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I added a request for this on the SH forum. Thanks for pointing that out Teken. *Maybe this has been resolved already? My Smoke Bridge shows a "Malfunction" line. Not sure if that actually reads the "hearbeat" or what not of the detectors though.

Thanks folks. I've got several SwitchLinc's installed, but none on a 4-way. I'm ok with the electrical, once I know where everything should go...but might need to get an electrician buddy of mine in here for the 4 way. He talked me through a 3 way setup of the SwitchLinc's over the phone, but I'm thinking the 4 way is going to be just a bit trickier.

Thanks for the replies folks. I'm going to have to do some digging/reading about everything ya'll just posted. I'm not a techy by trade, so I learn as I go. Over the past week, I've had the notifications working without issue. But will still look into the tips posted here to work on getting to the bottom of this.

I've got a set of 3 track lights in my home in an open area. All three turn on/off together. There are 3 toggle switches throughout the open area to control these lights. When I turn one toggle on, all 3 track lights turn on. Obviously I can turn on/off the track lights from any of the 3 toggles. So, looks like I've got a 4-way setup. How would I accurately wire these with the Switchlinc #2477S? (moving my home to Decora vs. toggles). Any help is much appreciated!

We have Comcast here. Anything I can check/change in settings (router or ISY) to get to the bottom of the DNS issues? Thanks again. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Sorry about the late reply. I've been extremely busy and unable to give this the attention it needs. However, a missed notification today reminded me to update here. My error log goes back to 12/27/2013, and I have one (-11), two (-5), and one (-6) errors showing. When the weather gets really cold/hot, our garage doors tend to be a little finicky (as they are wood and expand/contract). Very cold today. I got home at 6:07 pm or so, closed the garage, but it hit the bottom and bumped up a little, settling 1/4 of the way open. A problem we have every once in a while due to them being wood doors. I received no notification that it was open. Just now, at 9:41 I noticed the garage door open, closed it, and immediately got a notification that it was closed (text + email). So the "system" knew the door was open for more than 30 minutes, but again I got no notification. Mind you, the last few days while shoveling I have gotten the notification as I left the door open while shoveling, so I know it does work...sometimes. Fri 2014/02/07 05:11:06 PM System -50010 mail.universal-devices.com Fri 2014/02/07 05:11:11 PM System -50010 mail.universal-devices.com Fri 2014/02/07 06:37:18 PM System -50010 mail.universal-devices.com What are these errors at 5:11? I came home right about 6:07 (I know this for sure as I made a phone call soon after I entered my home so have a record of the time). So it looks like it tried to send me a message at 6:37, which would make sense. Anything else I can specifically look at now to see why the I didn't get the alert as I now know the exact time I should have gotten one and that it didn't happen? Thanks again for any help.

I believe this is what I was looking for in the error log?... Tue 2014/01/07 System -50001 -11 and -11 = SMTP_TO_TIMEOUT Unfortunately I cannot say for certain this was the day that it last happened, but the time of day seems to indicate it is. I also have -5 and -6 popping up in the error log.

Anybody else having this issue, or know of any work-arounds? I receive email/text notifications for 3 things. Water sensor, lights turning on a sunset, and if the garage is left open. Each day I receive a text/email that my lights turned on at sunset. Great. Recently just switched this to text only, and works fine. I had noticed hit or miss notifications with my water sensor while testing it, which is definitely concerning, but sort of gave up on trying to figure it out (I know, bad move). Now this has happened. Twice. I have a program that emails/texts me if the garage is left open for more than 30 mintues, then emails/texts when it's closed as confirmation. Twice now, I never got the email/test that it is OPEN, only received it when it closed. One time I didn't know it was open (this is exactly what the purpose of the program is for!), my wife came home from work, closed the garage, and I got the notifications. Asked her about it when I saw the notifications, and she said yeah, you left the garage open. We don't generally leave the garage open, only if it's an accident. But while shoveling the driveway we do leave it open for more than 30 minutes, so I've been able to test these notifications quite often this year. Most of the time it works as should, but twice I never got the notification that it was left open, but did get the notification that it was closed. Thoughts or any input is much appreciated.

