larryllix

Doing the Off timer in ISY allows you to change the time delay. In the middle of the night you may not want you tripp to the toilet to leave the light on for 15 minutes, but during the day you may not want it to keep going off while you sitting motionless on the throne.

If the Off is enabled it is sending an Off everytime it cycles also. It is a lot easier to handle if it only ends an On, everytime it see motion. If you have a long time timer, you should be able to use the conserve function.

The timer is when the Off will be sent. The motion detection blanking is a separate and not user settable timer. IIRC it is about 2 minutes specified in the manual. The two timers are not related.

Another reason not to go to the "dark side" and stay with Insteon, real HA

Been there done that.I just logged into admin console , as per normal and you have to wait for a long time to get your slice of the CPU action. Right click on the offending program and select stop. You should see the icon changing colour back and forth like Christmas lights.

You need a combination of logic. You can use the light detection of an MS, the real time and motion sensing to determine fairly accurately if it is morning and you are rising. In the old days, of my X10 history, I used a 500W halogen to wake me up on work days, with long weekend exceptions, in the schedule. There was always that day that I phoned in sick, or Easter, which has such a complex formula, it couldn't be calculated. On that/those days I had a mini-keypad that would just cancel the whole sequence. Otherwise, if I didn't get out of bed at X time, the halogen would start flashing too. It can be done with MSes but other logic is needed and that is all in the ISY box.

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?