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I have a very long routine that operates at random between midnight and 3 AM when I am in vacation mode. This entails lights to the appearance of getting out of bed, walking the front foyer, looking outside, travelling downstairs through the basement, peering out the basement walkout, and then reversing that stopping at each bedroom with lights on for about 3-4 seconds each. At the end all lights are turn off sequentially back to the last one being the bedroom lamp again. This comes with a warning. In my previous house, I did this appearance of checking the house with an x10 system back in the 1990s. When back from vacation a neighbour told me they had a neighbourhood gathering around my front door that ended up with police attending. Most of them knew we were always away that week each year. It was contemplated to break down our front door to inspect but the police finally told everybody to go home and they would handle it. I never heard any more about it. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

You're getting there! Nice going! Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

LOL. The more confusion you can create, the faster you can get the kids running out and away.You hear horror stories about spray painted murals and water falls down staircases. You can't stop them from getting in but you can attempt to limit the length of stay. You may want to limit your alarms to about 40 minutes before giving up for false alarms. I use 12 Insteon MSes allowing one random false every ten minutes sending a notification and a second zone triggers the works. I have had many false while away due to headlights? and dying batteries. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

I do the same for every light and my doorbell for security scare. A scene works more efficiently for this because devices don't Ack back, tying up Insteon comms as much. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

Yes exactly! Any lines in the Then after a Wait or Repeat line will not get executed. A very common gottcha' I am working from a small screen and its getting difficult keeping things organized here. Confession...I thought there was else lines in his program. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

You are going to hate this one. When your Tony Rear Door program becomes true the status condition will become false after A5 turns on. Now your If will get re-evaluated to false and Else will run. There are special two program methods of isolating devices when used in the condition of a program that controls the same device. I am on a small screen so leave it to others to follow. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

You need at least one wait between your fast on/off lines. Your pounding of the Insteon channel will tie up the comm protocol as well as make it almost impossible for your ISY to handle any other requests on the I/O channels. I doubt the v5 made this any worse. The speed of the ISY engine was improved somewhat when v5 was released. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

Just uniformity. It's another lighting setting, sometimes in a list of 15 or 20 different scenes for a particular room. With ISY Portal I wouldn't have to go looking for which scene contained the off. More modular. I don't have to worry that changing some code will affect another program using the same scene and cause me hours of sleuthing why it stopped working. I don't worry about the 1000 scene limitation. My lighting is starting to weigh more heavily into nonInsteon lighting as colour becomes cheaper than plain white and I avoid scenes unless needed for speed or Insteon data storm avoidance. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

I like to use a third scene, 'Sconces Off' but to use it you would turn it On causing all the lights to go off. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

So nothing is much different for the A /V Network Resources except you have created a special vocal library to handle the needed devices allowing us to map a/v vocals to NRs as if they were devices? Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

This compound logic will never be true as two events are never true at the same time. While ISY is processing one the other will not be being processed and false. Time is Sunset And X10 'A5/On (3)' is Received Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

Where are these network resources located? Is this a direct connection between vocals and these network resources avoiding ISY processing ? Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

So Polyglot can be either cloud or independant now. Even more options for ISY users! It never stops growing. Thanks for the correction guys! ISY forever! Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

Polyglot is not in the 'cloud'. Polyglot is a piece of software that runs on another computer, usually an RPi. Your computer and no cloud required. You are independent of other parties.It provides a base software that many code writers have created plug in software to allow your ISY to talk to Ethernet style hardware like stats, and RGB lighting. Nodelink does the same. The ISY Portal is a cloud service that you pay subscription fees for and can bridge your Alexa or google home cloud services through to your ISY and works extremely well. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

Yes. ISY does not know the language of most Ethernet devices. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

Only to run Polyglot or Nodelink, not v5.0.14. These a tools to bridge ISY to other systems like ecobee. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

Ecobee requires a third party website api bridge software running on another CPU, usually an RPi. NodeLink and Polyglot can both perform that function for you and stuff the information into your ISY like a native device, as well as control your your stats Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

Excellent. I was just going to raise that method. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

To further that you could use the same program to enable a second program for 3 seconds. The second program would be the one to change the variable.. Now you have a double tap twice interlock to set and reset your variable. This could potentially eliminate accidentally setting the variable. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

Sure. Just write a program that sets the vacation variable to TRUE/FALSE in Then/Else. Relate the program in ISY Portal to the vocal 'vacation'. Then use... Alexa. Turn on/off vacation. You may want to send yourself a notification so that later you know some automagic method turns it on or off. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

Can you use the setpoint of the stat? Less than 19c is considered vacation mode? I don't know what fields you have access to? I use a kpl for a combination code for my security system. The entries can be 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, pushbuttons long. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

The old way was usi g 12 MSes for occupancy and a further WAIT 14 hours activated the vacation flag. Another program slaved my stats to that flag and changed my stats. I didn't like the delay of response and when I frequently traveled to another city and stayed overnight we would find the stats on vacation a few hours before getting home. In the dead of winter the house can take up to a full day to warm up again. The ecobee states use vacation reservation tables that you can prebook times for on and off. I figured I may as well use it for my HA. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

After using a timer 16 hours after $sOccupied becoming false, for the last few years, I have switched over to watching my thermostat. When one of my ecobees indicates vacation the $sVacation variable gets set to $cTRUE Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

Was this kpl ever factory reset after delivery? This wreaks of needing a factory reset. All Insteon devices should be factory reset before connecting to ISY. I had a device send out opposite status codes before a factory reset. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

Interesting! I guess it could be useful as a filter in a compound logic statement or to simplify occupancy testing. Most have formerly disabled 'off' reporting to save battery power and allow ISY to do the time out logic. Thanks. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk