larryllix

I don't see any indication of the OP updating his UI to match his firmware and lots of confusion about it. Has this been done now?

No. The Universal Time Clock only knows and sends one time from Greenwich, to everybody. Your local computer has to provide your addition or subtraction of hours for your local time usage. I used the custom lat/long figures as the listed city was way out on times for sunset and sunrise.

I thought about that but the Then section is being used for the Switchlinc, that was the only trigger. But.... I got cheap on program usage and chickened out, keeping advancements centralised into one spot also. Good programming practice in most cases.

Really off topic but I though you may get a kick out of this one. I count the darks and subtract the lights with overlap so it always self-corrects. Programs can use as many counts as they want. Darker Detect - [ID 0045][Parent 0036] If ( 'Afternoon Bedroom / Motion.AftBR / Dark.AftBR' is switched On Or 'Evening Bedroom / Motion.EveBR / Dark.EveBR' is switched On Or 'Dining Room / Motion.DinRm / Dark.DinRm' is switched On Or 'Library / Motion.Libr / Dark.Libr' is switched On Or 'Lower Landing / Motion.LLand / Dark.LLand' is switched On Or 'Master Bedroom / Motion.MBR / Dark.MBR' is switched On Or 'Mudroom / Motion.MudRm / Dark.MudRm' is switched On Or 'Rec Room / Motion.RecRm / Dark.RecRm' is switched On Or 'Utility Room / Motion.Util / Dark.Util' is switched On Or 'Workshop / Motion.Shop / Dark.Shop' is switched On ) And $sHouse.darkCount <= 8 Then $sHouse.darkCount += 1 $sHouse.darkCount Init To $sHouse.darkCount Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')

I meant admin access to the router. This sounds like ISY didn't get the right IP address from the router DHCP. Trouble is your port forward in your router will be set for fixed IP and ISY may be suiting at a different one. How good a neighbour is s/he? Rebooting the router may fix it if you don't have access to the router. Call the Electrical Utility and ask them to power cycle your house. I had this happen where my free DDNS service cancelled me cause I didn't check in that month as a new policy while I was away. Finally I got my ISP to answer my email with my IP address, that had never changed. unfortunately you are looking at inside your LAN IP addresses.

Nasty one. Do you have access to your router, remotely?

That's the part that irritates me. The mechanisms are all there. ability to voice what the events are, when asked ability to notify you of alarms with tone sound bytes, unprompted ability to remember events dates and times. Very strange that such a basic feature would be missing in such a nice high-tech level gadget. @Alex. It surprises me that you wouldn't have changed Alexa to Echo or other name to avoid confusion. Maybe you are familiar with being ordered about?

I can't believe that the Echo has no function to notify you about appointments. Sure I can set a reminder with constant beeping. Sure I can create an event that I have to remember myself and ask about it. With all this awesome voice recognition and output where is the basic notification Larry, You have a Dentist appointment in one hour at 3 o'oclock! What am I missing? Is there a skill to cover this basic 1980's tech gadget?

Along with that I keep one variable $sISY.initialised as a Boolean. I set it True but init it to False Wen ISY boots up and copies the value (False) from init, I run a test of it and initialise some items then set it true again. This way I know the program lines will only be run on first power up. This also help control the order of boot up procedures. This idea was stolen from the Leak detection program repertoire.

The Internet time clocks only send UTC time. (Greenwich) Your local computer (ISY) calculates local time from that.

This is what the ecobee3 thermostats are claiming now with their remotes. Up to 32??? remotes can be connected wirelessly and the temperature settings follow you around by MS in each room you occupy. All sound great but I would go to bed hot, every night and not sleep for hours while my A/C brought the house down 1 degree per hour. I designed my house with a lower floor for the bedroom to keep it cooler but I feel sorry for the people with upstairs bedrooms in the heat. I had that in the last house I designed, but had return air vents in every room and kept doors shut to avoid temperature stratification.

You stated you were changing Masters, and I assume manually at the stats. My suggestion was to change setpoints on the Master based on 2441ZTH.

If program logic is acting as an intermediary for your HVAC controls it can be done with more ISY program logic. If the 2441TH is hardwired to the HVAC sources then not without some real screwball programming logic. When in the 2441ZTH zones you could change setpoints on the 244TH to compensate in an equivalent scheme.

Thanks! Interesting. I don't have any open/close devices so never encountered that speech psychology, yet. I run almost all programs so I did have to fudge one "All Lights Off" program to accommodate the negative voice logic "Off" to run the Then. "Alexa. Turn Off All Lights" If switchlinc is switched On etc... Then set lights Off set Hue lights off set MiLights off Else <------"Alexa. Turn Off" jumps in here. run Program self (Then) <-------added for voice input The rest of my voice connection programs are all Then actions only, and all just require Alexa. Turn On.....

How do you find program to be a little different? I find adding devices, programs, and scenes the exact same procedure, and the spoken techniques exactly the same also. Can you explain? Maybe I missed something in this abstract black box.

What are your firmware and UI versions?

Next try to manually initiate the same program your REST input would.

Does your "Status 'Open-Close / Shed-Opened" show 'On' in it's device status page?

I don't think Alexa knows the difference between scenes, programs and devices so you cannot overlap names at all. Only at some point in the portal to ISY is the scene, program, or device differentiated. Click "discover" in the setup app or say "Alexa. Discover"

It is quite ironic that the most automated things take so much manual effort, at first.Who reads the manual though?

Post one of your programs that is responsible and people can take a look at the logic.Right click on the program in the program tree and select "copy to clipboard"

Sounds like it fits the bill perfectly! So you can trigger the thing with a Network resource from ISY and have the power cycle to ISY, then? hmmmmmmm... trouble with that logic is if you can remotely cycle ISY or have ISY cycle itself then ISY and router, or just ISY, is functioning reliably enough to do it. I have to assume it can do this on other stimuli, also. The sequencing sounds good. I find the Echo doesn't sync up with my router and gives up.

Have you run test notifications to see if the messages are still being sent out, identifying whether the problem is in the programming or the email system?

Yeah and it's always a case of where do you mount the silly relay, get an expensive box and clamps, terminal block etc... It all adds up project wi$e. Never tried it but, ISY cyclic query an OnOff Module, used to control the device?

SynchroLinc detect and report loads over a certain programmable level. The trouble there is when the circuit is dead it can't report in but there should be ways to detect that if the turn on event is known and it doesn't confirm it. The usual way is a IOLinc and a 120vac relay to get a dry contact to feed the IOLinc.