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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.

I had a router that wouldn't allow that. Other devices could not talk to addresses outside it's assigned space unless I changed the router to allow ad hoc mode. IIRC my current router allows it.

Do you have a heat pump system? You photo would seem to indicate you do and it is a Venstar T1800 stat not an Insteon stat..

Sorry. An update was missed fixing the other part. Hallway Auto Light - [ID 0021][Parent 0001] If From Sunset + 1 minute To Sunrise - 1 minute (next day) And ( Control 'Front-Door / Front Door-Opened' is Switched On Or Control 'Basement Stairs Door-Opened' is Switched On ) Then Set Scene 'Hallway Auto Light' On Wait 2 minutes Set Scene 'Hallway' Off Else <---- still need this for the end of the time frame. ie: Sunrise - 1 min Wait 2 minutes Set Scene 'Hallway' Off

I would set the new owner up with an Amazon account, installing the 3 way systems that you intend to pass on so they have some basic HA and it works. You don't want action started against you because you sold them a dud system and the realestate agent will be the go between provoking the friction without any technical ability. If a few things work, they will work as a simple demonstration with a simple explanation that more complex things are possible but will require personalisation of the system. Leave small fragments of each technology working in a demonstrable manner so "you left a defective unit" can never be claimed.

Did you make any recent changes to your router? While you are in your router check the IP Address reservation in the DHCP setup page for your ISY to see if the IP address is still locked in place.