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Maybe you don't know about event triggered programming style. No looping is required. Just put a simple variable =150 in the if section and Then will run every and any time the value changes to 150. Of course you need to use a STATE variable to make it trigger programs auto magically. Sent from a tiny keyboard. Response may be brief.

See Stu's comment above. If you are using the latest V2 Skill then On runs Then and Off runs Else. It doesn't matter what is in the If section then as ut will never be run. I don't use scenes as they are only for Insteon (I have no Zwave) but I have many other types of lighting LED strips and smart bulbs. I only use programs and single devices to control from my Alexa vocals.

The Portal exists in the cloud = UDI server. You connect to it (Portal) and it has an intimate releationship with your ISY and no router security holes created.

Echo doesn't know the diferrence between types of devices, only that they are all just names with vocal definitions.

CAO TAGs Sent from a tiny keyboard. Response may be brief.

Another thing I noticed is the restricted text area. The outside only seems to generate patterns and the Centre displayed about seven characters of text. Way too small for larger messages. Sent from a tiny keyboard. Response may be brief.

Very cool display idea! What are the arms sticking out in various directions for? LOL Seriously! My one sons loves to do this at parties. Nobody ever believes him,until he demonstrates it. It went like this with two teenage girls. Hi! What grade are you in? ....we are both in grade ten. (pulls out his pocket watch with hands) Can you tell me what time this shows? ...I don't know...(shrugging shoulders) (turns to the other girl) How about you? Can you tell me what time this shows? ....I don't know. We never took that in school.

Only if you take the combination package where you subscribe to the Network Resource module instead of owning usage of it forever.

What were you thinking to bridge Alexa to the rest interface? Sent from a tiny keyboard. Response may be brief.

Look for threads here about the CAO Tags. People love their features and accuracy and multiple options to support isy and also work in dependant if anything else. For a self controlled heat zone without any safeties I would really avoid the Insteon thermostat. I have two now and wouldn't trust them for much. Read more threads about them about 2015 year. Sent from a tiny keyboard. Response may be brief.

I cycle mine in coordination with the furnace fan cycles so that they share a common fan cycle. I decide whether to short cycle (3 minutes) or long cycle (50 minutes) the HRV depending on these criteria. -Evening cool down House Temperature >= Setpoint AND House temperature >= Outside temperature AND ( House humidity >= humidity setpoint AND House humidity dewpoint >= outside humdity dewpoint ) OR ( House humidity <= humidity setpoint AND House humidity dewpoint <= outside humdity dewpoint ) ...OR -Morning recovery House Temperature <= Setpoint AND House temperature <= Outside temperature AND ( House humidity >= humidity setpoint AND House humidity dewpoint >= outside humdity dewpoint ) OR ( House humidity <= humidity setpoint AND House humidity dewpoint <= outside humdity dewpoint ) If either of the two conditions are true then the HRV gets a long cycle, otheriwse it gets a short cycle. I have a large room humidifier for the whole house and if I bring in too much fresh ait in the winter I have to fill 3 gallons of containers with water almost twice per day. By managing it with ISY I can fill them about every two-three days. If I shut the HRV off totally after about a week we feel lethargic and not well. Yes, our home is air tight within an inch of it's life and double 2x4 walls, each with R-13 insulation, and completely covered in crack sealed 2" of Styrospan for an additional R-10 with no framing stud breaks. Some walls are thicker and fully insulated. HRV air is needed or our clothes dryer would not work or the range burner exhaust fan. We have to breathe as a compromise to saving heating costs.

I haven't seen any changes here yet, for mine. Amazon needs to add a few more names that aren't quite so common and enough of them, that every TV show and movie doesn't trigger it a dozen times per evening by harrassing the poor girl with ridicule. I hope the girl that "donated her voice" is getting paid well. She sings quite a few songs now.

I have had two Insteon MSes fault and sent erroneous motion detected signal while I was away for extended times and could not do anything to investigate. When I a security system subscriber I never had one of my 6? wired-in DSC MSes fault ever. This is what I am being told by professionals also. they all may do a good job of detection but it's the faulted detection that is the problem. You are half way around the world....now what do you do? Since then I have instituted a two or greater before taking level 5 action. Also you will find that MSes for intruder detection (surprise!) will not be placed in the same locations as HA MSes.

It could be done easily by having a RPi run a heartbeat program off an insecure AC circuit. Have ISY monitor the heartbeat. Nodelink already contains this feature if you have need, or use it, for anything else.

