriggerLinc. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

It looks correct to me. Occasionally when playing with scenes for a KPL I have had strange issues, so I factory reset the KPL then write the KPL again. Try that with both of them. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

Sorry, different ISYHelper, I named mine before I saw there was an old unsupported Android app with that name Yes in the Admin UI, right click on a device and select notes, inside that popup is an option to set the spoken property, and with ISYHelper you can set it to 1 which means the same as the device name. Fauxmo can control anything, but only currently understands on and off, but I use that to control my harmony hub with Maker thru ifttt. http://forum.universal-devices.com/index.php?/topic/16787-ISYHelper:-Interface-older-foscam's,-Maker-IFTTT,-Amazon-Echo,-and-more

I'm glad someone else had an issue with the emulator code being copied to the bridge instead of just forked. I would be annoyed if that was my code, which is one reason I have not chosen that route. But hopefully the original author was involved in that decision. ISYHelper automatically configures the fauxmo bridge from the ISY devices spoken property, and controls scenes from the spoken property of the scene controller. I am close to getting multiple fauxmo's running on the same RPi so it can do more than 16 devices. I am also working with the author of a forked version of the hup-upnp and should get that working soon. I have it working with my harmony hub, so it shouldn't be much more to get the echo to recognize it. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

1) the wemo was simplier to setup, and already inside ISYHelper is written in python which is easier for me to modify, and seems much faster than calling the Java Hue emulator, at least for me, but is limited to 16 devices, which seems to be an Echo limit. I'm trying to get the python Hue emulator working with the Echo, since I have it working with my harmony hub already. 2) yes, the emulator fakes out the Echo into thinking it's talking to a Hue hub, but it's talking to the ISY. 3) There is a post somewhere, I think in this thread from Michel, and I'm pretty sure he said it will use the new portal, but not positive. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

Why not just start samba on your RPi? Pretty simple, then you can just add network location on your windows machine. http://raspberrywebserver.com/serveradmin/share-your-raspberry-pis-files-and-folders-across-a-network.html

Yes, it would have been nice to have a sub-forum for the Echo instead of this huge thread. I assume you are asking how to have the Echo control your scenes thru the ISY. If so, the first post details the methods, although there are new versions of the Hue Emulator and WeMo Emulator now, and there is a separate program to generate a config file for the Hue Emulator. A few people are working on different ways to set this up, my work has been to integrate the WeMo emulator into my python program running my my RPi https://github.com/jimboca/ISYHelper which allows you to use the Spoken note configured directly in the ISY, or run IFTTT Maker actions. The only issue is you are limited to 16 devices registered to each RPi.

Same here. I would like it all running on a single RPi since they use very little power. I am playing with the upnp for the fauxmo to try and get the echo to see more that 15 devices, my initial attempt didn't work so I am studying up on upnp... I prefer fauxmo since it's lighter weight than the hue java program, can be called within my ISYHelper and I'm better at python.