Hi All, (JacktheRipper)

I have finally upgraded to 5.0.16, all seems fine, except my Motion Sensor II.

1. I have configured the options to JacktheRipper's settings above after deleting the MS II from ISY and reading it.  The only thing I have not done is actually delete the program and recreate it.  In addition, in the status screen of the 4A.78.D4.1 Motion I don't get a "status".  I assume that this is just a ISY / MS II issue / bug.

2. I have a simple program to begin with that simply checks the "4A.78.D4.1 Motion is switched On" and I turn on a Insteon Bulb On.  This worked before the upgrade.

3. The above doesn't work now.

4. Any suggestions?

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UPDATED - 

I'll keep this entry, plus this update.

5. I pushed the "Motion" button on the MS II and bingo, all started working.  I assumed that setting the 4A.78.D4.13 Motion Enabled to 100% set the motion detection on, but I guess not.

 

 

Thanks

34 minutes ago, larryllix said:

I was about to buy a third MiLight hub when I decided other bulbs were cheaper than a new hub. When I bought my MiLight bulbs they ran about $10 each. That is changing! The MiLight bulbs have better brightness and colour than the Hue bulbs, even the newer ones.

Trying not to be too thick and confused and I appreciate the feedback.  Can you clarify a couple things:

1. The MiLights and hubs, you said "I was about to buy a third MiLight hub when I decided other bulbs were cheaper than a new hub.".  What other bulbs did you go with?

2. Your experience with MiLights, the brightness and color is great to hear.  

3. I find that I use Alexa in combination with the ISY so that flexibility is a plus.  My question is your experience with ISY / Polyglot and the MiLights.  Good enough support, stability and enhancements to satisfy you?

4. I really like the idea of WiFi control along with ISY and Alexa, plus the brightness and color and cost directs me to the MiLights, but the four addresses per hub (this DOESN'T equal 4 bulbs per hub) BUT what are its limitations?  If I'm just looking to control say 2-3 lights in 2-3 separate rooms, I only need one hub or?

Again, thanks for taking time to support me and hopefully this thread will assist others in the future.

12 minutes ago, lilyoyo1 said:

I personally don't use "smart" bulbs for main lighting. Hue bulbs are about 800 lumens which is more than sufficient for me. If you're looking for blinding light then it probably wouldn't be suitable.

I reserve smart bulbs/strips for lamps and accent lights. For 1, it's cheaper to use a switch with regular bulbs and 2, I want to avoid anything that needs to go through something to work. If my hub or isy fails, my lights will still work. If my hue hub fails or router goes out, I'm left in the dark. When it does happen, we all know it'll be 10 at night when I need it working the most. 

If lamps or accent lights fail to operate, I won't lose any sleep. I can get to it when I get to it. But if my regular lights go out, I have to drop everything and do it then

I hear you and that is a concern of mine also, but I have overhead lights that can be manually controlled and Insteon controlled for main lighting.  So just like you, accent lighting for smart bulbs in the form of table lamps only.

1. I'm liking the Lifx over Hue due to 650, 800, and 1100 lumen capability.

2. It appears ISY Polyglot supports ramp up capability too?

14 minutes ago, simplextech said:

In general I dislike Wifi bulbs because of the delay from going out to the cloud and back to turn on a light.  This is just stupid.  LIFX has a local API which avoids this so I like LIFX.  Otherwise Zigbee specifically ZLL is the "king" of smart bulbs.  

Bottom line go with Hue or LiFX they are both great bulbs/ecosystems.

I didn't know / realize that WiFi based LED bulbs have to go out the cloud, holy crap, that's ridiculous, but I guess everyone these days wants to lock you into their cloud.  That's why I want to lean toward ISY centric with no cloud other than ISY cloud.

Appreciate the education.

1. Concerning the brightness, would I be able to tell the difference in brightness or would it be so minimal that my concern for brightness is actually not an issue to be concerned about.  I have a Yeelight RGB in my office and it just seems a bit on the low side on brightness.

2. Hue lights are 800 lumens, Yee lights are 600, Mi Lights are 1100.  I see the point of Hue capability overriding the lumens.

3. Hue lights definitely have more bulb variations, ect.  Will be important as my LED light ecosystem grows.

I know I could count on y'all for some advice, thanks!