Thanks LeeG. First I had tried unplugging the ISY for a bit. That didn't fix the problem (I didn't expect it to as it wasn't really an ISY problem). I just did a PLM restore, and that fixed it. Thank you very much. Annoyed now more than ever with this...I don't like not understanding / the unexplained. Is there any thoughts as to why all of the sudden all of my switches/devices would break the link like that? Something I can avoid in the future? All of the sudden I don't feel like you can truly trust MobiLinc, for example, to see the status of my garage door, if the link might be broken and therefore MobiLinc would possibly be incorrect (not MobiLinc's fault, but thats where I would look for status of devices if I'm outside of the house).

More trouble in paradise... Now that the program works, and it does work well...I have another issue. When I switch a light at the source (switch the light on/off at the switch itself)...my ISY is not updating, and therefore my MobiLinc is not updating. I can control the device via ISY directly or MobiLinc, and when I do this the status in both is correct and updates correctly. But, if I walk over to the switch, and turn the light OFF, for example, it still shows ON in ISY and MobiLinc. If I query it in ISY, then it updates correctly to be OFF. Any idea why this is happening? I have 5 light switches (3 are SwitchLincs and 2 are ToggleLincs). All 5 are doing the same thing, that is, not reporting their status back to the ISY if I change the status at the switch itself. They were working/updating normally before. I tested them a million times today while working on the garage/lighting issues and so had them on/off and was aware of their state the entire time. I didn't want to start a new thread. Anyone still reading this thread have any idea what I should try to resolve this or what could be causing this? *Edit, just checked the garage door, and it does not update to ISY to show whether the sensor is OFF or ON (Open or Closed). *Edit 2, there's nothing regarding me pressing the switches in Event Viewer or the Log. I've pressed a switch, gone back and checked both, and nothing happened at that time. Tried this a few times, same result. It's as if I'm pressing the button on the switch, and it's not sending data back to ISY telling it what it just did (turned ON for example). But I do have communication, as I can still control the lights from ISY/MobiLinc and those statuses reflect fine.

From what I can tell, same thing applies to the smoke bridge and First Alert detector. I've turned off the breakers a few times to replace some switches and install others, and each time, the smoke bridge shows nothing for Smoke / CO / Clear. It does however show OFF for Low Battery, Malfunction, Test, and Unknown Message. The Smoke / CO / Clear show no status until you test the Fire Alarm or press the button on the smoke bridge. Then all is good, except Clear doesn't show anything, but I don't believe it ever does. (I could be wrong though, I'll have to keep an eye out on it).

Genius! I didn't have the lights in any other programs...but...at some point today I was playing with scenes trying to learn how all that works...and I had put the three of them (2 lights + Garage Door) into a scene. Just deleted the scene, and checked several times, and each time everything executed perfectly. Thanks!!! And no, had not linked the devices manually. Thanks everyone for the quick replies and the resolution!

Just checked both lights several times. Each time the ISY reflects the correct on/off status of each light. - There are no other programs with these lights. I just installed them yesterday, and installed the garage unit today. Haven't had a chance to add them to anything else yet. - Firmware is V.4.0.5 - UI is V.4.0.11 ***Here's something I just noticed. My wife just came home, and I was in the middle of testing. I had 1 of the lights on, and 1 of them off. When she opened the garage door. The light that was ON, flashed OFF, then they both went ON. So...I think ISY is catching that light as OFF, and that makes them both OFF, so they both go ON. That leads me to this question...with the above program...why is the light that is ON flashing OFF, then back ON again? Also, just did this...If I leave both lights ON, and open the garage, they both turn OFF. Then when I close the garage, they both flash ON briefly, and then stay OFF. Hmmm...

