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Benoit hasn't released it yet . oooops.. Sorry. He announced (up higher) it was out this morning.

Definitly. Alexa has been increasing in problems lately with long delay (10-30 seconds) very frequently as well as just ignoring requests, and multiple units duplicating commands. I changed all of my units to "Echo" (from "Alexa") for a wake word as a workaround for the Ecobee4 stat clash, and now all the units are babbling away in a quiet room sometimes. It seems "Echo" is even worse than "Alexa" as a wake word. Seems even a click sound can wake my Echo / Dots. I constantly have flashing lights on the top of these as they are becoming more of a nuisance than a help. I hope V3 can help some of this. Not the Wake word but the delays.

Fill the heat shrink with silicone caulking and then shrink them.

Sunrise will also cancel the Then / Off portion. If From Sunset To Sunrise (next day) And ( Control 'Garage / Double Door' is switched On Or Control 'Garage / Single Door' is switched On ) And Status 'Garage / Garage Side Door Switch' is Off Then Set Scene 'Garage / Garage Lights' On Wait 10 minutes and 10 seconds Set Scene 'Garage / Garage Lights' Off Else Wait 10 minutes and 10 seconds Set Scene 'Garage / Garage Lights' Off

Fred. I like to use a less definitive logic. In this case it (99) would not likely ever happen but... If ....stat.temp <= 99 Then .....whatever The other thing that can combine a bit of a check filter into it If ....stat.temp > 60 AND ...stat.temp < 85 Then .....do what I want Else ....notify me something is wrong with stat.

Saskatchewan! Yeah, I have often though there must be a cheap plug-in device that can remotely be turned off and then it self times back on without any power. They could be used in many places. I have an Insteon OnOff module on my router with an ISY algorithm to cycle it, but what could do that for an ISY and PLM? ISY could turn itself off but not back on again.

Factory reset each device and use the admin console "restore, if they were already linked in. Takes a few seconds each device.

I tried this but with so many gadgets using the same device it ties up Insteon traffic. I had nothing but trouble doing this and worked out a different solution. Flashing about every 5 seconds was the limit to not tie up the rest of my Insteon actions. The MS action, directly linked scene with the light (same KPL) could take up to 45 seconds to respond at times, while the flashing was happenning. Even just operating the LEDs without a Wait comes with a severe warning you may cause All-On comm clashes. Not sure why this is predicted to be such a problem but I don't understand the multi-mode technology jump problems going on with v5 either.

Yes. Powerline has reports of working 500' away for many. Sent from my SGH-I257M using Tapatalk

Sometimes dissimilar metals can bond to each other. A smear of silcone grease on the prongs works wonders for some receptacles that are too tight, can do it. Nasty situation.

I have a shop outbuilding located about 20 feet off my garage far end. Then the garage is about 28 feet across until the closest Insteon dual band device is pluggedin beside my dual Outback Inverter system. The outbuilding is coated in metal foil insulation and it has a metal roof. Even the joints in the insulation are covered in oil tape. Unless you locate an FM radio un front of a window the whole dial goes blank and receives nothing. Despite the RF blocking inside this outbuilding the Insteon device comm's work perfectly. I have the occasional miss inside my house but never to my shop.

That would work. We always have to watch which order we set variables to actually do things in so with power failure the importaant one doesn;t get done while the less important one doesn't. In this case the Init $s.siren variable is the most important, not the program enabling.

Welcome to the dark side! Seach your feelings. You know v5.0.10 to be true.

That slways brings us back to one logical error...a power failure during a wait period. Once the option to run at startup 'if', 'then', or 'else' is implemented, it might actually work most of the time. Sent from my SGH-I257M using Tapatalk

Guessing you mean PST?

I believe that is usually a WiFi connection problem when you get that message back. Upgrades may have been in progress.

I have found variables to be very reliable and simple to use. Most of my multiple scene rooms are controlled by variables. A Switchlinc stuffs values into a variable depending on the sequence and a bank of programs in a folder react like magic. They never fail and can be operated from anywhere in any program without understanding what the lighting is currently doing, Scenes used, programs used, or Network resources. As an example when my garage door is open, I flash a corner lamp red, about 1 pulse per 5 seconds. When the garage door closes, what was the lamp doing? It's easy as I don't need to care. Just refresh the variable value the variable contains and the whole room restores to whatever it was doing, Even if Off. If I change the initiator switch to a KPL or something else. I just use the same values and the bank of programs I haven't seen for years does all the work.

Because I can't think of a way to handle what you have done.... The only thing I can think of is to use a variable with a second siren program to disable the actual noise. Then you could monitor the variable and flash a light or other lower annoyance while the siren is disabled. The variable could be controlled with the 5x switch action. Clever idea! I use a KPL with four keystroke combinations for several things like that.

I was incorrectly thinking he was referring to the LED on the IOLinc.My bad there. Still not a problem. Consider the LED a closed door indicator and look for it to be OFF, or reverse the Scene operation using a program if necessary.

Now the LED indicates the door is closed. Is that a problem?

Let's not fill the forum threads with constant criticism when some opinion won't change anybody's life. I think it's the NY state being too close to Canada that causes this.

Even if Stu made the term up, English is a flowing language with constant changes. Who are we to argue with a new term?

WTF? C.A.I. maybe, but OTOH, OMG! AFAIC is the CIA also AI?

Are you turning On a scene with devices set to Off, or are you turning Off a scene with devices set to On?

For me, ISY can simulate low levels of AI. It is artificial and it has some intelligence, in the form of decision making, based on sensing parameters. Alexa does display some AI via the cloud databases, but not via HA.. Alexa in combination with ISY, has no AI and as lilyoyo1 posted, is just a glorified remote.