Yeah, that's the idea. Not only to get the old programs out of the way, but turn them off while you develop new ones, without interference. If it doesn't work, or you are finished for that session, do the same with the new ones and turn the old ones back on for the night until the next development session by removing the condition or making it "If 1 is 1"

The multiple devices report is a lie. I believe it is picked out of random responses used, when it just didn't understand/parse the name to anything in it's vocalbase. I get the same thing constantly with certain names. I had a lot of problems when I had multiple vocals starting with the same word like. Blue Light Blue Mood Blue mood Blue It seems if the first word is found more than once it just gives up and doesn't parse the second word. Sometimes it seems that ONLY the first word matters and I am running out of words. I cannot, for the life of me, make anything work with T.V. or Tee Vee in the vocal work at all. Another new problem is using Alexa to operate a receiver for radio stations now. Anything with FM, or a radio station name it jumps over to it's repertoire of radio stations. After trying a few it assumes everything I say is a radio station and now I get it playing radio stations without any subscriptions. Some jerk station is named "amplifier" also Didn't happen before! There is some weird things that seem to be changing lately. I am getting a lot of just going away with no responses. I think there may be some self-learning algorithm going on to establish what is noise and what is actual commands.

The method I use is to drop all your programs into a folder and disable it with If 1 is not 1...etc.. That gets them out of the way until proven lesser than what you are doing. The usual way is to copy each program and disable all the originals. Of course you know what may come....delete all your experimentation and re-enable the originals, if it happening for you. BTW; Mine may be confusing for you at first. When I label things, I have learned from experience to make the labels meaningful. Like not calling a program "Failure" and having it run True while no failure is happening. Looking at these from a distance on MobiLinc Pro I hate seeing all my BattLow programs running True, when they should be called BattOK. You should see a lot of logic reversals, due to my Canadian persnickettyness.. LOL

Remember that Boolean logic has an order of operations just like arithmetic rules do. (BEDMAS) AND has a higher order or operations than OR does. So when we do A or B or C and D...it is implied to be A or B or (C and D) This become tougher when you do it vertically.

I sent a complete package over PM to you when you initially posted about LS monitoring not functioning correctly.

I take it you got it working and tested OK then! That is the way I started verbatim. Then I started changing names to something understandable and more sane. After that more mods happenned. LOL I still find most of it unreadable without hours of studying. Nice!

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Define a State variable called $sHouse.away Create several programs to control the variable. Program Leaving.vocal If Then ...set $sHouse.away = 1 <----impending leaving Else ....set $sHouse.away = 0 Set up Portal vocals for this program and use 'Alexa. Turn On Away' (run Then) 'Alexa Turn Off Away' (run Else) To complete the task of setting the Away mode variable Program Just leaving If ....HDS is switched On/Off Not sure which way you want it. AND ....$sHouse.away = 1 <----impending leaving Then ....set $sHouse.away = 2 <-----actually gone Else ....--- Now you can write as many programs as you like based on this variable Program Just Got Home If ....$sHouse.away = 2 AND ....HDS is switched On/Off Then ....set $sHouse.away = 0 Else ....-- Now your ISY knows if you are home or not. Program Evening Lighting If ....$sHouse.away = 0 AND ....From sunset ....To 11:00 PM Then ....turn on evening lighting Program Shut All Off If ....$sHouse.away = 2 Then ....turn off all lights stuff Else ....-- I think you will eventually find that you will need an additional variable called say.. $sHouse.vacation as they are different needs functions. I don't set my heat back or HRV off unless I am going to be gone for more than 48 hours etc...

I also use a program to flash a MiLight coloured bulb Red every ten seconds until the garage door closes, and then return to it's normal white colour and level. To be done more easily it takes V5.x, still in alpha level of development, to save levels, and restore thme to a device.

I was involved in calibrating gas detectors for many years, developing my own procedures and records. They were primarily for detection of hydrogen sulfide (sewer) gas in confined spaces. The actual detector sensor elements were actually just fuel cells combining oxygen with it's internal chemicals, and producing a relative voltage. After a year of oxygen exposure installed in the instruments they would require calibration again, and then about every year after that as the cell depreciated. Basically all these did were to detect oxygen levels, If they were outside of human exposure limits, ring some alarms and indicate oxygen levels on the display. Maybe flash an LED to indicate toxic gas(ses). The fuel cells slowly wore out on average IIRC about 3-5 years after removing them from the oxygen proof packaging they were shipped in. It wouldn't be worth it to replace thee cells in residential gas detectors so they get tossed. In these human safety units worth about $3K each it was a different story. The fuel cells were about $80 each IIRC. In later years with more serious safety concern from the Gov. safety boards people, etc. calibrated gas mixtures were used to calibrate and test these sensor more accurately at detecting the gassses the concern was for in the first place. Easliy fooled instruments, but toxic gasses or not, lack of oxygen takes the same initial evac procedures.

I used my ISY994 to setup the trigger levels for my dryer detection. I have set it at 3 Watts so I can detect the interior light and also know if the dryer door was left open too long, causing a cold draught in the house during winter weather.