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Voice control is like power windows in your car. You will never go back. I am with lilyoyo1. I believe in total automation but I am not there yet and will likely never be. Voice control allows so many more controls without dozens and dozens of pushbutton, every where in the house. Coloured lighting schemes would be next to impossible. Imagine the home wiring required to be able to turn on porch/deck lights outside from any room in the house? Lazy? You bet! Imagine doing this one manually! Alexa! Turn on security lights! Turns every light outside on and under porch and decks, around the house and turns ever light inside the house off, Straw Dogs style, (Dustin Hoffman movie) Alexa! Turn off security lights. Reverses it back to previous lighting setups.

This is an Insteon protocol phenomenon and not to be thought related to your PLM/ISY. It is believed to be a signal clash that may be repeated and cleaned up by Insteon units into a Scene On signal.. Since AC powered Insteon devices are supposed to play nicely in the protocol by watching for signal clash probabilities and avoiding them, it is believed to be from battery operated devices, that repeat their signal several times blindly. Examine your program looking for a battery operated device (typically MSes) that triggers a program and your program immediately puts out an Insteon response to activate a device and insert a Wait2-3 seconds as the first line before the Insteon device control. KPLs are bad for this as people like to get those LEDs to repond immediately and KPLs contain multiple devices that are all in the same device, protocol wise. For high speed operations from a MS to a lamp use a scene where ISY doesn't have to spit out a Lamp On right away. It is faster and ISY can just turn it off on it's own logic. Most of this is addressed in the UDI wiki website, with how to's to help you.

In the new PolISY I don't think there will be any SD card connections with it's built in SDD. Hopefully there will be no Molex pin connectors either. Mind you, the connector plating technology seems to have come a long way since the old 1 MHz CPU days when wiping and cleaning connectors was a weekly event.

Try one these I found for that expression. Maybe Google has taken java off it's "allowance" list https://www.bing.com/search?q=java+firewall+allowance&form=EDGNB3&mkt=en-ca&httpsmsn=1&plvar=0&refig=3dfbbf8dd65d407bf6ae7e1ea788a139&sp=-1&ghc=1&pq=java+firewall+a&sc=0-15&qs=n&sk=&cvid=3dfbbf8dd65d407bf6ae7e1ea788a139 Look into your java admin/control console, to find the firewall settings. It may require your ISY IP address added to the permissions list, it it will block requests coming from that IP address. I am not sure how iOS things look (and don't really want to) but surely Apple will let you make a setting inside your java firewall without their approval first.

The vocal device apps only link with your ISY Portal account, not your ISY, and are not related to the UI used in your ISY admin console. Perhaps you are referring to the GH UI?

Have you entered ISY IP address into the java firewall allowances?

We always had to spend 10's of thousands of dollars on special transformers to isolate our electrical grid station equipment from telco (Bell) stations. Bell would sent high voltages, right from their great grounding system, into our equipment every time we had a high current fault, and burn out our sensitive relays and electronics. Eventually things went away from DC signals and went to tone systems that could be insulated,and it eliminated some of the telco lineman idiots from disconnecting or reversing polarities on critical trip lines.

Make sure your ISY IP address is installed in your java firewall to let it passed it's filters. Same for Windows firewall tables.

When your programs were MIA did you ever click save? If so they may be gone from the ISY.

You will require java. ISY admin console doesn't use a browser once acquired. Java will not run under most browsers now, and only exists as a separate package.

Careful with the KPL toggle mode. I can't remember exactly the what or why, but if you check your ISY log file you will find Insteon KPLs do not send the correct status from the buttons. IIRC they send On and Off toggling regardless of setting???? After having a long interaction with @Michel Kohanim I discovered what he was trying to tell me about KPLs statuses. (statii? )

I think you guys are just trying to make a scene here, and that isn't on the OP's program. Sent using Tapatalk

Clarity to understand what you are doing a few years later has to weigh heavily for me. This is one of the main reasons I try to avoid scenes in my system. I use scenes where I need massive quantities of Insteon devices to activate simultaneously, (eg. intrusion annoyance), where I need the speed (eg. MS to lamp) and where I want several different lighting level balances in my Gathering room, combined with many WiFi bulbs, to get away from so much popcorn bulb lighting effect. Programs are easier to understand, and find when needed for troubleshooting. You can't inject a condition into a scene or record specific items about it easily. @David_31262 with KPLs, be careful not to receive a signal and fire a signal right back at the LED, especially in conjunction with an MS or other battery Insteon device. Always leave a few second Wait in between. You can cause RF clashes that can cause you random scene activations, most know as the "ALL ON" phenomenon.

