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I live on MSes. You have to decide whether you want real Home Automation or just more remote and local buttons.

I use ten Insteon motion detectors. If they are well placed... ....They know when you are sleeping. They know when you're awake.

History repeats itself. Now our kids live in network communes!

Yeah, some thinking goes into each vocal definition for smooth syntax. Alexa. Turn On bedtime lights Alexa. Turn On bedtime sequence Alexa. Turn bedtime lights on. I tried all kinds of xxxx mood and xxxx lights but it confused the search engine with so many similar names so I reduced all lighting items to xxxxx lights now and it hardly ever asks for what device? anymore. The first word in the vocal seems to be the only word used, or it has the most weight in the search engine.

The vocal syntax is somewhat restrictive though. Alexa. Turn On XXXXX Alexa Turn On XXXXX to 40% Alexa. Turn Off XXXXX Alexa Open XXXXX Alexa Close XXXXX. Where XXXX is a Program (Then/else), a Scene(On/Off), a device (On/Off/%), and now a state variable (definable On/Off/%) The syntax can also be turned around but some have more trouble with that. Alexa. Turn XXXX On Alexa. XXXX On

We're just a scene of guys shootin' the breeze. Defintion: A bunch of old Rolling Stone scenies.

My two year old grandson, that can barely talk at all, know how to unplug his iPad, turn it on, scroll the screen to the YouTube app, search for his Paw patrol videos and select which one he wants to watch. Parents have not instilled enough drive, yet, to plug it back in each night to charge it up though. It's just unbelieveable what is coming on computer equipment now but until he learns more words and to type he won't be able to browse porn, or hack the passwords to allow him to order toys online. hmmmmmmm... The future will definitely present some new problems for parents. God help the parents that are not tech-savvy.

There must be a female that supplies voices for Alexa. Computer voices don't do slightly flat musical and raspy sounding notes.. I hope she is getting paid well. Alexa. Sing a Christmas song! Alexa. Sing Jingle Bells Alexa. Sing Deck the Halls. Alexa. Sing another Christmas song.

Polyglot has a Hue driver that keeps current status from the Hue hub.

Back on the Echo / Dot My 6 year year old granddaughter is disapointed, when we vist, and Alexa doesn't come with us. Her father pointed out that her Siri will do the same thing, but she just isn't that interested. I mean, iPads are only for youtube cartoons and stuff. right? In comes the $49 Dot deal! Well she is getting one for Christmas and the lack of a Prime membership can be a blessing. She can't order stuff that will show up at the door with a credit card bill, and her favourite songs will only play a 30-45 second sample, over and over again. What did the fox say?.....OMG! Another of her favourites is to add 100 boxes of chocolate chip cookies to the shopping list and then ask what is on the shopping list to hear it back. We always laugh when it isn't our list or it obvious when we go shopping and see it, and it is obviously a mistake from a child. OTOH the Alexa technology is great for school kids to check their math homework and other factula information. My middle son, being the smartbutt he is, jumped in and asked how many teaspoons in a cubic yard. Alexa got it right. Shopping list. A few days ago shopping we found "Foot Cream" on the shopping list. Quizing my wife she had no idea either. late I realised she was looking for "Thick Cream" and Alexa misunderstood. Dang grammar based spell correctors!

Trash 80....eeewww, I remember setting up a filing system for a guy on his using the cassette tape drive as storage. The "cloud" was the mess of recording tape inside a cassette gone bad by stopping fast too many times and the tape balled up inside. I also remember Tandy was the largest home computer company one year, and then the bottom feeder the next year, due to their "end to end, total control" policy. The market presented alternative options to their 67 Watt power supply that couldn't run a harddrive.

Yeah, The term "scene" has always been somewhat of a problem. "Scene" is usually only an Insteon thing previously in this forum but with so many definitions from different cultures of people's backgrounds it willbecome more of a problem and require adjective clarifiers to get meanings across. Thanks for the confirmation. Your description in your OP was very clear, anyway.

Apparently not many of us have any idea what you are asking for. It sure doesn't seem to the same as the OP was asking since the topic has rolled a few times. It has to be the male shopping perfomance pressure at Festivus season

Did you try one incandescent mixed in with a batch of Festivus C7 bulbs? If it works you might have to do the green, red, white pattern in true Festivus style. Or dip the one incandescent in some thinned paint like the manufacturers do. I always thought those huge C7 bulbs were the push in sockets like the ?5 and ?6 bulbs.

Thanks. Unfortunately the Skill won't connect to the ISY portal for me now.

Huh? No! I think I have seen this asked for previously (maybe you), as well as the OP, but I just don't understand the usage or the significance of what you are asking for, and feel I am probably not uderstanding what you want to do. Since it sounds familiar I wonder what feature I would be missing without it. I posted an example of function in an attempt to see if I have it correct, since no further explanations were forthcoming, that's all.

OK. (pulling teeth here ) So we have a scene with three devices preset, in the scene, to Device1 = 75% Device2 = 50% Device3 = 60% And you then want to be able to set a scene on at 50% resulting in Device1 = 37.5% Device2 = 25% Device3 = 30% Have I got it right now?

I guess I may not be clear on what is the desired outcome here but.. The insteon protocol.... J/k Having posted (mine) the above, did you know you can set device levels in scenes, using ISY programs, provided you pre-set them before usage? It's just that is always seems to be hidden from users in the menus and you, or others, may not be aware of it. I had it pounded into my head by Xathros years ago, and I still can get caught, as I did in a thread back a month ago.

I keep running into that statement that you can hook an analogue device into those terminals. I have never followed it up though. I have not seen anything in software that can support the analogue levels. Can you elaborate somewhat on that technique if you have any knowledge/experience with it? Is it just a binary input, does it have a settable trigger point? Or is it full analogue = creating a full analogue output level parameter? Does ISY syupport it?

You just got hired to start a thread on the differences! I, and others, have no Zed-wave at all so much bad advice will be given out to those poor Zed-Wave noobies in the future, here.

I just experiment with various levels and set them as a local control or in programs so I know they are as low as they will go without dropping out or not illuminating in the first place. I have one ensuite bathroom SwicthLinc that I wrote a short program to intercept the dimming signal and force the lowest level I have predetermined to be stay on. I find the dimming rate too aggressive at the bottom end, with LEDs not being visually linear for dimming. They do very little at at the 100% down to about 40%, and then take off exponentially negative. This makes them harder to control at human desirable/useful dim levels.

As you stated....a scene is a group of predefined levels. You can create as many scenes as you would like with your devices. if you want to dim something, dim any device. Alexa. turn on chair lights to 15 percent. works just fine.

Nice! Thanks I don't know anything about the RPi header pins. So you basically just. Create an RC charge circuit using the photocell and small cap. Turn the pin into an output Short the cap to ground Turn the pin into an input Time the charging until the digital input flips high. Massage the count (if desired) Report the result to ISY

Nice!Can you list the hardware required to do this?

To elaborate more on Teken ' s comment, it is only an online software switch that UDI enables in your ISY. You pay and it just happens and you won't see any change unless you know what features you are looking for. sent from a really small mobile keyboard, so may be a short response.