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You can do that right at the switch by dimming it. It then remembers the On level next time you use On or you can tap it a second time to override that level. For automatic setting use the programs as above responders suggested. Welcome to ISY and the forum! Keep asking.

I had a problem like that with factory resetting my ISY. You may have changed your registered email address with UDI and you are now locked out sending help to the wrong email address. You would have to remember your old email address and password to get in, and then update both. or Contact support and have them completely reset your account to your new email address.

ANOTHER UPDATE: A TV program turned on Alexa tonight with the words "The legs are" (English accent). We backed the show up and repeated half a dozen times and Alexa responded every time with confusion. After that, I placed the Echo on top of the offending speakers and it works much better. I can talk to Alexa successfully with the TV on but needing a bit of a raised level of speech while deep TV show background music is playing, even a very low volume levels. It seems the Echo is very sensitive to bass frequencies and my TV speakers produce a lot of deep bass. Turning the bass tone down on the amp has helped slightly, also. More moving around and sound tailoring is coming, yet.

The app already displays every word that is spoken as it understands it, if you can get it's attention. When this happens badly, it doesn't understand it's own name to get it listening. Good idea though. This could help by getting it at the fringe reception zone and then experimenting.

I need to inhale more chemtrail so I can forget this whole thing. I have forgotten who started it now.

Doesn't Zwave "being instantaneous" only mean certain brands, that report updates, and then the cost of Zwave switches is higher than Insteon switches?

My Echo is on the top of a bookshelf type desk topper and a few feet from the ceiling. My first thought was talking up to it and also sound waves resonating between the cabinet top and the ceiling but I brought down to the desk surface and it is only slightly better.

They made you believe that.

Chem trail mind control is a co-ordinated effort between all governments of the world since jets fly over all countries, from all sources. It appears to be working as you have forgotten the leaked documents.

There is now an alexa skill for the ventstar T5xxx through T7xxx series thermostats. These can aslo be controlled by the ISY using Nodelink/Venstar. ISY programs can be aware of changes and make them. http://venstar.com/smart/alexa/ Not good for Celsius users. Echo can only understand whole integer temperature values, and cannot control modes, fan, or humidity, just basic temperature. It does work though and may be a good idea that voice controls can't change modes on the stats.

How did you know what mics are for what and where they are located? I will have to experiment further with my SANGUNG TV on and my Onkyo playing a different source. Maybe Samsung TV's produce some mind control sounds, for the government, co-ordinated with the chemtrails the jets put out and we just exposed it.

I can successfully give Alexa instructions from another room if I raise my voice about 50 feet away but if my TV is on almost no manner of yelling at about 2 feet away will get a response. I have found that the Echo likes a deeper male voice and is very responsive at interpreting my voice over most noise However if my TV is on via some large tower speakers, even at a very low volume Alexa just turns a a deaf ear. I am beginning to wonder the Onkyo receiver generates some kind of noise that interferes with it. Perhaps my receiver is generating some sub-sonic noise that is saturating the microphone inputs? After setting it up and rehearsing a bunch of commands I attempted to demonstrate the thing to some guests and earned a bunch of Echo enemies in the process. I could see them shaking their heads and saying "what a waste of money" where Alexa wouldn't even take the most basic of commands spoken to her from 2 feet away. I pulled her down from the top of the desk cabinet and put her on the desk for a talk-downto position with a slightly better response but what an embarrassment. Anybody else found a dramatic change in response like this?

Mine seems a little early also but if you check online sources you will find 9:00 for GTA is correct by most sources. EDIT: I see you are not in Toronto. If you use the correct Lat/Long for OS you will get 9:12 PM

You will need a common "C" wire for any smart thermostat. The Nest stat and some others advertise that you don't need a "C" wire, and can use it without one, but the battery (or carry-over capacitor) in it goes dead if your A/C or heat is on too long, each cycle. Both my sons using a Nest experienced this, and had to run a new cable to get power to their stats in the middle of the winter when long furnace run cycles are experienced. Another item with Wi-Fi stats, is they generate electronics heat inside, and the sensing has compensation to make it read the correct temperature. If any draughts from the back hole or room breezes are experienced the sensor cools down and the room temperature may vary all over the place. It's the nature of the beast that didn't happen with lower energy or mechanical thermostats.

This could be done with the internal ISY logging facility via the notification technique also. There is a thread on this back a few months ago with mwareman, myself, and others. Here you go: http://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/7269-logging-variables/page-1

I have a lot of MiLights and Hue bulbs mixed into my Gathering Room Insteon lighting so I found I could not used my scenes with Alexa. After adding in spokens, for all my main SwitchLinc method programs, I found my scenes useless and removed them from Alexa control. If you only have Insteon (and possibly Zwave), the Scene method is probably best. My programs just operate the scenes plus Network Resources for the non-ISY-native lighting. However, I do have a range of program for differing lighting levels that can be Alexa operated, same as from the SwitchLinc so I don't use the percent factor. I find the spoken commands for level clumsy.

