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I use the variable set and detect method in many places. Once setup with the bank of programs as drivers the modularity allows easy changes without recreating and remembering how obscure programming paths work. Use of variables to control lighting scenes, programs and devices also allows many different inputs to control that variable. eg: To run a sequence of lights that independently dim and change colouring involving Insteon overhead floods, MiLight bulbs, Hue bulbs and LEDenet RGBW strips it is as easy as one line of code in a program. then ....set $sGathRm.mode = $cMODE.SUNSET This would take a myriad of programming to trigger every program, and scene involved. This would be nasty to change three programs that use that sequence. The central variable control makes it very easy and modular for future mods.

I did a blend of ver 4 and 5 once and made a mess of my ISY. If you have, or do not have, a good backup, factory reset your ISY, do a restore, set up your location times zone and a few other things and continue like nothing happened. I think there is some scene problems updating past early version 5.x. They had to be touched up to continue. IMHO well worth it though.

I believe this categorisation by Alexa is or the prupose of linking only certain devices to an Amazon device. Since I do not have an android v5.0+ OS (or maybe an iOS device) this is only a PITA to me.

The two category selections are not related. One is an ISY category and the other is Alexa's categorisation = "device" or "not a device". This caused me some grief, at first, wondering where half my devices went.

FallenAngel discovered their app doesn't function properly on android less than v5 as declared by Amazon on the PlayStore. I can confirm both sides of that. Android v4 and v5 Sent from my SGH-I257M using Tapatalk

I've been consuming v5 since the stone age without any major problems. ....Fred Flintstone Sent from my SGH-I257M using Tapatalk

V5 Sent from my SGH-I257M using Tapatalk

I have found my applet in various places over the years. Look in the start pullup menu under ISY. Sent from my SGH-I257M using Tapatalk

The "send On commands only' option need to be selected so that only ISY programs control the Off cycle.

Yeah... four and a half seconds! That is too frequent! Sorry. My bad. Must be our time zone difference.

Your updates for each parameter are only about every four and a half minutes. That isn't unreasonable for any polled data system. Less than that you would get into human noticeable delays. I don't understand the polling you are referring to. I didn't know anything had to poll ISY, but rather ISY initiated the push of any events to the subscriber, after the initialisation dump.

Look like a defective stat. I assume this is an Insteon 2441?TH. Insteon devices are not polled by ISY typically. They report using push technology when things change. The 2441ZTH (note 'Z') will send humidity "CLIHUM" every about 45 seconds IIRC on AC power (adapter) and about every 5 minutes on batteries. You don't happen to have the stat powered from an AC adapter with a bad power supply filter capacitor, do you?

Ouch! I think we did but were too darn nice. N'est-ce pas? This brings up a good question. "Does Alexa understand French?"...or even Spanish?...from testing just now...nope.

Good catch! That would explain a lot of the problems. Thanks FallenAngel!!! I would be sure the Canadian location problems should have all gone away that I had before. This and previous major vs minor geo problems have confused the troubleshooting. Amazon is definitely playing OS favourites here! Again some brands lose out Now the decision to be made. A few Google Homes are a far cry cheaper than a a new android mobile phone. I only have five amazon devices so far. Maybe a different browser on my android tablet may make it work but for now I don't see any more effort to make this work. it would be nice to make the intercom feature work but that shouldn't need a permanent usage of an android 5 or later. Now I have to figure out why all my Dots and Echoes blurped as loud as they can go, and now have yellow throbbing on top for the last four hours, after reloading the android 5 app again.They all HA function still

There are certain things not allowed in Canada for various political and economical reasons. Right now I am discovering huge differences between browser versions. Google chrome on my Android 6.0 tablet is not allowed to access the app due to it being reported as "not compatible". My Notebook with win 7 x 32 using IE 11 cannot access the web page version. The "Remember me", "Show Password" and "Log in" buttons have been disabled so no access can be had there. My desktop with win 10 using IE 11 can load the webpage but none of the new features work...yet. My mobile Android 4.2.? loads and runs the app just fine but no new features are enabled...yet. This is changing weekly as features seem to get enabled. My mobile Android 5.? device, after removing everything and reinstalling (it wouldn't update or recognised it needed to) seems to have all the features now! AFAICT That's one success so far.

Many claim they can add an amazon device into a group. That way they can use commands like. Alexa... Turn on the light. and alexa will know what room you are in, and operate the correct room's light using the same generic device command in any room.

Alexa devices are not avialabe in my mobile apps on three different mobile devices. This is somehow account related using the latest version. And yes, the whole system has been disabled, forgotten, removed, deleted, reloaded, sideloaded, many times. Google support has only responded with the canned "reset it" help, so far. Ecobee immediately admitted they have many complaints from that end and are working on their connections. I have seen one improvement there, so far, with the response arbitration working now.

I can't see any statuses at all and there is no control either in my app. Every week or so I find another feature working that others have been using for months. Very weird. I use the alexa app mostly for a grocery shopping list. Best feature alexa has other than HA. User named lists just started functioning this week for me also. Alexa....add chocolate! .....Chocolate is added to your shopping list. Alexa....add chocolate to my Costco list! ....chocolate is added to your Costco list. only trouble is loading the app takes about 45-60 seconds in the store. Too slow!

I discovered another problem with leaving them run. It was missing some signal into ISY, but I cannot remember what it was exactly. I also had to disable the programs and just re-enable when needed.

My ecobee4 thermostat just showed up in my amazon alexa app, for the first time after being installed about a month ago. Also the ecobee4 uses the arbitratration with my other amazon devices now , so that she doesn't compete with the other units anymore! :) Things are constantly changing with amazon devices.

I have proven differently. As I posted previously a few times. With a new computer and no google accounts registered on it amazon allowed me to access the app. As soon as I added google accounts to the NEW computer amazon refused access to their app with a message they the app was not allowed for usage in my country. I was in the United Sates.

That was supposed to be only a heartbeat but perhaps the latest status gets sent with it. Mine always seems to have a status shown but I always test my programs right from the sensor and then tap the button to reset the status. In this case ISY has been rebooted, creating unknown statuses, but my ISY has been rebooted many times and the status still ends up being filled in somehow.

You are correct. My apologies for that confusion. That has changed. The devices were previously all in the skill and when I disabled v2 the devices had no place to hide. They were all gone! Now alexa remembers all your devices as well as your passwords.

Just a thought for using a KPL. The LEDs indicating the temperature level could be turned on, one for each temperature range or... Turn on LEDS only on the one side of the KPL and all ones underneath it with your scene definitions. This would give the bar graph effect for the indicators up one side of the KPL instead of a single LED spot. Easily visible indication from a distance.

That's a little confusing. Having problems with these new features MIA I notice this. If you disabled V2 there are no devices to "forget all". The smart home devices list is shown in the ISY skill and the skill should not have existed after you disabled it. Also there should have been no place to click on "Discover". I have to suspect somehow your V2 disable got ignored. You ISY portal connection is made by the ISY skill and not by the amazon app. I suspect the V3 skill somehow absorbed your V2 skill that wasn't actually removed.