larryllix

How can they be on different account but be on the same account? Who bought them isn't real vent for the logic.

Best Buy got the Dots in yesterday. The online deal was no deal at all.

What city did you declare?

I have found that Alexa only knows about a few major cities in Canada and nothing about provinces, so trying to hack in some other town is a waste of time anyway if Alexa has never heard of it. I have noticed that all people having success are in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and that is on of the few listed cities in Canada.

I am not familiar with this technique you are using. All Rest commands are GET. Try a hard coded number first to get it going, then the variable later.

Try the parameter outside the double quotation delimiters. ohhhhh. you can't set a scene to a dim level...just on or off.

Read the OP. This thread is from Alex about a hack to bypass the Amazon filters and get around this peoblem. Read the thread again.

You need to go into your control panel and the win firewall, plus the java console and tell them that ISY and it's IP are OK and not trying to hack out of your computer into the real world, or into you bank account. By the time win 15 comes out the virus problems will be solved by not allowing us to turn our computer on. It will only be for privileged super users that sign an affidavidt first.

Welcome to the forum! All battery devices must be in linking mode, enabled by holding the linking button down for about 5-6 seconds until the flashing LED is seen. This is to save battery life while sitting idle at other times. Make sure you factory reset all new Insteon devices beofre attempting to do anything with them in ISY. Out f my 11 about 5 of them did really nasty things that will drive you crazy seemingly impossible. Make sure you have set your dip switches for software programming and then you resostats inside mean nothing. Most of us use send ON only as the off consumes batteries faster and confuses your ISY programming. I don't use an access points with Insteon. I do, however have many dual band devices that repeat and strengthen my Insteon network.

Yeah. Hardwire a real thermostat into the system. At least as a high limit and another as a freeze prevention. Running a whole house heating system on toys can get you in trouble unless you live where it never freezes.

Mine work fairly well on Outback Inverters but ther distortion is down about 4-5% IIRC. Frequency is important and if your generator is not a synthesized crystal controlled frequency, the distortion probably won't matter anyway. Usually classified that a square wave, with a gap in the polarity reversal, is called modified sinewave. I doubt Insteon would run on that at all. It lacks a clear zero crossing time. A multi-stepped sqaure wave is called a true synewave. Usually filtering is used to attempt to smooth this out more, and lowers the distortion figures. An electromechanical generator usually produces the best sinewave but the frequency wanders but also some generator cores have slots in the lminations and produce nasty notches in the waveforms.

Good to hear but it sounds like you got my order. Same colour quantities and being shipped to NY state.

Look for the CAO weatherproof Tag also. As a sideline you will get temperature and humidity very accurately. Is the ZWave network your husband's that you allowed him to have so he doesn't feel left out?

I use a program from Alexa, I call sunset liyghts. In this program I set the perimeter lighting all to various shades of orange and red. The main lights in the ceiling are all white only. Over a period of an hour I dim all the white lights. In order to make white lights dim to finish about the same time I use a percentage for each dim period. This works very well. I do play the truncation factor in simple integer arithmetic also. If a bulb starts at 100% is becomes 90% If another bulb is already at 20% it becomes 18% These steps are barely visible to the human eye at any level. The same thing could be applied to the Echo but in larger steps, like log2. Just cut the level in half or double it each step. Stepping 9 or 10% at 100% level is hardly detectable, if at all while 9 or 10% at a 18% level will usually just turn most bulbs off completely.

ISY has made it very simple to factory reset devices when needed.Factory reset, put in linking mode, if battery device, click on restore in admin console....voila!

Sure enough but it gave me time to hide the girly magazines and replace her HeMan magazines, before she got home.

To be truthfull, I have never used one for motion yet. My long distance report is OutOfRange signal from the manager.I have the X, Y , and Z axis positions reporting to my ISY but have never done anything with them. They change when you move them but haven't spent time with them yet, only temps and humidity, so far. You can stick on inside your solid metal refrigerator or freezer and the signal is still strong from the other end of the house. When I first got them, I tried to walk to each end of my street, about 1000' each way and I could not lose signal inside an all brick house. I tried double metal cookie tins but I couldn't shield them enough to test the OutOfRange signal.

Verbal grocery list items. makes a list on both our cell phones. No more forgotten paper lists with ony half the stuff written down, on the fridge, while we are surprise shopping. Living 15 miles from the store in another town, this happens often. Doctor and chiro appointments. Goes directly into your google calendar and displayed on almost any calendar app you want. 6 year old granddaughter loves to have it play popular kids music over and over. Also answers math questions for kids to check their homework. Some geography. Knows what games are playing and the current scores, player stats etc.. It's a vocal dictionary and encyclopedia. Stuns guests when an argument breaks out and I settle it by asking Alexa...what is...?

I hope it works and you are not a lawyer.

Welcome to the forum!! Not that many women are OCD enough to get involved with HA, or not lazy enough? If you have some distance my best guess would be the RF signal is just too far away from the nearest dual-band device that is capable of converting the RF signal to the powerline signal. Another thought is that the MS is behind metal, sheilding it from that device mentioned above when it sends it's detection signal. Another thought to prove this would be to plug in a dual-band device (OnOffLinc or LampLinc) into an extension cord with a rainproof bucket over it, close to the bin pickup location, for trial. Ohh. another thought. CAO Tags are small, send motion, temp, humidity etc.. and aare about 1.25' square by 1/4" thick. I have one that reports in when my wife is within about 1.5 miles away, from the glove compartment. They run 25-40 each and the manager about $60 to handle all units. I have four and everybody here, usuing them is really impressed.

Thanks Stu. Changed program above. The ">=1%" OK now? I haven't ever used this technique myself. I use very few statii.

You could change the LED brightness to match the speed. LEDs take scenes for them though. PITA. I like to operate multi-level devices with variables. 0,1,2,3 = off,low,med,high That way other programs can operate the device also by just storing a number into the variable, no jumping into programs that get modified later and then magically don't work.

Backup up your own ISY Delete everything. (factory reset and reset a few parameters?) Install and link all your remote location devices. Backup your ISY to the carry-with-you backup file Restore your original file Take the carry-with-you file to the new location with all your linked devices. Restore at the remote site.

I don't know about normal behaviour as I never have used a three-way action with a scene. However you could use a follow up program something like this. If ... control nonLoadSwitch is switched 'On' AND ... status of LoadSwitch >= 1% Then ... set nonLoadSwitch to 100% <----you could create another scene for these two with 100% levels, if desired ... set loadSwitch to 100% Else ... -- EDIT:Minor change to level after Stu's sharp eyes pointing out 0% doesn't work.

In the admin console, access the device's page and set your brightness level to about 30% and the ramp rate to 2.0 seconds.