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It's possible, if you didn't factory reset your SwitchLinc before linking to ISY, switch1 is full of links to devices you don't have. When this happens switch1 is retrying and retrying to get an ACK response from device(s) that will never respond, and the ISY drivers are waiting for the air to clear, before they can add their two cents worth on the Insteon network.

I didn't see you mention you invoke the scenes from the programs. The KPL LEDs only activate from scenes. EDit: Sorry...reread it "triggers a program that turns on the Run Program scene" Did you factory reset this KPL before linking it to your ISY?

Right click on any program in the program tree in admin console, at the bottom you should see a find/replace menu. Note you can search for programs, devices, and even raw text strings! Also to be noted is that you can edit your program in the middle of a search and keep on going.

Did you factory reset the ToggleLincs before linking them to ISY? If not, do a factory reset on one at a time, and then do a restore from ISY. Try again

How do you tell if your portal is working properly?

That is where the analogue value stuffed into an ISY variable would be an awesome feature. I think Alexa needs to go another round of technology. Things that don;t work. Alexa. Set an alarm for 15 minutes saying...'get to work" Alexa. Turn on the outside lights at 9 PM Alexa. Turn off the outside lights in 15 minutes Also I have found the hard way many time now the calendar events cannot be trusted. Alexa lies about the confirmed dates and times. My son identified that one. Watch the coloured LED ring on the top. It points at the direction it is listening to.

As aboveNo fractional degrees (for C), not required (very seldom have to adjust it), and don't trust the security (visitors like 6 YoA granddaughter). Thanks

Mine picks up the wake word from the TV and anywhere in the room.When I use the wake word, it turns on and then points at the TV, even if there is no sound, then while I talk it turns off sometimes. My guess is when I am above the open holes the arangement of holes and microphones hears an echo or something that makes it think I am somewhere else. Then it doesn't hear from that angle, when the selected microphone is turned on. The dots are sitting higher, more at mouth level, mostly. I sit right in front of my Echo, about 5 feet away, and yet the Dot across the room (about 20' away) will answer many times. If the TV sound is on the Echo is basically deaf to any voice. TV is not that loud but a very bassy speaker system.

Better you than me. Those things are frustrating. I never thought of it but a simple admin console search for the device would have found this fast. Glad you resolved it! Automate on, dude!

They have become unbelievably cheap now. My two Dots work much better than my Echo. Maybe location away from the TV and maybe the height is too low and I talk down to her. They don't usually like that and you don't get lucky, as often, with the responses you get.

Having read that I better check my device list to see if it has accumulated any garbage! I know I had to clear the list out once but I didn't think it was a usual problem. BTW: The "clear all" is at the bottom of the device list in the Alexa app. Dumb place to put an option at the bottom of hundreds of devices. *SIGH* I have been getting some duplicate complaints, lately again. Thanks for the reminder! EDIT: Yup, I had a few duplicates, Some marked (offline) and a few that had old versions of my device names. I know this causes Alexa confusion with it asking "I found several devices with that name". This should clear that up again. BTW: There is a sort by "name" at the top right of the list and you can see whay similar names you have installed to help troubleshoot this dup identification problem.

I kind of wondered and was going to mention that but busy running out the door to do chores in my garage which I have been avoiding. Now it is starting to snow and my snowblower will be stuck behind a tonne of stuff...LOL Gotta' love forums with the confusions of wording and meanings. LOL

That could be managed with programs name correctly to change heating/cooling also. I just don't have a need for it and don't want to risk the security problem having my thermostat changed by guests or grandchildren.

You win! I have never used Alexa with my thermostats. My ISY adjusts them automatically (with draught compensations based on house windchill) with deviations from my programmed schedule and I only have to make a manual adjustment about twice per year. I am also using Celsius temperatures and Echo cannot handle fractions or decimals so it's is kind of useless for me with full degree jumps. Keep trying and best of luck. You will get there.

I doubt that is supported from the Alexa skill. IIRC this was discussed in a former thread. A good request for features to UDI would be have the skill able to set a variable. Then people could detect the change in any ISY program and do whatever they wanted with it. A solution for all devices and applications.

Are to trying to vocal control a program or directly to the device? I doubt the Echo interface supports analogues other than light levels. The direct temperatures I have used successfully were only other skills that connect direct to the manufacturer's cloud support, not the ISY skill. Try a simple higher or lower program. If you are using v5.0.x you can read the setpoint into a variable, increment it and write it back. My inc/decrement temperature ISY functions have never worked for my two 2441ZTH units. Actually no ISY functions work for my newer unit.

Nice! Oh look, first typo I have ever seen from Michel! He isn't a bot!

Can you set the temperature from ISY in a program?

Imagine the topic had raised concerns about problems with basement dwelling in Iowa and Florida or you could just respond to the OP and not increase the off-topic post count more.

You must have a really old ISY model then.... Just kidding. Apologies. I was confused with Rpi. I plugged my ISY in about three years ago and have only seen it a few times, since. Yes the ISY uses a small barrel / coax connector of some sort. I didn't want to interrupt it to look.

Can't help there. I only run about 80 vocals. I was running many more with multiple vocals for each device but that was confusing Alexa, asking for clarification all the time. It was getting annoying. You mentioned "If you delete all". There may be a time limit safety on so many devices at once. Did you try discover multiple times in sequence? Stu may have larger quantities.

Please post example photos of soldering the wires to the microUSB connector.

Maybe try it with the ecobee3 skill disabled? Perhaps the ecobee3 will not allow that many connections at one time.

Fire, smoke, bronchitis, CO2, Radon gas, SADS, illegal Florida? Basements? Underwater? LMAO!!!

I only buy alkaline batteries and they **were** (years back) leakproof, mostly but they are making them cheaper and I have had a few, leak slightly, over the years. Thanks.