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I cannot find any information on how to use the LIFX plugin. I am currently controlling my LIFX lights using the old networking resources, but would like to use the plugin. I only have a few LIFX lights but can't see how to add them to the plug in. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

I’m using about a half dozen notifications through the notification node server and they seem to work fine with my iphone. At this point, I’m not sure if there is any value in trying to implement telegram (or even pushover).

Thanks for the response, but if you read further in the post, I managed to remove the telegram service- but I’m not sure how I did it. thanks

I have installed the LIFX node server from the PG3x plugin store. I have it in slot 3. I have tried to follow the instructions in https://lifx-nodeserver.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage.html#how-to-use but this seems to be focused on downloading from GITHUB and not loading it from the plugin store. I have also read through anything I could find in the forum and I couldn't find anything in the wiki. to Anyway, when I go into POLYGLOT, and look at the LIFX node, it says that it is DISCONNECTED. I can't seem to find any way get it connected. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks for the explanation re: the multi function button. I never actually use that to cycle the power, I essentially disconnect it from power and reconnect it. This “seemed” to have less impact on the system as using the admin console to reboot. After the power cycle, the EISY simply restarted. But after the reboot, I got a message saying the system has been updated- which seems like more activity to me.

More info: I had cycled power before my initial writeup. I didn't realize that a reboot (from the admin console) is a different animal, so I did that today. It still hangs up in network resources. I don't know when this issue started but I had switched over to EISY a few months ago and set up UDMobile at that time and had done several synchronizations while setting up UDM. I have made a few recent changes to my network resources in order to utilize the notification node server, but I think I saved everything I changed. I'll try to save them all again.

I have an ISY portal account, but cannot find where to open a ticket.

I have been trying to run the synchronization of my UD mobile to the EISY and it starts off OK, syncing a bunch of stuff including programs and "optional", but when it gets to "Getting Network Resource files from ISY", it hangs up and never completes. I tried letting it run overnight last night and it never completed. I'd like to make sure that UDM and the EISY are synchronized before I go on a trip. Thanks, Bob M

After I wrote the note above, I decided to look around at the PG3 page. there I found that I had 3 nodes, so I clicked on it to discover 1 of them was the Telegram node and there was an x icon next to it. I clicked on the x and it started to delete the telegram node. I restarted Admin console and it was gone...

it is something that you have to add... it is a service that works with the notification node server that is supposed to make it easier (I think) to set up notifications. (I really don't understand it but wanted to try it.) So I followed the instructions for how to install in and it doesn't seem to work because it has the red exclamation point next to it. No one has helped me figure out what is wrong, so now I just want to delete it, but I can't figure out how to do that either. Here is a screenshot.

Since no one offered any assistance with fixing the red exclamation point, can someone help me remove the service entirely. thanks

It took me a while to get notifications working with the notification node server the way I want (no experience with this type of software). Then I thought it'd be a good idea to try to implement telegram (I also have no experience with that). I tried to follow the instructions, but am not sure I did it correctly. (although there were no errors reported while doing it. It took me a while to find how to add the bot to the configuration page of the notification node server, but I got through it with no errors reported. When I look at Admin console, I see the telegram service right under UD mobile but it has a red exclamation point icon (which I believe is an error). And when I try to add a notification to a program, I don't see where telegram is selectable. I know I'll probably have to provide some data, but at this point I don't know what to provide. TIA

Thanks for the response. I finally got it to work the way I want it to. I wasn't sure what the following sentence meant - should it be checking the status of the 3 KPLs or of the scene (although It appears you can't check the status of a scene), should I create a new program or modify the existing one, should it be enabled or disabled.... So since I wanted to use Alexa routines to run set home and set away, and I didn't know how to have a routine run a Then or an ELSE, I created 2 programs with only THENs, one to run set home and one to run set away. I gave them each unique spokens. I then wrote Alexa routines so I can say I'm leaving or I'm home and it will respond with appropriate sayings and do other stuff that isn't connected to EISY (yet). There may be an easier way to do this, but this is working now, so I'm happy. Thanks

