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That usually indicates communication signal problems. Are some HID lamps?

I beleieve I followed the process laid out in the ISY wiki and it wasn't too bad excpet for the "what account are they referring to' in many places. When multiple accounts and places are involved every mention of an account has to be specified in complete detail. Yeah, typists lament.

Not ISY related! My wife tried this four times and I tried several additional times, also. Alexa confirms the date interim as Nov. 11th, when it asks time, or other clarification, but when you say 11:00 AM it confirms with November 4th, every time. Wife called me over and demonstrated this several times more, and then I tried it myself. Sometimes it confirms the date November 11th, when it asks for more information and yet everytime it finalises with ..."OK , you have an event on Friday November 4th, at 11:00 in the morning called Test Appointment. Right?" Try it and you can always say "No' upon the final confirmation. We have had suspected wrong appointments from Alexa, before, but never one we could repeatedly observe making a mistake.

Big task to take on. What is an ISY Portal? What is an Amazon Alexa account? I use the supplied app as the only way I know to make adjustments to the Alexa setup. The acount allows me to download the app if I am located in the right goegraphic location. Not to be be nasty but people familiar with a process usually have a hard time explaining things to newbies, that seem so obvious to them, once they have done them. Big job.

Have you tested your lights via manual control from the ISY admin console?

So you just remembered what version was on it previously but there is no notification. I thought maybe I had missed something ....again. [emoji3]

How are you aware of a firmware update?

Yeah. I am expecting an answer back within 48 hours effective over a week ago.

It can be done ok but you have to be partially insane or very meticulous in every move you make. If you ever do a Restore in ISY, all hub links are gone.

Many threads are full of sample programs using variables. There are too many uses to describe. The best is to read other people's code and see the examples.

Yeah. And my math was bad too. That's a six month penalty for experimenting. I wonder why amazon would be so stiff on the penalty. Even 30 days would be a deterent to not abuse their servers. Did you just call them by phone or email support or how did you plead the insanity case?

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.