Thanks for the reply. I just checked the program thoroughly. I had to adjust the time of day, and the green arrow showed, I saved, and the green arrow went away. Both lights off (verified visually), both lights show off in ISY. Opened garage via MobiLinc. Both lights came on. Good. Next I tried... 1 of the lights on (verified visually), verified via ISY, 1 light on, 1 light off. Opened the garage via MobiLinc. The other light came on. This is driving me nuts. Not only that, it's driving the dogs nuts. Every time they hear the garage door opening, they bolt for the door. Also just tried the same 2 tests, but operating the garage door via ISY, instead of MobiLinc. Same results.

I've read every thread I can find with the word garage and lights in it, but can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I've tried every combination of moving the ( ) around, moving the order of things in "Then", and whatever else I could have thought of. Basically, if I come home after sunset, but before sunrise, and 2 lights are OFF (bar lights / kitchen counter lights), I would like to turn them both ON. If at least one of those lights is ON, then I do not want anything to happen (meaning don't turn the other one on). *In this example I'm using a set time of day, not sunset/sunrise so that I can be testing the program. My results: If I have both lights off, and the garage opens, then both of them turn on. Ok, good. BUT, if I have 1 of the lights on, and the garage opens, then it turns the other light on...but that's not want I want. I'd like the other one to stay off. All 3 of the IF functions need to be true for the THEN statement to operate. I even tried putting the ( ) around all of the IF, and that didn't work either. What am I doing wrong? (Sorry about all the basic questions here. Completely new to all of this, and so far most of the items I can figure out or find answers to, but once I cannot figure it out I turn to ya'll. Plus, hopefully this helps anyone searching for answers in the future.) If From 2:00:00PM To 3:00:00PM (same day) And Status 'Garage Door - Right-Sensor' is Off And ( Status 'Bar Lights' is Off And Status 'Kitchen Counter Lights' is Off ) Then Set 'Bar Lights' On Set 'Kitchen Counter Lights' On Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')

Ok, I've just changed that. What exactly do these parameters (parenthesis) do that the program wasn't (or was for that matter) doing without them? *Edit: Nevermind, I see the answer was at the top of the page...I just didn't read it before. My fault. Thanks for the help! Guess we'll see if this was my issue at 9am tomorrow morning. I'll be sure to report back for anyone having a similar issue in the future. If ( Time is 9:00:00AM Or Time is 6:00:00PM ) And $sLeakWaterLeakSensor1 is not 1 Then Send Notification to 'Peter Cell' content 'Leak Sensor Problem' Send Notification to 'Peter Email' content 'Leak Sensor Problem' Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')

Thanks Kman. My garage sensor arrived today actually, so this thread is perfect timing. I'll try to get everything setup tonight...and report back. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Take it one step further: If you were sent the "Door is Up" alert email that the door has been open for 30 minutes, then have another program send you the "Door is Down alert when the door is closed. You ONLY want to get the down alert if the door was open for more than the interval, i.e. if you get the up email, you want to get the down email. The trick is to set an integer (not state) variable and set it to 0 (false) when the door goes up then to 1 (true) when the up email is sent. Create another program that reacts when the door goes down AND the variable is 1 (true) to send another email alert that the door is down. And useful feature of ISY programming: programs can be set to "disabled" to control when they run. Programs can execute disabled programs but conditions or status changes cannot. I hate to ask, but being totally new to ISY and having only had a very basic programming class in highschool...I can't figure out what this program should look like. Would you mind sharing? This is a great idea to get the notification once it's down after that 30 min window that it was up.

