Javi

The app (IP Cam Viewer Pro) has a separate setup for each camera. So making a group of cameras with direct IP addresses (which change) is not a quick task as there are 12 individual cameras. These cameras are not connected to the ISY. I Have a Tasker created app which checks the network then launches a group of cameras via intent based on the network (home or not at home). My wife only has to touch the app icon and the correct group of cameras launches automatically. She does not know what to do when the group of cameras with the subdomain.dynhost.com address does not work, and according to our conversation while on vacation, has no interest in learning about how IP addresses work. It would be easy for me to check the dynhost and if it doesn't respond after a given amount of time, then launch a group of cameras with another host (such as my.isy.io) when not on the home network. The cameras have the same username, password and port but are on different channels. So my question is: Can the ISY portal be used as an IP forwarding service for my cameras in the same way as the dyndns.com forwarding?

My surveillance app triggers groups of cameras based on my network connection (home/not at home) for a fast response time. The "not at home" group is routed through dyn.com but does not always update (from router) in a timely manner. This was really frustrating while on vacation last week and my wife could not check the cameras to see if our kids where sleeping and began to worry. The ISY was responding to commands through the portal but not through dyn.com so I was able to find our (new) i.p address on my.isy.io, to look at each camera separately but it took too much work. This seems to happen frequently with dyn.com but this is the first time it has almost ruined a good time. Anyway is there a way to use the portal as an ip forwarding service as a backup for dyn.com?

I use a $50 windows tablet running EventGhost which is connected to a USB-Uirt and with the Audio jack connected to the main receiver. The USB-Uirt sends the Deseret ON command to the receiver and then switches it to the correct audio inputs and outputs and then says the command via Microsoft Speech API (eventghost plugin). ISY>Networking>udp://255.255.255.255:33333>Raw>Body = Home Water Leak (Sent to 255.255.255.255 as these commands will now be pickup by my main PC also) Received by Broadcaster plugin in EventGhost I live in an old home and have occasional water backups, the ISY will send text msg to our phones flash the lights in the bathrooms and announce the command over the receiver and my main computer if it is on. This USB uirt is also connected to a whole home IR system which controls the IR for the entire home...Not bad for $100 (tablet and USB Uirt) Also have a display emulator connected to the micro HDMI port so the tablet screen remains off

Nice work! I have not purchased an ECHO as I think being able to access the entire voice command is the only way I could use it without it feeling like a toy. I wish Amazon would just let us have access to the command without going though everything you had to do. Anyway, I wanted to suggest a few things for your tasker setup. I have setup a project (in the tasker section of this forum) that will eliminate the need for (start music|play music|turn on music) or (tv|t.v.|t. v.) and use a single regex with a list of your devices, actions, and locations. This will also give you the ability to say things naturally and chained together for example "Turn on the kitchen lights" or "Turn the kitchen lights on" and chain commands with chains linked to actions and devices for example "turn on the lights and the tv" and "turn off the kitchen, dining room, and living room lights". It has a default room option as well . I have posted the tasker xml to github but have also created an app, it would not be hard to add AutoRemote as a trigger for the project. Also the same program can be written in python to use in EventGhost...It would probably take me a couple of hours to write if I leave out the UI of the Android app. So you could setup the command links with the android UI then copy the backup from Android to EventGhost, This way you could eliminate one step which would help with latency and eliminate another possible point of failure. I'm curious, can you get the same info from the amazon app on your android device? If so, Joao may be able to add this to AutoVoice (or another AutoApp) as AutoVoice is essentially reading the screen of the Google Now Voice Search Box, and I'm Sure it would not be hard to have it read the screen of an Amazon app.

Yes, I use one without the load connected for the bathroom fan. The switch on-level leds act as a countdown timer via ISY program. I also added a switch without load in the living room so we would have switches at all entryways.

