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Always factory reset Insteon devices. It gets rid of any links, X10 installed links, and weird setup memories that the device has gathered over the years. It's fast and easy on most devices.

The real truth is coming slowly. As much as I am going back to Alexa devices, my wife has turned to online library vocal books. For fun I asked Alexa to read the same book she has Meaf. library subscribed to and it started playing it, with pause, resume...the works! Awesome! Now since then, every day, I get a spam email from their book reading service to join etc.. ignore, ignore, ignore.. After a week of the spam, I decide it is legit and decide to click on the unsubscribe link. Oh no!. Maybe a phishing link? Only more subscribe to their club at $15 / month. Not happ'nen'!!! After another week of spam I tried a larger computer screen to dig around and get rid of this annoyance once and for all, or complain to amazon about their self-enabled skills. At the entrance to the webpage it notified me about being a dirty Canuckistani, and gives me the choice of the .com or the .ca website. This time I chose the .com website where I now find subscription options to the account (that I don't have), with all the "send junk" settings enabled. Disabled everything I could find but I could not find a place to scramble my recorded email address. We''ll see what happens before the threats to amazon start next week. Cloud dependence? They all want it! All I want is cloud charged batteries.

I have three GH minis and I will be getting rid of three of them. The ISY Portal stopped being able to maintain them but they still control my devices/programs with whatever was installed at the time of that capability quitting. However the GH minis always wanted to display AI capabilities that I never wanted and just confused my home automation attempts. eg. "Turn on XXX lights." GH decides that I have lots of devices with "lights" in the name and responds with "OK turning on 23 lights" eg."Turn on TV lights" GH decides I have a "TV lights" program as well as a "TV" so it turns on my TV or resets it, as well. eg. "Turn on blue Bedroom lights". GH decides it finds "blue" in other devices/programs and turns on the MB blue lights as well as my 15 Gathering lights blue. IOW; I can't trust GH for HA. I suppose good AI means guessing when you don't quite understand and GH applies this to HA, incorrectly. Alexa never does this, but will do the "Which device did you want?" BS too. Maybe GH is learning that their AI guessing doesn't work for HA, and is trying to re-ask more when some words are not over 99% clear? It seems with google Home you can never use the same word twice anywhere. It's a complete fail so far.

Thanks Asbril. Unfortunately "synch my devices" only syncs the GH devices with it's own (out of date) cloud devicebase. The update from the ISY Portal has been broken since about DST change time and no fix is in sight. They are just taking up key receptacle space for more Alexas. They have become useless for HA. Alexa does it so much better, anyway. I may keep one for the comedic responses that GH does.

In the Google Home Device list in ISY Portal. There are four icons, garbage can, download, send spokens, refresh. Yeah Amazon was behind at the beginning. Now the contest is on but I find GH makes too many AI attempts that cannot be tolerated for HA. It operated things it should constantly. We hardly use it because we can't trust it and GH only understands two word phrase lengths max. For candid Internet answers GH wins.

There is a download button in the google home setup page. Mine hasn't worked since google changed it's security. The previously installed devices all work from GH but the ISY Portal doesn't work to download into GH anymore. See a few other recent threads in the forum here. Tickets were opened by Benoit (writer) and myself with no solution from google yet. Get an Echo.

This is using my KPL but the code and technique would be exactly the same. My advise would be to get rid of the remote controlled door locks and get an automatic self-locking Schlage combination lock. The 9V battery lasts about 2-3 years on my 4 units, it locks when you close it, and can be unlocked with a programmable combination using one hand in about 1.5 seconds. The autolocking mechanism can be locked off when desired but it will beep at you to remind you every time it is operated then. As usual I have a manual key hidden in the neighbourhood just in case. Neither of us carry any keys for anything for the last five years.

Well I found my own fix for this. I was using a Subnet mask of 255.255.254.0 so I could expand my network to 512 IP addresses, if ever needed. It seems when 255.255.254.0 is used with the Wake on Lan setup, the broadcast address must be 192.168.1.255, which would be the highest address of the range allowed. (Think contiguous addressing bits, not groups as IP addresses are usually presented with) I tried using the matching subnet mask in the ISY WoL specs and voila!...devices worked and turned themselves on! Success. Now here comes the nasty part: I went back to my router and changed the subnet mask to 255.255.255.0 like ordinary people would use.....wow! Nothing worked again. Thinking that my television may have the wider mask subnet installed, I tried that change there with no success. After many trials and failures, it turns out I had to disable ISY's DHCP, it self reboots, then enable DHCP, rebooting ISY again, so that all that automagic DHCP stuff picks up the new subnet mask from the router, and ISY will stop trying to use the old mask. In the end I can see I have to power cycle every Ethernet device in the house in order for them to pick up the new subnet mask via DCHP service. A router reboot seems to have resolved most devices but not many use the broadcast technique to be found.

I cannot seem to make WoL function with anything from ISY. I can make this work just fine from my Asus router, so it seems to be enabled in the receiver, but not from ISY. I have multiple times compared the MAC address for matching. from the router to ISY. Also, I cannot turn on my MediaPC from ISY either, but it works fine from my Asus router test, also. My Samsung 55" doesn't seem to be WoL capable so I cannot make it work from either source.. I understand: -WoL is a brodcast signal that is sent to address XX.YY.ZZ.255 as the IP address of the Off device is not established yet. The "claculate" button geberates this address. I did use the Save button mny times. Test does noting so far. A test program does nothing so far. -WoL must be addressed to the MAC address due to th above lack of IP address. What am I missing for WoL in ISY?