So, with anything else, looks like the following and some questions.

1. Hue, more expensive, hub based, much better ecosystem, lower wattage bulbs, Ok. color.
2. MiLights, as expensive as Hue, hub based, limited ecosystem, higher wattage bulbs, great color 
3. MagicHome, much less expensive, hub based, growing ecosystem but limited ISY capability at the moment, lower wattage bulbs, Ok. color capability.

Comments on:

1. Leaning toward MiLights because; cheaper, higher wattage, looks like a hub will be required for better control, higher wattage bulb availability, great color
2. ISY control is available via Polyglot and capability increasing.
3. Notice my requirement for higher wattage.  With no experience, I assume higher wattage will provide brighter light and possibly better color, just thinking that higher wattage will flood larger room better with light.
4. It appears that the Hue has the most ISY control available, smooth ramp up is a general requirement for me, and the other bulbs don't appear to have that available via ISY / Polyglot yet?

Hi All,

I'm about ready to upgrade my ISY configuration that has been rock solid for some 6 years.  Will finally upgrade to the 5.x release and implement the Polyglot server.  I have also preordered the Polisy.  I only mention this to give some context that I'm a ISY centric user with the desire to become even more ISY centric with the v 5.x release for the devices and controls described below.

1. My main question is a request for advice on LED lights.  I want to purchase some color LEDs that will be compatible with the ISY as well as Alexa.  Of course I know about the Phillips Hue, but I see that I can go a lot less expensive with Mi Lights, or Lifx (about the same price as the Hue), any others that are less expensive and ISY compatible such as the Berennis Smart Light Bulb?

2. So, what is the forum's recommendation for LED Color bulbs that are ISY compatible, don't require a hub (looking to keep things simple and ISY centric).

3. The Mi Light 12w interests me because of 12w, which would be much brighter than the hue, 100w vs 60w bulb equivalent?

 

Devices

1. Insteon Lights via ISY / Alexa (19)
2. Honeywell Alarm via Total Connect / Alexa
3. Honeywell Temperature XL950 via Nexia / Alexa - (6 zones)
4. Insteon Motion Detection via ISY (4)
5. AeroGarden via Alexa
6. Sonos via Alexa - PlayOne (2), Play 5, Play 1 (5), PlayBar
7. TV / Logitech Harmony via Alexa (2)
8. Yeelight Desklamp via Alexa
9. Yeelight Color LED bulb via Alexa

Controls

1.  Universal Devices ISY
2.  Mobilinc HD - (iPhone (2), iPad (3), Apple Watch (2))
3.  Amazon Alexa - (Echo Dot (3), Echo Show 5 (4))
4.  Sonos - PlayOne (2)
5.  IFTTT
    

WebCams

1. 1. Foscam (5)

Interesting, I just had a hiccup, but now k.


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Over the past few months I’ve had maybe one or two incidents like that. They both worked themselves out so I’m thinking it was Amazon because my internet connection was solid, or bugs. One thought is to reboot internet modem and router, and wireless to see if that helps in the future.


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Home Automation Inventory

Echo Devices
Amazon Echo Dot (3)
Sonos Play One (3)

Echo Controlled
Universal Devices Home Automation Controller Smart Hub ISY994i
Sonos (9)
Logitech Harmony
Dish Hopper 3
Alarm System
Thermostat - Honeywell XL950 (2)
Irrigation system

Services
MobiLinc Portal for ISY
MobiLinc HD for iPad and iPhone
ISY devices, scenes, and network resources
Nexia for thermostats
IFTTT for other trigger services

Uses
Control and monitoring of Insteon devices
Light switches (15)
Light bulbs (2)
Motion detection (2)
Control of entertainment center
Control of Sonos
Control of alarm
Control of thermostats
Control of IFTTT applets
Flash light when new Twitter follower
Geo based Logitech Harmony scenes
Geo based Nexia






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So, discovered the issue.  Sometimes I have to RTFM a couple times.  I missed the step to go to the Programs Tab and hit the Save Changes button.

 

I'm in the process of converting from ISY Portal to Mobilinc Connect.  

Previously in the ISY Portal I could see my devices and scenes because through the ISY Portal I added the devices to the portal. 

After I switched to Mobilinc Connect, I saw some devices but not all.

So, I checked and in the Notes section of each device and scene I made sure I had a spoken word, but there are still some that are not appearing in Alexa after I perform a discovery.

I have come across instructions for the ISY Portal and Alexa and I came across the Mobilinc instructions for Alexa, but I'm still having issues.

Any ideas or can someone point me to a similar message / instructions?

 

Thanks for the support.

Hi Everyone,

Just want to confirm something.

1. I just converted from ISY Portal to Mobilinc Connect.

2. My Network Module that was included in the ISY Portal is gone.  

3. I will need to purchase the Network Module for Mobilinc, correct?

Still offline here, will give it some more time. Rebooted ISY, still no connectivity.

and ..... we’re back. Thanks to the support team!

Thanks again, UDI, for your speedy response. All is well

Still offline here, will give it some more time. Rebooted ISY, still no connectivity.

Heard back from UDI support that one of their servers is down. 

 

in the my Java app, under Configuration / Portals tab, "Portal Integration - UDI" shows Offline. 

 

Support suggested rebooting the ISY controller, but this doesn't seem to have helped.

I’ve rebooted twice, no luck. Will wait for further update.

I made no changes whatsoever. Keypads and switches working fine. Given the message I received when I attempted to login to the portal (ISY not online) sounds like a problem with the portal. Yoohoo, Benoit!

Same here, with the exception of the OSX upgrade. So, if others haven’t upgraded, which it appears so, it’s a portal issue and hopefully we will get a response to this thread and status.

Alexa stopped executing any commands. A check of the portal says my ISY is not online.

 

Same issue here.  Just started happening after a OSX update to version 10.3.4

You need to write the body of the email in HTML. An for monitoring bathroom humidity post-shower example follows:

 

<html>

<body>

<font face="arial">

  <style>

    body {

      font-family: sans-serif;

    }

  </style>

<table width=442 bgcolor=D8D8D8 border=0>

<tr><td align=center>

<h3>Bathroom Monitor Report</h3>

<table width=440 Border=1 bgcolor=01DFD7>

<tr align=center><td><b>Details</b></td></tr>

<tr><td><table width=440 border="1" bgcolor=AAAAAF>

<tr align=left><td><b>Condition</b></td><td align=right><b>Value</b></td></tr>

<tr><td>Time</td><td align=right>${sys.time12}</td></tr>

<tr><td>Duration</td><td align=right>${var.2.46} minutes</td></tr>

<tr><td>Temperature</td><td align=right>${sys.node.ZW003_1.CLITEMP.RAW}º F</td></tr>

<tr><td>Humidity</td><td align=right>${sys.node.ZW003_1.CLIHUM.RAW}%</td></tr>

<tr><td>Humidity-Pause</td><td align=right>${var.1.25}%</td></tr>

<tr><td>Humidity-Start</td><td align=right>${var.1.22}%</td></tr>

<tr><td></td><td align=right></td></tr>

<tr><td>Program</td><td align=right>${sys.program.#.name}</td></tr>

</table></tr></table>

<tr><td><hr width=440 align=left></td></tr>

<tr><td>

<table width=400 border=0><tr><td align=center>~ ~ ~ END OF REPORT ~ ~ ~</td></tr>

<tr align=center><td><font color="red">Report Generated: ${sys.time12} ${sys.date}</font></td></tr>

</table>

</align>

</td></tr></table>

</font></body></html>

Hi GlowingHair,

 

Very much appreciated!  Very much!

It's easy.  Here's a sample of the body of an email with an embedded variable:

The ISY was up ${var.1.4} hours between reboots.

INTEGER variables are indicated by: ${var.1.x}.  STATE variables are indicated by: ${var.2.x}  In this example above, ${var.1.4} indicates an INTEGER variable with an ID of 4.  You get the ID of the variable from the leftmost column of your variable list.

Hi Bumbershoot,

 

Thanks for the reply.  What I'm actually looking for is the directions for creating the HTML page to send as a HTML eMail Notification with variables embedded.  Just want to send a nice looking email rather than a plain ole text based one.

Hi everyone,

 

I've searched but cannot find anything on how to create a HTML eMail Notification that has ISY variables embedded into it.

 

Can someone point me to an example / tutorial on how to accomplish this?