Ok, I think I found the problem. I replaced what I think is a malfunctioning ApplianceLink with a LampLink and changed its location in the kitchen, it may have been getting too hot in the previous location. This scene now works fine. I am wondering if I have another bad device in the lawn lights scene, the keypad (not directly wired to devices) used to manually turn the scene on/off has a faint buzzing sound. I'll change the scene so it is controlled by another keypad to see if the problem persists. Also I was at Wal-Mart this week and they had a clearance on the Insteon Starter Kit ( http://www.smarthome.com/insteon-2244-234-starter-kit.html) for $60. It included the Insteon Hub, and 2 LampLinks, its a great deal for 2 LampLinks...Anyone know what I could do with the Hub?

So at least one device in the scene has to be on the opposite leg? I'm not exactly sure what this means but I am assuming it means that one item has to be on a circuit on the right side of my beaker box an one from the left side of the box. Should the scene be PLM reachable if all the devices can be triggered from the ISY? Thanks

Thanks LeeG, I guess I'll have to look into the communication issue again, It just seems odd that this only happens when turning scenes on or off and I do not have the same communication issue when I do the device only. Anyway now that I have figured out that it is the scenes I can write a program to trigger devices when a keypad is pressed or add devices to the program containing the scenes, I have already changed my voice commands (http get) to send to each device instead of the scene because it was annoying when it would only turn off/on some of the devices and then I would have to reverse the desired command to reissue the desired command.