I wouldn't call it simpler (compound logic) but better for sure. That should be more bulletproof for a basic workhorse resolution. Then other fancy ideas for the lights etc.. could be added in other programs after and still keep the basic solution wanted.

Better you than me. Glad you found it. We all learned from this for next time.

Don't make a complex program. Make a very simple program for each task you stated. You wanted the bathroom fan to turn off 20 minutes after being turned on? If ....Control Fan is Switched On Then ....Wait 20 minutes ....Set Fan to Off You wanted the bathroom light to turn on the fan? If ....Control Light is switched On Then ....Set Fan to On Make each job simple following your own requirements. That's just about it. Control/switched watches the switch paddle. Status watches the light level.

What Goose66 said. I have used every version of ISY since v5.0.1 and found a few bugs in v5.0.2 only. Never anything that made it "unstable".

This a technique using only ISY's logging feature (need Pro) that Mwareman created and a few of us developed further. The loggin method, the log, and the charting code is all inside the ISY itself. A browser is required to use the charting code.

Your posted words almost writes the program. Use Control is Switched On and a turn off the receptacle in the Else section. You can use another program as a watchdog to watch the receptacle for ever being on more than 45 minutes and send a notification to yourself.

I assume you will notify yourself if you ever have a leak? Add instructions into that note on how to handle the Leak Detectors. They need to be dried and reset, then retested to see if they still work. IIRC the ON state will remain on forever and they cannot send a Wet signal again until reset.

Test, test, test. Simulate, and test again. Put instructions in your notifications how to reset the damn things.

Any progress on this google Home permission problem? A few others have the same problem now. Since users do not have to download items to GH very often, I wonder if anybody has this working. Google seemed to go through a lot of security changes about a month ago. I had to change passwords on accounts, ,as well as a few neighbours contacted me for help when their email accounts stopped working and got the messages to update their passwords. One neighbour told me she didn't sleep for almost a week as she thought somebody hacked into her accounts on her iPad after receiving the stupid messages about all the devices connected to their account. Google is becoming a PITA with their latest rounds of messing with people's stuff. I haven't had any success with google support. The most intelligent response I have received so far was, "This is very strange. I will ask around and get back to you".

This is the explanation given, but I agree. It doesn't have a function. No other program calls this program, only the power up call from ISY. It only happens once. My guess is that it was originally a State variable in an early attempt to create a startup at power up time that failed and it was changed to an integer variable. Testing would not find useless code, and all would still function as planned. It also may have been used for subsequent programs downstream to know status of the programs so that time races don't cause problems. These programs are not shown.

No program changes at all. I just save my stat variables for when I really need them as the ISY trigger engine is going to evaluate them every time even when they can never trigger a program. That may slow down the ISY logic engine. Use Integer variables whenever possible like this situation. First I assumed you are using State variable due the small "s" at the beginning of the names. In your program 2 the line with the "time is 12:00" - is only true at exactly 12:00 - is only true when ISY's time clock detects it as a trigger (at 12:00) - any other time or reason the ISY trigger engine is evaluating this If Section program logic it will be False. When you AND the time line with any other logic, it doesn't matter what the logic evaluates to, the "time is 12:00" will be False and Else will run. This means when the State variable changes value, the ISY engine will evaluate the whole If section and always find False, running else. This is the reason a State variable is not required for this logic. State variable can trigger logic evaluation. Integer variables do not. Allow me to give another more visual example If ....time is 12:00 ....AND ....time is 12:30 Then .... when will this ever happen? Else ....this will execute at 12:00 and 12:30 every day. Making sense?

State variables would not be needed there. Program2's "Time is 12:00" will always render False except when it does it.

I have tried to keep to only dimmable LED bulbs as they should have better power supplies built into them.....hopefully...but as mwester posted above..YES. Try swapping the bulbs back to incandescent and see what it does.

I tried MWareman's (above) method also, along with a few other techniques. Now when they stop working I replace the batteries. They usually start to multiple flash the LED on the front when they see motion. Saved a few dozen programs I record the low batt signal in a variable list in case I miss the dying process while away but they don't all report in properly or consistently.

Not directly or simply. (ISY) io_guys has written a basic Modbus node for NodeLink but I am using a SunSpec Modbus protocol with my OutBack equipment Mate3. This means that items can change Modbus addresses with equipment changes. With tens of thousands of points there was a lot of filtering on the fly. I wrote a Python3 bridge to interrogate my modbus port and pick out what I need, and then stuff it into my ISY. If you have any Python3 skills, and the modbus is SunSpec protocol, it could be adapted for your usage.

IMHO UDI needs to implement a solution / hack for this in their next release. Of course it would come with a disclaimer, it may cease to function at any time until SH releases the proper spec. to them. This has become an issue using this item as a negative marketing ploy, by certain individuals, against the ISY994i. This seems to be SH attempting to damage UDI. MS and IBM ended up in legal battles over this type of behaviour several times.