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I am sure this will improve. It has been a long time coming. However the statement "over to the Sonos cloud to be turned into a command" has proven, in this case, to be false, at this point. If Sonos was handed a string of text as a command, the sonos sytem would not have to stop while Alexa answers every question and the Sonos sources should be available for selection. Only the Alexa sources were available. The way it is described in your supplied information text box, is the way I would have expected it to work and the way it should work IMHO. If you group your speakers in the Sonos app, Alexa is done. Any music you achieve will be whatever each speaker was left playing previously. His whole house was playing different sources. This seems opposite f what I posted above. Still some quirks yet.. Hopefully it will get worked out. Sonos has a lot to lose, if they don't get with the technology.

My son just got his Dot working with Sonos. The skill is marked beta and has some snags, yet. It only works with some Amazon music sources, for now. The music only comes out the grouping of speakers set in the Sonos App. If you say "Echo...play Beatles music in Kitchen" and your Sonos speaker systems are grouped it will report there is no such thing as Beatles music. If you talk to Alexa further while music is playing it interrupts the music playing, indicating it is completely Alexa dependent for sources. Your Sonos sources do not appear to be accessible, only your Alexa music sources. IOW: The jobs are not passed to your Sonos system to function. Sonos only acts as a slave speaker(s) for Alexa.

I wonder if this will improve the multiple SSID problems with multiple Echoes completing tasks if more than one hears the commands. I found my Echoes can't arbitrate which one will respond if they don't live on the same router SSID. Perhaps with absolute enrollment ID it may get around that problem and stop multiple voices.. Sent from my SGH-I257M using Tapatalk

This a normal effect. ISY wakes up knowing nothing of device statuses until they report in the first time. Walk through all the zones and test them. Sent from my SGH-I257M using Tapatalk

ZigBee is not an exact science and there are many different protocols that are not compatible with each other. At some very low level of the protocol (very basics) Zigbee devices are compatible, but different brands cannot talk to each other. UDI has boards to support only two of them and you pick one.

It's an easy check with the traffic inside your router and nothing is happening now, with first addressing Alexa but that could change so the fear of hacking is eminent. Short of the nasty comments about that stupid neighbour, and the body in the basement, what else is there to hear?

IIRC, the police were told Alexa only recorded the text version of triggered commands. However, looking at the app now we know this is not true anymore. Under certain response situations (I think mis-understood ones) you can play back your own voice from an online recording.

No. Read my post #14. The ISY board is only for interfacing with specific brands of utility meters supporting user interrogation.

The way I understand it ZigBee, is only a very low level protocol anyway and having ZigBee makes you compatible with just your own protocol at the higher level layers in the OSI model. ZigBee devices are only compatible with their own brands, and not between brands at all. Of course, providing that is all true, it means Echo is hardware prepared for software licencing to anybody that will jump on-board later. Software is downloaded every day into so many things these days, without our knowledge sometimes. I know Hue professes to use ZigBee but my other bulbs and controllers use Ethernet and proprietary 2.4 GHz.

I never did get my 2411T working. It came with a sender cable wired incorrectly. I rewired the LED cable that were wired back to back polarity wise. It works but the linking doesn't even beside my PLM. It is sitting on the edge of the garbage can waiting for a push one way the other. http://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/19963-ir-sender-2411t-wont-connect/?hl=2411t

Yes it does say that but I think it has always stated that regardless of how many. I did notice it at the beginning (three years ago?) but it never meant anything to me or seemed to cause any problems. Get a new focal band on your glasses?

I would be trying torroids on sensitive circuits. They are easy to slide over the ends of any wire but they may block Insteon signals from passing too. Improvements may take some very educated trial and error using different filter types.. Hopefully one more trial than error though. Sent from my SGH-I257M using Tapatalk

For the first year or so, mine would auto load the admin console if there was only one URL listed, but I had to manually double click the desired one, if two or more URLs were present. Then for almost the last two years no auto load would happen regardless of how many URLs were listed. I always had to double click the desired URL. In the last few months the "ISY finder" NOW always auto loads the top URL listed regardless of how many are listed. I can live with either way but it has changed back and forth.

Mine did that for two years where I had ti manually select it every boot. Now it started booting automatically again. I have no explanation. Sent from my SGH-I257M using Tapatalk

If the generator is an electromechanically produced waveform, the 5% THD will be with a certain load only. Usually almost or full load. Also with type the frequency usually wanders somewhat and that make affect Insteon timing. If the generator is an electronically produced waveform (inverter) or co-gen purposes, the 5% THD is usually with a connection to the grid supply that absorbs much of the inverter voltage steps noise. If it a stand alone inverter type, the 5% THD will be at a well loaded situation. These types have a hard time producing a smooth waveform with certain loads, usually light loads.

Newer usage (slang) in some English meaning it cannot be broken down any further. ...or maybe cannot be stopped.

V5 can do it with seconds resolution so much better. I posted a series of programs to do this in the V5 section.

Nice! Did you know ISY has a modulo arithmetic function to make this easier? $hours /= 3600 $seconds %= 3600

You will need a few support programs to work with this basic timing loop but yes. It may make your ISY somewhat busy. You will need a program to run at midnight to transfer the accumulator variable to another one to remember it and then reset the accumulator variable, a program to send out the remember variable at a convenient time. You will lose timing if ISY power cycles, in all cases. If you run v5.+ it has a seconds since midnight function variable that is easy to accumulate from.

Use the Belias programs linked to in Post #10, this thread.

Here is a copy from the Belias program thread. 3d - Create a program called Leak Startup and ENABLE RUN AT START-UP If $iStartUp is 0 Then Run Program 'KitchenSink - Variable Control 2' (Then Path) Run Program 'StorageRoom - Variable Control 2' (Then Path) Wait 5 seconds $iStartUp = 1 Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') ** Set to run at start-up ** Here is the thread where the power up program was copied from. Post #1 http://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/11566-leak-sensors-a-suggested-complete-program-package/page-1 Now mind you, this program will also cause notifications to happen at the same time, 25 hours after ISY power up, also, if no heartbeats were detected.

I have a common initialisation program for the whole ISY. In that, I reset all MS low batts as well as all Leak detectors heartbeat detection programs. It's always a pain deciding where to keep these programs...all in one common place or with each device. Either way, it's always an easy forget to maintain thing, when so many other things are going on updating programs with new ideas.

Let's see what I have online here.... This one is a list of Network Resources I use. Typically I use three for each bulb. I could use a set of four NR for any all bulbs but ISY has a buffering problem and can send your new variable value for an old NR send. Using a set of three for each bulb resolves that and eliminates the safe timer using Wait 1 second between every send. I use one for Setting levels, one for simple On, and one for simple Off. Typically you would set up a brightness level, a colour and any other parameter in Integer variables. Then when you call a NR it uses those memory values to send the parameters. This avoids a bank of NR for every brightness level and colour combination numbering into hundreds or more. This one is for a bulb specified variable = one NR does all bulbs but is not used due to the above argument. Ths one is only for bulb 2 as specified in the URL. Other parameters are specified in variables

It would be better if you quoted a least a small piece of somebody's post. It gets that person's attention, let's others know who you are asking, and your post just happens to fall on a new page so it makes it hard to even know what you are posting about.

"close" works to turn off a light I tested but "open" just get's ignored. V5.0.10 / Echo / ISY Portal