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There is no point in doing that. Just right click on each device and select Restore causing ISY to clean out and refresh all links in each device. It's the same as starting over and .... 'feels like the first time'

No suggestions. They don't have weather anywhere close to me either and I can't change my location to my area in Canada either

I discovered another snag. If you create a household, linking accounts for different room operation setups, you cannot create a new household for 180 days after cancelling the last household configuration. No more of that for me for 3 months after my experimental setup and test. EDIT: duh! 6 months.

You can use either type of variable but if you want to trigger programs from it in other programs you will eed to utilise a State variable type, as mentioned by blueman2 above.

That would take v5.xxx or a series of programs based on each temperature threshold or a NR that sends the current temperature to ISY (itself) for every change in temperature above say...-1C

Ask Alexa for the weather in your area, giving your best shot at identifying your exact location. If Alexa doesn't know what that weather is, I doubt you will ever get it to change to an area it hasn't heard of in it's database.

My Dot and Echo only have a few buttons and no screen to enter any account settings. I can only enter such things on a computer or mobile device. Do you have a keyboard on your Echo? It takes a device with an Alexa app to set up a Dot or Echo and that app has to be run on something like and Android or iOS device. It wouldn't matter how many Amazon accounts I have if I have nothing to link the Dots to the accounts with. My Alexa app won't do that. How do you log into, and setup an Echo, or Dot, without a mobile device app?

Again My app supports multiple devices but there is only one account per app and one app per mobile device

I don't understand how you can even have different accounts. I can only have one app on one device and all devices are linked to the only account I can attach to the app.

With American addresses the postal and address have to match. When you ask Alexa for the weather what area does she report?

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!