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ecobee3 seems like the best choice for a remote sensor with automatic sensor switching based on motion detection. Multiple wireless sensors Unfortunately this takes NodeLink running on a selection of computers, usually a RPi for price and reliability. Cloud dependant control and status. Another alternative would be Venstar T7900, which can be accessed through NodeLink also, by no cloud dependence to be controlled. One wired sensor input available.

I just found a few dozen devices listed with French names. Forgot all the devices, and did another discover that resumed where I had left it with proper names and count. Strange thing is, I never did a discover while this problem was ensuing.

I can remember a few previous threads, maybe a year or two back, where people complained of the same thing, switching masters back, randomly.

I did, and you still asked this, so I assumed you missed my post. "I wonder if that only works with separate accounts or if it would work with multiple echos on the same account like I have it setup?" Crosstalk!

You're so getting lucky.

OMG! We have to stop meeting like this! Are we up to 302 yet?

See post #17

They dont last long in woodstoves.

OK. here's one! How about the microwave oven?

Maybe you never had a temperature monitor in that room before and with a two story house, the air stratification, now heating season has started, always makes that room a lot warmer than downstairs? Once you start monitoring it, it is amazing how much stratification happens in a house when the circulation fan doesnt circulate enough. Answer for that? Have a return air duct in each room, keep the door closed, and get a baby monitor, so the nervous mother can watch them on video, until they move out at 35.

I thought we should start a favourite usage for the Alexa controls, games, information, and other things, that can come up, to share between users. Our Echo sat for about a month, without much usage, except for my OCD usage. Now both of us use it for many things, HA being the main one, but so many outside HA usages are popping up each week. We love the shopping list! No more looking for a pencil or pen that won;t write uphill on the fridge list. No more fridge list paper hanging there. No more forgetting to write it down, as it was a hassle and we procrastinate.. No more surprise shopping and the list is still at home. The suffix "to my shopping list" is assumed and optional. Native and no skill required. Shows up in your Alexa app on both out cell phones and shared deletions works in 1-2 seconds. Alexa....add onions! ....OK, I have added onions to your shopping list. Alexa...add magazine at Walmart! ....OK, I have added magazine at Walmart to your shopping list. Alexa...What is on our shopping list? ....Your shopping list has xxxx, yyyy, zzzz,...

Like Stu said above, You call Alexa....and all that hear you, wake up and light up. Then all but one goes dark again, when they decide between themselves who hears you the best. You can set some individual personality for each also, as I found out this morning. Whe asked the time it told me the time for PDT, not EDT. On inspection, turns out the default address in Cali. was still installed. All on the same account.

It might be that, Michel just gets tired of listening to all the voice recordings and typing that fast, sometimes late at nights! @Michel. It's not nice to spit food on your keyboard!

Have you tried LED bulbs to cut down on your power usage?

Thinking again it does make sense In the former case. "Turn" and "On" are split into two distinct places in the sentence. In the latter, "turn On" is one phrase with more syllables that may be easier to recognise. If "turn" is just a useless word, we have just injected, at a random place in the sentence, a useless word, that needs to be parsed so it can just be ignored.

I had some problems with tha in the beginning but I switched my syntax to Alexa. Turn Off Christmas tree lights. I found the On/Off before the device name, much more reliable. I think it would be esaier for a vocal parser to grasp.

Mine does that occasionally. Alexa integration has just gone through some bugs, that have just been fixed, as well. See the other recent thread.

Was a bug and now fixed!

Go to the very bottom of the list and use the button to forget everything. Then Discover again,

If ISY can't determine the type this usually means it can't communicate with it properly

My Echo and two Dots always seem to reconnect just fine without any intervention from me. Maybe they updated your firmware and it needed a better reboot. One of mine updated a week ago.

Apparently it gets stopped by any other Insteon signal processing and without a completely quiet environment isn't that useful. Varying count results are normal.

Right click on the device in the admin console device tree. select restore and try again. It would seem you have lost some links in your PLM or devices. How old is your PLM?

I pounded Alexa many times with the weather from my small town with no answers, as it wasn't listed in the database. Then you go into the app and tell it you didn't get the response you wanted. Now my little town has weather avaiable. Amazon listens to you. .....hmmmmm...maybe too much?

You and your old celery jokes!