tlkohler

Thanks to all who replied. I've taken the best of several suggestions and combined then. My program is now working exactly as I would like with the notifications arriving as needed and (more importantly) my water heater is powering on and off and I require.

Thanks I'll give this a go and report back the findings. I very much appreciate everyone's contributions.

With a custom notification giving me the status of the device (WH Status), does the following program If -( | On Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri | Time is 4:31:00AM | Or On Sat, Sun | Time is 8:01:00AM | Or Time is 3:31:00PM | Or Time is 7:01:00PM | And Status 'WH On-Off Module' is not On -) Or-( | On Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri | Time is 6:01:00AM | Or On Sat, Sun | Time is 10:01:00AM | Or Time is 5:31:00PM | Or Time is 9:31:00PM | And Status 'WH On-Off Module' is not Off -) Then Send Notification to 'Terry All' content 'WH Status' Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') Send an email at 4:31 am during the week, 8:01 am on the weekend, 3:31 pm and 7:01 pm if the water heater is not ON - AND - send an email at 6:01 am during the week, 10:01 am on the weekend, 5:31 pm and 9:01 pm if the water heater is not OFF Thanks in advance

Just a little more clarification to the program. It could be possible that someone manually turns the water heater on outside of the "scheduled" times. I added the line to check if the heater is already on before attempting a turn on and conversely already off before I attempt to tune it off. Would you say those lines are not needed and therefore I could remove them. Instead of having one program to turn on the heater at a given time and another to turn it off at a specified time, would it make more sense to utilize jut one program for the on and off sessions?

I usually use two separate programs and rarely use Else. Only specific finite conditions will fire for Then based on your If's. The else is EVERYTHING else and you might not even be able to consider them all depending on the complexity of the If's. In this particular case, when the module is turned on the If's are evaluated again and now fires the Else. Make it two programs to turn on the module and another to monitor the status. If your network isn't reliable and it's often not getting turned on my might even add a query to run every during the appropriate time period and then fire the notification I do utilize two programs for each "timing event". One to turn the heater on and another to turn it off. That's not what your suggesting but I'm not sure how to do what you've proposed.

[quote="Xathros I'm not sure what you want to happen. The way this program is written (assuming that the notifications deliver) you will receive a notification every time the water heater turns on (not just at 3] Thanks for your quick reply. What I'd like is to get a text and email (which the custom notification is set up to do) if my water heater does not turn on and off at each of the prescribed times. It's just that I'm getting up to 8 at a time.

I'm using an Insteon [2635-222] On/Off module to power on an ELK heavy duty relay for water heater timing. I use an ISY994i/IR Pro and a PLM as the device controllers. This is one of the programs I use during the day as a water heater timer program: If Time is 3:30:00PM And Status 'WH On-Off Module' is not On Then Set 'WH On-Off Module' On Else Send Notification to 'Terry's All' content 'WH Status' Turns hot water heater on daily @ 3:30 pm The custom notification is to be sent to both my email and text if the module is not set to "ON" for some reason. Up until very recently my notifications worked fine as I had them included under the THEN statement. Once I was sure things were working with the timing programs and the heater was coming on and off as I had planned, I moved the notification line to the ELSE statement and the problems began. What is in fact happening now is I'm getting numerous emails and texts around the event timings every time even though the module has actually come on. Making things even more difficult is the fact that its not always the same amount of notifications. In all there are 8 events: an ON and an OFF set up for early morning on weekdays, an ON and an OFF for later morning on the weekend, an ON and an OFF for early afternoons and an ON and an OFF for evenings. Sometimes I will get only one or two notifications while other times I will get 8 separate emails and 8 texts indicating an event has occurred but with each of the titles of the timing event. Any help in clearing this up would be much appreciated.

Thanks for the quick reply. I should have originally noted that the ISY is working and communicating with the small number of devices I currently have. I just did not see the modem in the list of devices and though perhaps it needed to be present. I am working my way through all the documentation as we speak (post). Thanks again Terry

Ok I want to apologize right up front for this newbee question. I had made an attempt to search for the answer but have not found a similar topic. I own several Insteon devices (just starting out) and the UD ISY-994i/IR Pro. Its communicating on my network utilizing an INSTEON Dual-Band PLM serial modem (PowerLinc Modem 2413S). Do I need to add the modem as a device in the ISY's control structure? I am supplying power to the ISY independent of the PLM if that matters(?).