Ouch! Keep reading here and asking questions. There is a lot of hidden nuances.

Maybe moved the dual band device that was echoing the rf only signals coming through the small exit places between all the metal?

I have four of these Leak sensors. The two newer units are tap length sensitive. IIRC a long tap sends Wet On, Dry off, and a short tap sends Wet Off, Dry On. or maybe verse visa? This caused me a lot of confusion when testing.

Trouble with these complex systems, and my home has five zones using these stats, is that when you have a problem, the "pros" come in, have no idea what to do, do not understand the system, and just offer to rip it out and put in a system they understand and can work with. http://tekmarcontrols.com/images/_literature/546_d_06.pdf I am a logic control system guy and love this stuff but.... Two of my stats have about 500 settings in each one that most people have never heard of and can't begin to know how to set them. With that in mind, I was trying to replace my main stat with something more simple for the WAF, and remote control and HA but simpler is just that, no features that you become dependent on. Each winter and summer I change my stats to a custom setback schedule to suit the profile of the season for best HVAC. Removing a simple feature like shared schedules means I not only have to go around and change every schedule in five stats, I have to reprogramme them twice per year and document the schedule I determined from last year. How about schedule profiles? I have not only vacations and home profiles, I have several home profiles. I keep remote bedrooms on much lower temperature settings, when guests are not present. With that profile, the bedroom zones are on vacation settings, while "main" zones are running normal schedules. With a flick of a setting, "Guest" profile is entered, and suddenly remote bedrooms are in sync with the main part of the house, following their custom temperature settings for morning, day, evening, and sleep times. Without stats that talk to each other most of this isn't possible. I could give this up and get five smart thermostats and dedicate an ISY or some other logic control box to the job. It would be much cheaper than the $1200 thermostat I am using. Do I have the energy to do it? Not any more or the foolishness to attempt it.

Yeah, it's a little different need for heating large thermal mass radiators. You can't run a "bang-bang" thermostat technique or you can expect to overshoot your setpoint by 5-10 degrees for about 24 hours. EDIT: mind you the analogue portion can be done between the zone handler and the mixer too on some systems. This one makes some claims about benefits of each zone reporting graduated needs but never discloses what it actually does. @Stu: When I ask for a little cool I just get my favourite music.

That would be no different or more trouble than any X10 system, but there is also blockers for x10 signals at entrance panels. The x10 pseudo technique was only to satisfy the Echo/ISY connection. Perhaps there is another way to make the devices available to the local Echo for easy access. Once UDI implements some type of psuedo device, with a name, this may all change the ease of implementation.

I would think it would be easier/better to control just one ISY and set up a communications channel/protocol between ISY's. A few variables in each ISY and Network modules in each ISY could set up a code protocol for each command and a handshake variable back to indicate communication successful. An operator, operand and back handshake variable for each direction should be enough. The Echo end ISY/Master may need some pseudo X10 modules set up to duplicate devices in the remote. Once the small programs and Network resources are written for each to operate the opposite ends it should be fairly easy.

In the case if just between polyglot and ISY I am back to a selection of say two or three different speeds of heartbeat with an expanded exponential clicks. Say 15 seconds for OCD uses, 60 seconds, and 300 seconds. Personally I would use the 15 seconds and allow a few to slide before reporting. IOW I may discount some ISY logic triggers on one miss but not nuisance report until 10 heartbeats missed.

I think the heartbeat period needs to be set by the urgency of a failure. Leak detectors are typically 24 hours and IMHO that is too long for a device with that importance. My best gues for a leak detector woud be more like a few hours but that would shorten battery life for battery devices, also. The chance of an actual leak should be low so risk of a non-detected failure is low. Thermostats should have shorter times for heartbeat detection as some heating algorithms could run amuck before failure detection remedies need to be taken. IOW. Heartbeat time period should be based on the risk involved and the urgency of detection. Since these will vary from user to user and application to application, IMHO a variable period should be available. Better yet, perhaps selections of two, short and long periods, so that users can decide, but only within the confines of the designer who has thought out the device more thoroughly than an inexperienced user. eg. Some new ISY user sets a leak to a 7 day heartbeat period to save battery life and has a leak on the second day or ISY has power failures each week and increases the risk of detection failure past the usefulness of the Leak Detector. As far a signal style an alternating beacon polarity show some intelligence from the sending end. It could potentially increase noise rejection looking for a predicted polarity True/False. Other than that most ISY detection programs couldn't care less. I am reminded of some electrical metering pulses where signal polarity is actually three state to eliminate intermittent electrical signals form causing random pulses. The exact same concept may not apply but a random confused Insteon (or other style) signal could be eliminated from faking the receiving logic. A last point is retransmitted heartbeats that change polarity are easier to bridge between mediums. eg: Ethernet to RS485 to Insteon to copper contact. ie: how do you convert on-on-on-on to contact closures? The ramping value heartbeat sound interesting and may present some other uses, such as "alive time".