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    Support Thread: IoX v5.9.1 (2/10/25)

    in IoX Support

    Posted

    @Guy Lavoie, I had one of the bricked Polisy units. After upgrade, the unit would respond to ping but nothing else. The Polisy was connected to a wired network.

    I opened a ticked and received an image and re-flash instruction. I re-flashed, ran the upgrade, and then reloaded my backup files and all is good.

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    Has Your Alexa Gone Mute?

    in Amazon Echo

    Posted · Edited by gviliunas

    SHE  HEARD ME! @paulbates @Northwoods Ranger

    Since July 31, Alexa's voice had been dead to me! Yesterday, I responded to Paul Bates that I would look into the alternative he suggested. This Morning........She's back chatting her morning greeting to me. 

    Here's another solution to Alexa problems: Threaten to REPLACE HER.    ☹️😮🤣 

     

    I did absolutely nothing. No reboots. Not even logging into the Admin Console.

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    Has Your Alexa Gone Mute?

    in Amazon Echo

    Posted

    For me, Alexa remains mute.....I am waiting for the Claude dust to settle before jumping into this further. This sounds like a cold winter day project. Maybe a local mp3-playing device would be better outbound solution rather than suffering hear-today-gone tomorrow Alexa-speak.  Do they make these recording doorbells anymore??? 

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    Fibaro The Button

    in Z-Wave - Series 700

    Posted

    @CPrince A year or two ago, I tried using two "The Button" and even tried one replaced under warranty and the performance was maddening! They would work for several minutes, hours, and even a day but then I would find myself "smashing" The Button many times hoping that it would turn on my desk light. Maddeningly Intermittent! Eventually, I gave up and replaced it with a wireless Insteon wall switch which has worked perfectly ever since.

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    Has Your Alexa Gone Mute?

    in Amazon Echo

    Posted

    Thanks to everyone for your advice.  @Geddy, I was testing by just manually changing the variable value from the State Variable list. Previously this worked.

    I agree the Alexa system seems rather shaky with things working, not working, and then working again after weeks. I'll just wait for awhile and see if she starts getting chatty again.

    Has Your Alexa Gone Mute?

    in Amazon Echo

    Posted · Edited by gviliunas

    After a Polisy reboot a few weeks ago, I am no longer hearing Alexa speak her Routing driven notifications. Only these Routines are affected.

    Polisy continues to respond to commands from Alexa ("Alexa - Turn on XYZ light" works)

    The Portal page says Polisy is connected. 

    I have tried unlinking, relinking, and login to the V3 Alexa Skill. Routines seem to work locally via the app. State variable mapping in the portal appear to be correct. I don't know how to check if the State variable change is getting to the Portal and then onto Alexa.

    One thing that I noticed is that Slot 1 of my plugins list is Empty. I vaguely remember this Slot originally assigned to the UD Portal. Is this correct?

    Is anyone else seeing this problem?

    ISY version: 5.8.4        PG3x version: 3.2.27

    SMTP eMail setup #2

    in IoX Support

    Posted

    @N8N , Unfortunately the default server is UDI's server which, in the past had (Not sure if still true) a shared-by-all-of-us monthly limit for messages sent  and occasionally went off-line. The advice to use Google or other SMTP server under your control was an attempt to address this unreliability.

    Now, with all the Google security changes, Google has also failed to work reliably. I think most of us have given-up on SMTP notification.

    I think that the modern accepted and reliable approach is to use a notification service like PushOver.

     

    (IL)LOGIC?

    in IoX Program Support

    Posted · Edited by gviliunas

    I fixed this problem by splitting the first program into 2. One program detects dark as <= 15 lux while the second program detects light as > 25 lux. (And removing any Else clauses)

    For me, this prevented the little cloud rolling by near sunset from causing the it's-dark....wait no it's light flip-flopping.

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    LifX failing to add all bulbs consistantly

    in LiFX

    Posted

    @leonpc, The second error that you list is the same one that you get if power is off to the LiFX light as the NS is initializing or if the IP address of the bulb has changed or if the MAC is different than specified.

    I also vaguely remember sometime back that LifX changed the MAC addresses (a slight 1-octet change easily missed) of their bulbs during a firmware update so the MACs given on the paperwork didn't match anymore and my previously-working devlist, created with that paperwork, stopped working. This killed my first implementation. If you created your devlist from the paperwork that came with the bulbs, you may want to check your router to be sure the MACs and IP are correct in in the devlist. At the time, I opened a ticket with LiFX. They acknowledged the change but offered no other help or suggestions.

    Finally, if you haven't set reserved IP addresses for your bulbs in your router, I would recommend that you do so.

    After fixing the MAC addresses in my devlist my NS has worked for several years now.

    Finally, there were rules for creating the devlist. Notepad++ was a good tool. Addresses should have lower-case letters. Names should be 14-characters or less and without special characters. Type will be 'bulb' (no quotes) or ??? (can't remember. Check the documentation if you are adding strip lights - Otherwise the type is usually bulb.

    Good Luck!

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    How can you avoid new ZWave node numbers when re-adding failed devices?

    in ZMatter

    Posted · Edited by gviliunas

    I agree with @brians, The last time I tried this was with Polisy and a Zooz 700 dongle. The only way I was able to maintain the zwave node numbers was to factory reset the dongle and then re-add the devices in the same order as previously added. With ~45 devices, it was a giant PIA. One mistake and start over. Probably better to re-add the device, accepting the new z-wave node and then fix any program issues.

    Perplexed by confusing NS Upgrade Process

    in Polyglot v3 (PG3x)

    Posted

    @bmercier @Jimbo.Automates Thanks for the update. Actually, I found another solution. I looked back at the details page of the Notification NS and discovered an "Update" button adjacent to the Start, Stop, Restart, and Load Profile buttons. (Sorry, no screen shot) I clicked this button and now I was presented with the "Available purchase/install options" page BUT, this time the NS slot number was populated. (Sorry, the screen shot was the original that I took when navigating directly from the Purchases page. In this case, "N24" was shown on one of the option lines)

    I clicked "Update" on the line containing my "N24" installed designation and the NS upgraded properly.

    To sum it up, it appears that "Installed" column of the "Available purchase/install options" page is populated or not based on how you arrived at this page.

    Step 2. Now what to pick.jpg

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