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I have one LD under my dishwasher and the heartbeat misses about once per year, despite the five year old unit working just fine for years after. I decided to create a monitoring program that resets itself and continues to check the heartbeat and report it in another/every 48 hours. If I was away on a month long vacation I don't want notifications more frequently but I need a reminder for when I get back. Notifications that get sent once tend to be forgotten when I get back. Note: I write all my device monitoring in the positive context so if they show green (running Then) everything is fine. They also get labelled "XXX Ok". Also note the usage of constants so I don't have to guess what the codes are two years from now. A common program monitors the state variables and does the common things using ISY's event based logic engine design. Leak.Kitchen.OK - [ID 0164][Parent 00CD] If 'Kitchen / Kitchen Leak.dry / Kitchen Leak.heartbeat' is switched On Or 'Kitchen / Kitchen Leak.dry / Kitchen Leak.heartbeat' is switched Off <------some units do not use this Then $sLeak.Kitchen Init To $cLEAK.DRY $sLeak.Kitchen = $cLEAK.DRY Wait 25 hours Run Program 'Leak.Kitchen.OK' (Else Path) <-------- display a red icon Else $sLeak.LowBatt.room Init To $cROOM.KITCHEN <------where to look for lowBatt, log in ISY, power blink survivable $sLeak.LowBatt.room = $cROOM.KITCHEN $sLeak.Kitchen Init To $cLEAK.LOWBATT <------- trigger common alarm programs, power blink survivable $sLeak.Kitchen = $cLEAK.LOWBATT $sAlarm.level = 2 <------- ring some local beeper alarms Send Notification to 'Text Larry' content 'Leak Detector Heartbeat Missed' Send Notification to 'eMail Larry' content 'Leak Detector Heartbeat Missed' Wait 23 hours Run Program 'Leak.Kitchen.OK' (Then Path) <------- start over and retest

IMHO: "beta" and "alpha" are very bad labels UDI has assigned every version of v5 so far. It's a non-committal cop out for releases and causing UDI a very bad market reputation, hurting their sales.

Not that I know of. I wrote my own but basically I would copy the Belias programs verbatim and then use the mass change features in Admin Console to swap in sane name for variables, and programs, that mean something to a reader. Then I would create some Integer variable constants to identify codes with sane names. eg: set $sLD.dishwasher = $cLEAK.DRY

Time to bite the bullet and upgrade to the real ISY! This a basic setting that I think was included in v4 but then I haven't used v4 for about 5 years now. I don't use scenes unless I have to.

When you operate a device locally there is no scene involved. It is all internal between the switch contacts and the dimmer electronics. If it is a SwitcLinc then set the switchlinc On level, not an unrelated scene. Ensuite Lights Level.adjust Copy - [ID 001A][Parent 00FA] If From 8:00:05AM To 11:00:00PM (same day) Then Set 'Master Bedroom / Ensuite Lights' On Level 100% Set 'Master Bedroom / Ensuite Lights' Ramp Rate 0.5 seconds Else Set 'Master Bedroom / Ensuite Lights' On Level 20% Set 'Master Bedroom / Ensuite Lights' Ramp Rate 2.0 seconds

With google, they will never let any information go. It might be worth a few bucks someday. You can only unlink your hub account.

Yes. Vocal control is like having a keypad in every room with an infinite number of buttons. Although against my basic principles, I would have a hard time living without it now. The second largest usage for us, with vocal is asking how old some actor is, or what the name of the actor is, while watching movies. Third, is asking outside temperatures and weather. BTW: Alexa now has a skill that supports the CAO Tags now and will report temperatures for my 7 Tags. Recommended!

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..