HISTORY: In my ISY994, I had a scene called HOME. It has only 3 KPL push buttons in it that are all controllers. So pushing any one of them turns the scene on or off. There are also two (enabled) programs (SET HOME or SET AWAY) that check the control of each of those switches and then does stuff (sets variables, turns things on or off, etc). I was using mobilinc at the time and I gave the home scene a name HOME that was seen by Alexa. I had an Alexa routine such that if I said ‘Alexa, I’m leaving, it would turn the scene off and the program SET AWAY would run, and conversely, if I said Alexa, Im home, the scene would turn on and the program SET HOME would run. TODAY’s problem: So I switch to EISY and try to implement this in UD mobile. I have a Favorite in UD mobile called HOME. It is a conditional favorite that runs a disabled program called set away/home. So when I push the button on UDM, it runs either SET HOME or SET AWAY, and the scene HOME that contains the 3 KPLs changes state and all the stuff that is supposed to happen, happens as expected. This works fine. When I tried to implement this in Alexa, I couldn’t get it to work. So I just tried manually changing the state of HOME SCENE from the HOME SCREEN of UDM and although the 3 KPLs change state when I do that, neither program (SET HOME or SET AWAY) run. This doesn’t seem right to me. So I decided to look at one of the 3 KPLs on the HOME page of UDM and I noticed that it just shows the status of the switch, there is no way to change that status. And when I change the status of the Home SCENE from the HOME SCREEN, the status of each of the 3 switches changes but it doesn’t trigger the programs that are linked to them. Right now, I can’t figure out how to give something an Alexa name and have these programs run. Is there another way for me to get this working with Alexa? Thanks

Thanks. Found it.

So I've made good progress on setting up alexa using UD mobile. I deleted the Mobilinc skill from Alexa. Then I removed all the devices that were linked to Alexa via mobilinc (I couldn't find the FORGET ALL, that is talked about in several places, so I did it manually. Then I used UD mobile on the HOME page, Devices and Scenes and one by one, added a spoken for each of the items I want to control via Alexa. I told Alexa to discover devices and most of it worked as expected. I had one scene named "All kitchen lights" and its spoken was "All kitchen lights". I thought I should just simplify this to the spoken "Kitchen Lights". But when I tried to do this, UD mobile told me that spoken was already used. So I went back through each and every device and scene in the kitchen folder of UD and cannot find a spoken "kitchen". Is there a way to easily find this device? Note that if I open Alexa and look at all devices - sure enough there is a device named Kitchen lights. If I try to turn it on or off, nothing happens (Alexa beeps as if it accepts and executes the command. (I've walked through the house and no lights are on.) I've deleted the Kitchen lights device from Alexa, re-discovered devices and it shows up again. Any clue on how I should proceed? Thanks, Bob

Again I want to thank all of you for helping. I think I was making it more difficult than it had to be. I am either finished with developing my UD mobile page or very close. Thanks all.

I want to thank all of you for helping me. It has become much easier now that I’ve gotten the hang of it. They were all good tips. Another question or 2 though - how does UD mobile treat scenes. I wanted to turn on or turn off a scene and couldn’t seem to get it. Regarding programs - it seems that if I already have a program with if conditions, then actions and else actions and I want to also have UD mobile control them, i should set up additional programs that are disabled just for UD mobile. (Since UD mobile only executes the IF statement.) Is this correct?

Thanks - found it.

Thanks Javi, Some questions: 1) I’m not sure what screen you’re talking about. (Statues? And command?) 2) merely adding things to the favorites screen is not really my issue, it’s setting up the button once it’s there. For example, how do I set up a button for a device such that I push the button and it turns the deviceon and push it again and it turns the device off? It is not obvious to me. And similarly, for a program, one push to run then, and another push to run else? Thanks

