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The Tags are much easier and cheaper to set up and have native charting provided for them and the CAO Reed Tag takes a 1-wire sensor to accommodate the possible heat with the Tag mounted in a cooler space. Just fasten a DS18B20 to a truss or "...beam me up Scotty!" Ohhh you thought I was talking to you? OP walks away shaking his head, never to come back again...

If it never gets that hot in a person's attic, why did you spend the money to install an attic fan? also Attics shouldn't get hot enough to destroy electronics after a properly running attic ventilator is functioning. What happens when it fails? Do we now replace both? You can't make a claim that attics never get hot enough to ruin electronics based on your own attic with a ventilation fan running for a reason.

It would be much easier to us the double tap up and down to control the other light. To achieve #2 you would double tap up and then down. To achieve #4 ...you wouldn't. Tapping up to turn lights off would break the normal habits and confuse people, lowering the WAF. But, as a logic problem.... Create four scenes...one for each scenario...on/on...on/off...off/on...off/off Create four programs, one to operate each scenario..each with a trigger for a state variable = 0, 1, 2, 3. You may require a Wait 1 second for the On turns it Off programs. Then use a program like this to rotate the state variable through all possible values. If ....SwitchLinc is switched On ...AND ...$sVariable < 3 Then ...$sVariable += 1 Else ...$sVariable = 0

Very strange. Let's satisfy both arguments with a DS18B20 1-wire sensor into the provided input on the bottom of the CAO Reed Tag see post #5. There is a reason the OP and you have installed a ventilation fan in your attic. There is also a reason some placed electronics in their cooled attic space to monitor it. BTW: your momma looked OK to me.

I hope you realise that ISY is an event triggered processing engine. You do not need to constantly cycle through testing the temperature. Every time the temperature reading changes, your program will be invoked, triggered and the appropriate Then or Else run, by itself.

Factory reset your IOLink and then restore it from ISY admin console.

Was that the last temperature recorded? I had three of these 120 vac, 2200 cfm attic fans burn out in the heat in my past home. They overheat up there. You must be using the "other" sun. Maybe you can keep the sensor close to the incoming air and get lower readings.

Alexa! Turn off All Lights!

Welcome to the VOCD** group! ** Vocal Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

I don't know Gary. I tried to make everything work here. My wife said, "I'm retired. You go get a job, instead!' but.... the latest WAF is "Alexa. Turn on the Christmas Tree"

Yeah the logic can get very complex and you can actually lose strands of hair on your head. I have some logic I stumble on every time I read it again but I know it works and I have worked it out with paper logic, but still it looks wrong. The triggers can stretch the strict boolean algebra also with their double purpose, conditional and trigger, from the same statement. oberkc's logic was my first thought also, but I was just lucky with a sudden idea. I'll brag once you prove it valid, but if it doesn't work...I was never here!

You'll like it. It obsoletes wall panel touch screens, mini-remotes, and many other remote inputs for most applications, except where you have a room full of people talking and you want to demostrate. It will make an *** out you every time with a room full of chatty people and it's severe ADHD.

You should be able to combine the conditions into one program...I think. As long as you use time frames. Other event triggers are never true unless they are the centre of attention, so will not work with AND. If ...from sunset -30 minutes ...to sunrise next day (thanks Stu) AND ...from 5:00 PM ...to sunrise next day then ...turn lights on ...wait 12 hours ... run else below else ... turn the lights Off

Make sure you have factory reset the beast before anything to do with ISY linking. Factory. You will have to have it close to a dual band Insteon device and in the linking mode. Then take it out if linking mode when done. Make sure you reboot admin console as it can time out with no indication except no updates for anything, without any warning.

In conjunction with Paul's comments above... That is what scenes are for. This is how it was done before ISY intelligence came along. Each Insteon device can hold about 250 different scenes. I have a scene that contains all my lights as well as my back doorbell. For an alarm almost every light in my house, and wrap around desks, flashes on and off as well as 4 beepers and my back doorbell. Simple....just turn scene On Wait 2 seconds, turn scene off. I have two other scenes, one for all upstairs and one for all downstairs. If they ever get messed up...just right click the device and select Restore. ISY reigns supreme again.

I totally support Scott's CAO Tag idea. They are awesome! They do their own thing and yet stuff variables into ISY with temperature resolution down to 0.001 degree. Humidity is standard and motion/position on most, but Light sensors are available = ALS. but..... you will need the Reed unit for an attic, with remote probe. The regular and Pro units have a range up up to 185 degrees F, while the Reed with probe will tolerate 256 degrees F. The sold probe is a standard 1-Wire probe available on ebay for $0.99. Your attic will most likely fry the regular Tags.. As an example I put a common remote for a wireless thermometer outside on my deck in the snow and a dark painted block of styrofoam, with a clear Pyrex baking dish over it. It went up to just over freezing that day. When I got home the thermometer was registering no connection. I went outside in the snow to see what was wrong and the snesor plastic case had melted and ruined the electronics. I have an out building with the south side roof slope covered in double wall poly/acrylic plastic. Underneath I have dark painted metal sheets with snake formed 3/8" tubing. When the sun shines the water comes out as steam if I don't pump it fast enough. It can be dangerous with boiling water = steam blowing pipes apart. Caution with the heat. IMHO you will need a passive probe and electronics out of the attic space.

I have two Insteon wireless thermostats that I only use for probes. I have two Venstar T7900 stats that control some parts of my heating system. The Venstar have a schedule built into them with adaptive intelligent recovery which I do not use as I find stat logic too stupid. I use ISY to perform adaptive intelligent recovery as well as adaptive intelligent setback so that the house is cool enough to sleep on the milder nights. I haven't found a stat that can do that natively, yet. This us based on the current outside temperature and wind speed influence on the house's temperature change speed. If the ISY algorithms fail the later stat programming does it anyway. These are read and controlled by NodeLink on a RPI.

Two taps gets the MS back to normal mode.

The link was for an On/Off module. My comment was to compare the price and details with the Smarthome deal, and that in Canada it was not as good of a deal as aartech.ca single units. My closing comment may have confused the point. Here is the result in USD for the On/Off 4 pack deal. Multiply that by 138% for CDN ($243.23) and possibly add HST and then Bond fees for collection of it. Then you have to run to the post office to get it instead of being dropped at your door. With no warranty that's no deal.

As per Gary, above. Put each MS into linking mode and let the writing complete, one MS at a time.

If your MS is included in the scenes you are modifying, ISY will attempt to be write to your MS, every change, inorder to change the link information.

From my experience with HomeSeer II, if you are not a hacker type with no programming prowess, HS would stump you very quickly on these items.

You are showing in Canada. https://www.aartech.ca/2635-222-insteon-appliance-module.html This will be cheaper and faster for you, than SmartHome, even with a single unit purchase, and you will have a valid warranty that you will be able to get service with. The three pack dimmers at aartech.ca is a very good deal. They are excellent to deal with.

Strange!There is no mention of the discount on the item page and the Visa checkut never mentioned any discount for me. Nice one!

Vapourware!Link takes you to $139.99 at staples.com