I get the same thing as Teken. Every morning at 9:00am I get a text and email that says: Water Leak Sensor Problem. And the status is:1. Status 1 is Hearbeat OK. I do not get notifications at 6:00 pm. Here is my Leak Sensor Problem Program (according to this, it should only email me if the variable is not 1, but I get the notification which states the variable IS 1): If Time is 9:00:00AM Or Time is 6:00:00PM And $sLeakWaterLeakSensor1 is not 1 Then Send Notification to 'Peter Cell' content 'Leak Sensor Problem' Send Notification to 'Peter Email' content 'Leak Sensor Problem' Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') I assume it's got something to do with my Variable 2 program? It's constantly "running then" on the summary page under activity. If Control 'Water Leak Sensor 1-Dry / Water Leak Sensor 1-Heartbeat' is switched On Or Control 'Water Leak Sensor 1-Dry / Water Leak Sensor 1-Heartbeat' is switched Off Then $sLeakWaterLeakSensor1 = 1 Wait 25 hours $sLeakWaterLeakSensor1 = 2 Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')

To update: I "borrowed" that water leak sensor program that is very popular. I ran some tests on it, after that, for some reason, control variable 2 keeps running, and last few days I've gotten a notice at 9am of Problem With Leak Sensor, status 1 (which is Heartbeat OK). Other than I can't figure out why the it keeps running and emailing me this everyday....the important part now is that I got an email and text alert about that at 9am this morning. So I just logged on and ran a TEST email from the configurations tab, and it went through no problem. So...sometimes my email/text alerts work, and sometimes they do not....any ideas why that would be?

Michel, I am not running a static IP. Any idea what else I could try? Again, the notifications worked, and now do not. Thanks for your help here and throughout the board btw! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

What happens if the mail daemon reports back an email failure / undeliverable notice? I don't think it's undeliverable because I've gotten the emails/texts before. Also, it's not sending both emails or texts. The pop-up error I get is: No Network Connection DHCP State=RENEW Mail Server DNS SMTP_ERRORS-mail.universal-devices.com Just to try something, I unplugged my router, waited a bit, and plugged it back in. I get the same error.

Hit TEST on the notifications tab, and received a DNS error. Earlier today I didn't get a notification, ran the test, got a DNS. Closed and restarted the ISY page. Ran a test program, got notifications, all good again this morning. Now after running the test program above, I didn't get the notificaitons as stated. So I tested again from the notifications tab, and get the box pop up again that says DNS error. I am NOT running a static IP. (I saw in another thread while reading on the DNS that that could be an issue). Any ideas why randomly it's throwing the DNS? Quick update: To make matters easier to understand...closed down ISY page and restarted, logged in, everything looks good. Ran the same program above (changed the times), and I received 1 email that Fire Alarm is ON, and not the email about the Lights being on, nor texts for either. Super annoyed at this point. Should be straight forward.

Ok, so the FROM is controlled by the THEN, and the TO is controlled by the ELSE. Got it. To confirm my understanding, I ran a test program (below), by having 2 lights come on at 1:37 and having only 1 of them in the ELSE statement to turn off at 1:39. As stated, the 1 light in the ELSE statement turned off, and the other light that wasn't in the ELSE statement stayed on. Great. Except...I received no notifications. I ran this exact same program earlier today, except I changed the time, and removed 1 light from the ELSE. Changed nothing else, and this time I get not notifications (while before I received all 4 of the notifications. *Note: The fire alarm notifications aren't related to the lights, they're just in there to test the notifications). Any ideas? Thanks for the help btw! If From 1:37:00PM To 1:39:00PM (same day) Then Set 'Foyer Hall' On Set 'Porch Lights' On Send Notification to 'Peter Cell' content 'Lights Came On' Send Notification to 'Peter Email' content 'Lights Came On' Send Notification to 'Peter Cell' content 'Fire Alarm - ON' Send Notification to 'Peter Email' content 'Fire Alarm - ON' Else Set 'Foyer Hall' Off

In the program below, I have 2 sets of lights turn on at sunset and off and sunrise. Program works fine. However, do I need the else statement as below, or do I leave it blank? What is the else statement for? How does it run in this situation/program, and what would be a good example of having "else" actually do something? Trying to get a deeper understanding of "how" the programming "thinks". If From Sunset To Sunrise (next day) Then Set 'Porch Lights' On Set 'Foyer Hall' On Send Notification to 'Peter Cell' content 'Lights Came On' Send Notification to 'Peter Email' content 'Lights Came On' Else Set 'Porch Lights' Off Set 'Foyer Hall' Off