larryllix

I got so frustrated with the poor reporting, I wrote a recorder that keeps a list of every lowBatt signal from my 10 MSes. Most of the time nothing is ever sent. Out of, probably 10, batteries I have replaced so far, I think I have had about 2-3 reports of dead batteries. The flashing LED on the MS is much more reliable. When it multiple flashes happen, after seeing motion, it is time to replace the battery, within the next month.

Don't use "status" from the dimmer electronics to trigger programs. Use "control" from the mechanical button. With "control" you are triggering on one of the six unique signals an Insteon button puts out. ON, Fast On, Brighten, Off, Fast Off, Dim. My gathering rom light programs have 8 different levels and scenes from one SwitchLinc dimmer.

If it was closing the usual cause is a spider making a nest in your beams.

Sounds like a signal bounce or repeat. Possibly your IO/Linc lost it's setup and is closing the contact twice.

$172? Wow! I bought mine for around $60-$80 CAD. That is way too high for this poor technology. Mine work perfectly for reporting, once the method of reporting is understood. The newer firmware unit is not controllable from ISY. They probably both work exactly as stated on the box, with an Insteon Hub.

If . . $OkToGo is $TRUE Then . . $OkToGo = $FALSE <----Then stops and Else runs. The rest will never see the light of day! . . Set Scene 'Back yard / Back Yard Lights - All' Off . . Wait 1 second . . Set Scene 'Games Room / Some slight logic problems there!

I just added an automatic reset and try again to my leak detectors low battery programs. I missed a heartbeat from one Leak detector and after checking the battery to be very fresh yet, changed my programs to still notify me, but start again, with a 23 hour Wait period and then start timing again. If I had a battery failure I would then get a nuisance notification every two days. Not too bad for a nuisance repeat cycle. If you are away there is not much you can do with a low battery anyway.

AC power is disconnected (white is removed from terminal) Your 7th zone looks like it may be disconnected also. Or wire is just stripped too long. Is the terminal screw and the wire tight?

I found the first order works sometimes but the second syntax always works unless I get my devices wrong.

Check the app and see what Alexa actually understood.

Make sure after any changes to use "Discover" again or it won't matter.

It only matters what voice recognition names you give it in the portal

hmmmmm... I think "thermostat" is a reserved word that would confuse alexa. IIRC it is what you call it in the my.isy.io.com setup that counts.

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.