When you use the plural "blinds" google thinks they are smarter than you, and will attempt to set everything with a similar definition to 20%. I don't use my GH devices for HA anymore. GH suck making guesses for everything and are hard to deal with. I got tired of having outdoor and all other lights turned on from other vocal commands. Alexa understands devices with more than one word. For GH "turn on red bedroom lights" means every device in the house that has Red in the name. I have many, even 13 outside bulbs. Try "set the blind to 20%" I hope you only have one.

I had hard to find problems with this in my previous home. It was the GFCI breaker. The neutral wires arc to the ground wire and they always show a short circuit anyway so it cannot be found with a meter. When a bathroom fan is switched off the high voltage spike finds the pinhole or crack in the wiring. Hard to find other than to move suspected wiring around and see if it stops. Look for wiring bent sharply right at the box clamp, and pinched wring behind large switchbox items like dimmers, inside switch boxes.

You may need to use an insulation testers. Pin holes in insulation will not show up on a 3 volt ohmmeter, but at a few hundred volts will arc through to something else.When you shut off an inductive load it can produce spikes of thousands of volts. Sent using Tapatalk

For me, the ISY Portal is really needed for Alexa and/or Google Home voice control. Without it I would be using manual switches and not have easy access to colour lighting schemes etc. Fancies like, turn on the TV, Turn on radioStationXXXX, etc... would take manual operation. Most times the switch is entering/leaving the room but all the Gathering Room scenes, like Reading Lights, TV lights, perimeter lights, Christmas Lights, etc... etc. are much easier with vocal control. That takes the ISY Portal. There re ways around it but it really smooths it out and makes it much easier. It also gives me remote access without punching holes in my router firewall and allows me to trigger voice snippet announcements out of Alexa boxes, from my ISY.

The Network Resource module is already resident inside your ISY and only takes a key pushed down from UDI.. This usually happens within hours after payment and is arranged from inside the admin console. This will allow you to send Ethernet packets in almost any protocol to any Ethernet device. It also provides an extension to the email notifications that can provide basic database writes to memory inside ISY. Mwareman wrote some script that will run on another computer to scrape these files and display them in graphical form. I did some work on this also, breaking files down into this week, last week, week before files, to analyse event on my HVAC system. This helped me a lot to see where things went wrong with co-ordinated thermostats. I can't remember the file protocol but IIRC it was .CSV. The beauty of that system is that it is all existent inside your ISY and only required an external computer to see the finished data. That was a giant milestone in independence for us ISY freaks, anyway. I couldn't live without ISY NRs anymore. I use them to control software in my RPi that runs 25 lightbulbs, it ran my Hue bridge, as well as MILight, and MagicHome RGBWW strip controllers. Now it also runs my Onkyo A/V receiver, selecting radio stations and switching to Netflix, Sat dish, BlueRay player etc..

According to the info link @palayman posted above, the Leviton unit has no protection from neutral to ground. If installed right at the main panel, the ground and system neutral are connected together within inches of the spike suppressor and become redundant. However, if the Leviton spike suppressor (no units can suppress surges) is connected away from the main panel, it may not be a good application. Spike suppressors may actually increase the risk of damage depending on how things are grounded and where the lightning or other noise gets into you system. If a voltage spike comes into your video receiver antenna coax, a spike suppressor could provide a better path to ground through the receiver. Of course that may prevent further damage to other equipment. It's definitely an artform. These units are beneficial in probably 99% of the cases though.

Lead length is important for good spike absorption. Did you wire this into a breaker or directly to the bus?

That was my point. I only need string substitution from variables on outputs now. I don't ever expect ISY to do string processing in programs.

Implementing variable to string array would work for me, being the complement of the other half. I already use string names for many ISY things.

Just do it!

YEAH STRINGS! I think they would mostly be useful on I/O. I don't see them that useful in programming...yet? A simple method would be to just implement a string substitution on outputs, like email, and NS. eg. I would like to order some stringSub( ${var.2.78}, 'apples', 'pears', tomatoes', peaches' ) Inputting strings would be a whole 'nuther big deal trying to work out string input and converting to a numeric value. Implementing constant variables could help this.

I m excited to see "v6.0.1 beta" mounted on it and the big switch on the front.....Disable Zwave Snooping!