Dennis, Thanks for your suggestion. I tried to use UD mobile initially and found it to be very difficult to set up. I realize that it is very powerful, but that power comes at the cost of having to set up each and every button in minute detail - set the color of each and every icon color using a hex code - REALLY?. So that’s why I wanted to use Mobilinc. Mobilinc is not quite as powerful, but it is easy to set up and start using. I can setup a whole page of mobilinc buttons in about an hour. But in UD mobile, it’s taking me tens of hours and I only have a few buttons set up (and some of those still don’t work the way I want.) In addition, mobilinc makes the interface to alexa trivial, while UD portal requires a very detailed definition of each and every program, devlce, scene, etc that you wish to control, one by one- again hours and hours of definition. Dennis & Geddy, Since I got mobilinc mostly working, I was on the path to use it, but I ran into a problem using geofencing. Wes from mobilinc told me that I would have to set up port forwarding for that to work. It’s been so long since I’ve done that (and I believe there are other issues with doing that), that I am again trying to get UD mobile to fit my needs. The things I use (from the ISY994) are network resources (to control lutron shades and LIFX lights), and geofencing so the system knows when we are home or not. So my plan now is to continue to define UD mobile, then move on to setting up alexa on UD portal. Which leads me to one more question: For the geofence processing to work correctly, I need UD mobile on both my iphone and my wife’s. Is there an easy way to copy my final configuration from my phone to my wife’s? (Again, mobilinc provides this function with a button push on each device (very easy). Or do i have to do everything twice? thanks, Bob

Geddy, Thanks for all the help, I am not getting much support from the mobilinc team. Here is where I am at: 1) you asked: The answer is I was using the mobilinc portal with mobilinc on the 994. I went into UD portal and again verified that the EISY has a green dot next to it, and that it is now the "preferred device", and in the admin console, the UD portal is connected. I do not know what else is involved in ensuring that the UD portal is setup correctly. Since I last wrote, I decided to uninstall Orchestrated mobilnc. I was going to re-install it, but it's not in the app store anymore, so I bought mobilinc pro and downloaded it. I tried several times using the ISY portal connection and the mobilinc portal connection (which I could never get past the initial page where I was trying to associate my new EISY serial number, but it never worked). Finally, I decided to go back to the ISY portal on mobilinc pro and re-enter everything, and all of sudden, it synced. Thank you!!! So now I have a few questions: 1) are there any limitations on the EISY side because I am using mobilinc? ie, can i use some of the other portals and polyglot (not that I know how to use them, just want to know if I can). 2) Is there anything else I should be aware of using this configuration? Thanks again.

I am trying to follow these instructions. Login to https://my.isy.io , click on My Profile (top right) and make sure My Preferred ISY points to your ISY I have 2 ISYs listed but only 1 is plugged in and working, and this one has a green dot next to it. I also have the 30 day trial period in place. Open MobiLinc and go to My Settings->Lighting Controller Settings Set Host Type to ISY it is Set Username and Password to the email address and password with which you are registered in ISY Portal I did a copy/paste from my log in to the portal Set Local - http:// to blank it is Set Local port Leave as is it is Set Secure - https:// my.isy.io it is Set Secure Port to 443 it is Tap sync with ISY in the controller page I get a network error "There was a problem sending the request. Please verify the connection settings in my settings and try again. Error code:401. Error Message: Authentication needed. Note that I saw somewhere that I need to "deactivate Mobilinc portal" and do that via the manage modules option in Admin console. But when I select manage modules, it only comes back with a statement that all my modules are up to date - there is no identification of what modules I have nor a way to enable or disable any modules. So I am at a loss for how to proceed.

“Now, if you had UD Portal setup and were just running Mobilinc (the app) and connecting via UD Portal you've got options (perhaps). But I don't think this is how you had it setup. I don't know how Mobilinc's portal worked, but I've always used Mobilinc (Pro) with UD Portal and it still works with eisy as it always did with my ISY994. You might be able to still use the Mobilinc app (perhaps...I'm not sure if their MoblincX app works as I was happy with the Pro).” I was using Orchestrated Mobilinc. And I would like to continue to use it. I am having trouble setting up the configuration page to get it to work. I’ve emailed Wes at Mobilinc but he hasn’t given me easily understood directions. Can you help?

I am on 5.6.4 ( I misremembered). I was using mobilinc connect not UD portal. Thanks for your answer.