Hi Lee, This also happens when I press a button on the keypad link which is in a scene. The ISY admin console reports Items as off even though they are still on. Below is the log from me pressing the keypad On then Off (which worked fine) then On then Off (at which point one of the devices in the scene stays On). The Device which is On is reported as off in the admin console. I could not get the same behavior today (that I isolated yesterday) though an http get action. However this also happens when I trigger my lawn lights scene by a program, at times some of the devices turn on others do not but are reported as on in the admin console. If I try to turn on the scene with an http get action (voice control from phone) it will not turn on, unless I turn the scene off first. This was happening until I added the devices (contained in the scene) into the program along with the scene. I have this week off of work so I will remove the devices from the program above, maybe sometime this week the scene will not trigger and I can capture the log when I send the http get request Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:05 PM : [iNST-SRX ] 02 50 22.8F.C2 00.00.04 CF 11 00 LTONRR (00) Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:05 PM : [std-Group ] 22.8F.C2-->Group=4, Max Hops=3, Hops Left=3 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:05 PM : [D2D EVENT ] Event [22 8F C2 4] [DON] [0] uom=0 prec=-1 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:05 PM : [ 22 8F C2 4] DON 0 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:05 PM : [D2D EVENT ] Event [21 3F 90 1] [sT] [255] uom=0 prec=-1 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:05 PM : [ 21 3F 90 1] ST 255 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:05 PM : [D2D-CMP 0034] STS [21 3F 90 1] ST op=1 Event(val=255 uom=0 prec=-1) is Condition(val=0 uom=0 prec=-1) --> false Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:05 PM : [D2D-CMP 0035] STS [21 3F 90 1] ST op=1 Event(val=255 uom=0 prec=-1) is Condition(val=255 uom=0 prec=-1) --> true Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:05 PM : [D2D EVENT ] Event [22 8F C2 4] [sT] [255] uom=0 prec=-1 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:05 PM : [ 22 8F C2 4] ST 255 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:05 PM : [D2D EVENT ] Event [2D 1D 7F 1] [sT] [255] uom=0 prec=-1 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:05 PM : [ 2D 1D 7F 1] ST 255 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:05 PM : [iNST-SRX ] 02 50 22.8F.C2 11.00.04 CF 06 00 (00) Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:05 PM : [std-Group ] 22.8F.C2-->11.00.04, Max Hops=3, Hops Left=3 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:05 PM : [iNST-INFO ] Previous message ignored. Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:06 PM : [iNST-SRX ] 02 50 22.8F.C2 00.00.04 CF 13 00 LTOFFRR(00) Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:06 PM : [std-Group ] 22.8F.C2-->Group=4, Max Hops=3, Hops Left=3 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:06 PM : [D2D EVENT ] Event [22 8F C2 4] [DOF] [0] uom=0 prec=-1 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:06 PM : [ 22 8F C2 4] DOF 0 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:06 PM : [D2D EVENT ] Event [21 3F 90 1] [sT] [0] uom=0 prec=-1 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:06 PM : [ 21 3F 90 1] ST 0 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:06 PM : [D2D-CMP 0034] STS [21 3F 90 1] ST op=1 Event(val=0 uom=0 prec=-1) is Condition(val=0 uom=0 prec=-1) --> true Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:06 PM : [D2D-CMP 0035] STS [21 3F 90 1] ST op=1 Event(val=0 uom=0 prec=-1) is Condition(val=255 uom=0 prec=-1) --> false Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:06 PM : [D2D EVENT ] Event [22 8F C2 4] [sT] [0] uom=0 prec=-1 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:06 PM : [ 22 8F C2 4] ST 0 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:06 PM : [D2D EVENT ] Event [2D 1D 7F 1] [sT] [0] uom=0 prec=-1 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:06 PM : [ 2D 1D 7F 1] ST 0 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:06 PM : [iNST-SRX ] 02 50 22.8F.C2 13.00.04 CF 06 00 (00) Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:06 PM : [std-Group ] 22.8F.C2-->13.00.04, Max Hops=3, Hops Left=3 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:06 PM : [iNST-INFO ] Previous message ignored. Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:09 PM : [iNST-SRX ] 02 50 22.8F.C2 00.00.04 CF 11 00 LTONRR (00) Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:09 PM : [std-Group ] 22.8F.C2-->Group=4, Max Hops=3, Hops Left=3 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:09 PM : [D2D EVENT ] Event [22 8F C2 4] [DON] [0] uom=0 prec=-1 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:09 PM : [ 22 8F C2 4] DON 0 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:09 PM : [D2D EVENT ] Event [21 3F 90 1] [sT] [255] uom=0 prec=-1 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:09 PM : [ 21 3F 90 1] ST 255 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:09 PM : [D2D-CMP 0034] STS [21 3F 90 1] ST op=1 Event(val=255 uom=0 prec=-1) is Condition(val=0 uom=0 prec=-1) --> false Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:09 PM : [D2D-CMP 0035] STS [21 3F 90 1] ST op=1 Event(val=255 uom=0 prec=-1) is Condition(val=255 uom=0 prec=-1) --> true Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:09 PM : [D2D EVENT ] Event [22 8F C2 4] [sT] [255] uom=0 prec=-1 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:09 PM : [ 22 8F C2 4] ST 255 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:09 PM : [D2D EVENT ] Event [2D 1D 7F 1] [sT] [255] uom=0 prec=-1 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:09 PM : [ 2D 1D 7F 1] ST 255 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:09 PM : [iNST-SRX ] 02 50 22.8F.C2 11.00.04 CF 06 00 (00) Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:09 PM : [std-Group ] 22.8F.C2-->11.00.04, Max Hops=3, Hops Left=3 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:09 PM : [iNST-INFO ] Previous message ignored. Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:10 PM : [iNST-SRX ] 02 50 22.8F.C2 00.00.04 CF 13 00 LTOFFRR(00) Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:10 PM : [std-Group ] 22.8F.C2-->Group=4, Max Hops=3, Hops Left=3 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:10 PM : [D2D EVENT ] Event [22 8F C2 4] [DOF] [0] uom=0 prec=-1 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:10 PM : [ 22 8F C2 4] DOF 0 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:10 PM : [D2D EVENT ] Event [21 3F 90 1] [sT] [0] uom=0 prec=-1 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:10 PM : [ 21 3F 90 1] ST 0 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:10 PM : [D2D-CMP 0034] STS [21 3F 90 1] ST op=1 Event(val=0 uom=0 prec=-1) is Condition(val=0 uom=0 prec=-1) --> true Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:10 PM : [D2D-CMP 0035] STS [21 3F 90 1] ST op=1 Event(val=0 uom=0 prec=-1) is Condition(val=255 uom=0 prec=-1) --> false Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:10 PM : [D2D EVENT ] Event [22 8F C2 4] [sT] [0] uom=0 prec=-1 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:10 PM : [ 22 8F C2 4] ST 0 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:10 PM : [D2D EVENT ] Event [2D 1D 7F 1] [sT] [0] uom=0 prec=-1 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:10 PM : [ 2D 1D 7F 1] ST 0 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:10 PM : [iNST-SRX ] 02 50 22.8F.C2 13.00.04 CF 06 00 (00) Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:10 PM : [std-Group ] 22.8F.C2-->13.00.04, Max Hops=3, Hops Left=3 Sun 08/30/2015 12:49:10 PM : [iNST-INFO ] Previous message ignored. It does seem that the ISY is capturing all the button presses so maybe there is a problem with Insteon Scenes and the PLM reporting the scenes. My PLM failed last December and was about a year and a half old so Smarthome sent me a replacement after I returned the defective item. This happened on Christmas Eve so I had to order a new One Next day Air or be without for at least a week because of the shipping schedule after christmas. The new PLM is the one I have installed and I still have the replacement as a backup....This problem has been consistent with both the old and new PLM which was why I thought it was a communication issue, but I recently realized that this problem only happens to devices triggered by a scene. I have a filterlink and have tried placing it on different equipment and moving the ISY and PLM to another location but the problem continued. Any help would be appreciated, Javier

