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Alexa announcements operate from NRs and not programs (like this one) directly. You need to set up a set of NRs, each with a text and then use them from your program.

Sorry! Skills are just for Alexa. My google Home stopped communicating with the ISY Portal for a few months and google support told me on several occasions they never heard of UDI or the ISY Portal. The ISY Portal started complaining with a similar error about 4-5 months ago and some here thought it wasn't required anymore. My GH HA started working again by itself, months later after destroying my googel account and starting over with another one, and I just gave up on it being reliable. Since I have many Amazon units here, only 3 GH minis, and Amazon trusts people to set their own parameters I have been avoiding GH for HA lately. Great games and quick wikipedia connections though.

Google Home asks you to link to your UDI account the only first time you install the skill. After that, google makes an assumption you want the same account. If it is incorrect, starting over may help, or google may never let go of that account address and you may have to contact google support to modify it. Have you built. saved, and downloaded your google home device spoken translation table in ISY Portal yet? This appears to be a good account connection but bad data table linking.

Amazon by far. I have had lots of problems with google that I didn't have with Alexa. Main problem is google wants to apply their artificial intelligence technique to home automation. That means guessing at what it thinks you said and grouping all devices by any common word...like 'lamp' so that a command with a common word in it may affect all devices containing that name. This makes very frustrating HA operation. Google doesn't seem to allow any calendar account except your google one. Try using that on two mobile phones without sharing email. Alexa allows other brands of calendars without complaining. Most of the time you just guess with google as they don't think users should know anything that 'they will handle better than you can' or should I say 'you are allowed to handle'. 'Total control...end to end' was nothing compared to what google controls while hiding it.

The details given are not always enough to troubleshoot a wiring as complex as I believe this is becoming. I also recommend an electrician to sort you out. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

I think you would really appreciate the difference between a constantly on guard device that listens to your every whim vs a cell phone that you have to get out of your pocket, turn it on, run an app, wait for the app to connect and then talk to it, maybe after pushing a button to activate it. We accumulate shopping items by voice, stuff calendar event into our mobile phone calendars, ask it for jokes, games, language translations, etc.. etc.. and the list goes on as we find more for it everyday. Now we use our multiple Alexas'a as a PA system to call the grandchildren up for meals. Get one when they go on sale. You won't regret it.

Insteon scenes were designed before ISY existed.

Another set of switches is not based on anything 4 way. It is based on the idea that nobody would wire two sets of 3 way circuits all in the same two boxes. It would serve no purpose having two switches beside each other with the same function. I suspect there are two more 3way switches elsewhere involved, and three 3 way circuits involved. Each box shown contains one end of a 3way circuit as well as a common 3way circuit shared between the boxes shown. The usage of 4 way switches in the bottom photo shows somebody used irregular practices.

I have never heard of a California 3 way. I don;t think these are old timers but rather old 4 way switches 4 way switches will work the same as 3way switches if you don't mind paying $30 a switch instead of $4. @trevorst: if you are not a good electrical troubleshooter you may consider getting an electrician with a good reputation. At this point (assuming all wires are disconnected and hot) I would find the breaker for the circuit. Turn it off and tape it over so it doesn't get flipped by accident. Get your meter out and prove all wires to be dead. Test to the metal boxes. Prove your meter still works, elsewhere. Hook your ohmmeter/buzzer from each wire to it's metal box. Touch each other end of wires to the metal box at their end until you can locate the one buzzes/shows continuity. Mark both end s of the wire with a cable number eg: A, B, C, or C1 etc... You may need to find the cable that feeds the lamp fixture by checking for voltage first and then using a continuity tester across the black and white of a cable (probably 14/2). Turn out all the bulbs to see if the continuity stops when the last bulbs is loosened. Mark that cable or wires say...."L" for lamps. Once you have done all that you should make yourself a diagram on paper of what you found and post it here. Perhaps somebody can make sense out of it and we can continue.

At one time I had posted a suggestion to have a small square debug area in the admin console under the program Tab, that we could place 2 or 3 variables and their current values for debug purposes. The idea was pooh-poohed at the time, and I cannot find the posting now. You could start a new thread in the suggestions thread, and see if more support will happen this time around. It would be nice to debug while watching programs and variable results (even a pseudo flag) on the same screen.

It should be noted that in the Admin Console, Programs must be loaded first before the variables Tab will show up. Variables are part of the program grouping in the ISY.

Since there are four 4-way switches being used for 3-way applications, and two switches are mounted in each box beside each other, you must have three switching circuits involved. The third switch is not being shown. This is based on having four switches at only two locations. This is not a useful wring layout and there must be more switches involved.

If Alexa hears the right words Then ....

I find just the opposite. I have about 30 items in my home called "XXX Light". If I ask Alexa to Turn on/Off any light there is no confusion. However if I ask Google Home to turn On XXX Light, it will turn on multiple lights up to the whole house because every light has the word "light in the name. I gave had to rename most of my device for GH and I just avoid using my three GH minis as much as possibe now. GH can also not support a different calendar fron the original account holder. If I give my wife access to my calendar she can access every google aspect of account, my location, email, and how long I spent anywhere I ever went. After months of trying to get some real support I just gave up. Google always just professed they didn't know.

I think there was some confusion there. Paul asked 'Can you share the program(s) that calls James_Front_Entry_Text? ' The question wasn't about other programs calling the same notification, it was about other programs calling this program. Use the admin console search program find to locate any occurrence of the program name text. This happens to all of us. We have some old forgotten program we forgot to hit save when we deleted it months ago. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

Alexa apps love to use the invisible menus that come and go depending on which way you hold your tongue. They drive me crazy. I just got off the phone with Alexa support trying to give a second person access. It was so simple but they don't like to tell you which account they are talking about. We signed in and out of Amazon about 6 times before it started to work. Still some hangovers from having a fake US account too.

Programs have a copy to clipboard option on a right click. Paste here

In the Alexa app and website, at the bottom of the list of devices you will find a "Forget All Devices" and a "Discover"

Are you using the contact indication reverse feature? Do you have a query program set to run at 10:00 PM each night? Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

I don't understand the last part of the sentence so I don't know what it was all aboot.

I think @Scott was referring to folders for programs. His American accent can be hard to read sometimes. Both (not Scott and me) can have folders. I organise my device folders by rooms and my program folders by function. Sorry. Too much HA in my life and I get crazy.....or so Scott would have you believe.

If you have a multiple bulb load, then change one to a best match incandescent. The load doesn't have to be very large.

I would get rid of the static IP adress outside of the router IP address allowance. Use the DCHP reservation table and let your router manage it properly. Static IP addresses not managed by the central DHCP server can do strange things sometimes. And they can be hard to find.

It started out in 1964 with two 12 foot long 2 x 4s and a logarithm chart trying to build a slide rule that would yeild four digit accuracy (felt pens are not fine enough). Then in 1971 when the 8 bit CPU, expandable to of 384 bytes, was released, and digital computers for the average person became possible, many addictions started

KPL backlights can be level adjusted from programs but to turn them on or Off you need to create a scene for each state. These scenes can then be operated by an included controlling status (device in the scene) or by a program.