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Anyone know of a good digital pressure sensor that will integrate into EISY for my water system? Ideally, it would be something that monitors pressure in some app or fashion over time (cloud is fine with me). What I want to do is monitor water pressure fairly accurately and be able to look at it overtime...but also integrate with EISY so I can do something with the pressure in a program for example. Thanks.

Thanks for the info...I will give it a try and see if I can get APCUPSD to work on it.

Yes, I have had a few outages since getting the EISY and it has come back up as well. I think the risk is low...but since I have it plugged into a UPS, and I already have several programs running on my various servers and RPI devices that take care of UPS control during an outage I figured I might as well add the EISY if it is possible. Thanks.

Anyone know how to get the EISY to shutdown gracefully before the UPS runs out? I am thinking that it should be possible to do with NUT or ApcUpsd like other Linux boxes? Seems like not a good idea to just cut the power to the thing...any thoughts? Thanks.

I use extension cables: The EISY sits in my server rack. The PLM is plugged in at my power panel (a separate receptacle and I have a phase bridge installed) and is connected to the EISY via a 35-foot USB 3.0 cable. The zMatter Dongle is mounted in my basement ceiling at the end of a 16-foot USB 2.0 cable. Everything works perfectly. Thanks.

Thanks very much for this....pain in the backside, but works like a champ! This proves the app still recognizes the scenes, but for some reason, they are no longer accessible from the main devices list. I hope this is not a precursor of things to come and they are removing the ability to deal with scenes. I assume someone at UDM has looked into it...whoever developed the Alexa Skill perhaps. If they are phasing out support for scenes, I assume developers would be aware of it? @Chris Jahn - Chris, any insight on this, or perhaps can you pass it along to someone who might be able to look into it to make sure it is just an APP issue and not something more? Thanks.

You got that right Larry...

To me, the Alexa App is unbelievably clunky and always has been. Amazon should be ashamed of the UI on this app. Not only that, just when you think it might be OK they constantly moving stuff around and half the stuff never shows up. Overly complicated, etc. The service, echo, skills, integration, etc. all work great... top-notch...but the app itself just plain stinks Everything in my house is working, but when I go into the app as stated above, the Scenes are no longer there. Go into Devices and about 3 of them show up when you view all devices...but yet I have 64 of them with spoken words and all work perfectly. I was trying to clean up an old scene that I deleted...that's how I found out none of them are in there. Another example, I went looking for the "Installed Skills" that I have installed for Alexa and I can not for the life of me find a list. There is an Icon for "Skills and Games" that lists them all that I can install...I can search for one and if it is installed edit it, but I can't see where they moved the "Installed Skills" menu item to. I am currently struggling with getting both my wife and I's profiles synced up to ISY. Works fine for me...but not for her all the time on certain devices. So today I figured I would relink to ISY and see if I could fix it. Did a "Discover my devices" under her account and now I get the same message as above for everything: “There are multiple devices with the name xxxxx, please give your devices unique names and start discovery again.” So nothing works on her profile now. And I can't see where to delete them from...as was said, the portal is working right...it is Alexa (and the app) that stinks. Used to be you could use the Web Page and delete things in about 1 minute there...but now they force you to the app. If I find anything out will post back here...please do the same. Thanks.

Just curious is the Z-Matter Dongle for the EISY is a USB 2 or 3 device? I am putting it on an extension cable and the one I have is USB-2. I can't image it needs anything more than that. I don't have any Z-Wave devices yet to test it, so asking here. It is white inside the port, not blue...so assume USB2 but just to be sure. Thanks.

Thanks, everyone. I appreciate the confirmation. I have it working on PG3X now. It took me a bit, as once I deleted node-link all my programs that referenced it changed to cryptic human language about what was there before! 😀 The thing about setting this stuff up years ago and it just works year after year is that my memory isn't as good as it was and I have to dig into my cranial archives to remember what I did! Appreciate the info!

I upgraded to EISY from ISY994IR and everything went fine...except my Venstar Thermostat. I tried resetting up Nodelink, but it will not connect to the ISY...it says connection refused. Double and triple checked login credentials (plus did not change them and it worked before). I am wondering now if perhaps Nodelink does not work on EISY. Can someone confirm whether it does or does not please? Thanks.

Thanks Geddy...I got it working. When I add something to the finder, I have to leave off the desc at the end, or it wont find it. Just the IP and PORT are enough. Was that way with the ISY was well.

Good advice...I got it working before seeing this. I am still not sure what the issue was...I am not a big fan of just saying it was a "glitch", I prefer to find root cause. But in this case, I may have to just call it that. Thanks.

Thanks for that detailed post! Awesome list! I got it working...by doing an uninstall again and removing all folders (as shown above) though most of them were already gone after the uninstall. Then a reboot, verify everything is gone and then reinstall JAVA and the launcher now works. I can't get the EISY to show up in the launcher...but I will figure that out, I have not had time to mess with it much yet. Got my old ISY to show up there though and it is working fine. Thanks for all the help everyone, I appreciate it.

Did that twice before...but will try again likely tomorrow. I got it working on my laptop, so I am going to backup and upgrade the firmware there while I can, and then back another backup so I can migrate over to EISY. I do see that there are two instances of the Web Launcher running on my laptop now, but none of the Web Start Launcher...so you definitely could be onto something. I will see how it goes and post back. Thanks again for the help.