I have been having same issue for months now, at first I thought is was a communication issue because I have an older home with metal conduit and boxes. I finally had time to test this and it is the same. I can make a rest request to turn on a scene and it may not turn on, it will report in the Admin console as on (scene and devices) even though it is off, If I resend the "ON" command the scene will NEVER turn on until the Off command is sent and the ON command is resent, however if I send the ON command to the device (not the scene) the device will turn on even if it is shows On in the Admin Console.

My home was built in the 1948 so this may or may not work. My entire house has metal conduit. A new electrical box was installed and the conduit was grounded. Then a screw would work to ground new fixtures..... You will have to check if code in your area allows for this to be done.

Good to know, In my experience they have been getting better about security over the last year and are much harder to update without an account than they were a year ago. Also I am not connecting to the beacons when using them for location so the URL issue is not a problem for the indoor location use. Even with these issues someone would have to be in my yard to even attempt to overwrite information on the beacons...... So I would not use them to broadcast a URL, but I still feel completely safe reading power levels without connecting to the beacon. I'm sure many of us have Internet connected devices that are much more vulnerable to to attack.

Hi glacket, I have been working on the same thing for about a year on Android with Estimote BLE beacons (ibeacons) and producing unfavorably results with tasker. Then a couple of weeks ago google announced Eddystone. João Dias (creator of AutoApps tasker plugins) is now working on adding eddystone beacons to a new tasker plugin. The Estimote Android App has detection of beacons and looks promising. Their website says "Indoor Location requires 2 dev kits" so it is my assumption Estimote has indoor location working. The following is a link to joao's community discussing Eddystone. You must be a member of the AutoApps Alpha Community on Google plus to see this post! https://plus.google.com/+StefanSarzio/posts/jJdM7cjbiqj Link to Estimote website showing "Indoor Location requires 2 dev kits." http://estimote.com/#jump-to-products Googles Eddystone Announcement http://googledevelopers.blogspot.de/2015/07/lighting-way-with-ble-beacons.html?linkId=15518166 I will be testing this as soon as it comes out...if it works better then anything I have now I will add it into my "Home Automation - Chaining Voice Commands" Project http://forum.joaoapps.com/index.php?resources/home-automation-chaining-voice-commands.75/