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My motion sensor (ISY Portal variable pseudo MSes) routines stopped working a few weeks ago. I notified amazon support describing the testing was good to their device status in the app, and how the routine worked fine when tested from the app. I got back a nonsense response about how they need to test these devices right from the ISY program blah, blah, blah. It seems after weeks of my routines not working, somebody reset something, and my routines suddenly started working again, but amazon support would not admit that. Feedback was mixed thanking them for resetting the routine programs but telling them to actually read what I posted instead of wasting everybody's time.

Installed, powered up without any snags or delay, and running fine. Installed polyglot v2.2.5 with beta selected. v2.2.6 not offered. Thanks!!

I thought it had to be totally nonfunctional and show eons of thinking to make WAF. Sent using Tapatalk

Slap! She gets peace of mind and... You get a piece of her mind too. Sent using Tapatalk

The first I have ever heard of the iR feature was in a LIFX advert about 1 month ago. Interesting idea! Not much of a security thing though as the kids know iR shows up in any cam sensor. I had some BR-30 Hue bulbs, but my fixtures take BR40 that overheat the bulbs in an insulated ceiling. For those that think LEDs don't get hot, I burnt my hand on an LED bulb two years ago after it started blinking on and off. Face was cool and I removed it, only to find the sides extremely hot froma fixture with no air circulation. Yeah I was standing on a ladder and made the call to not drop and smash it. I have my decks, porches (1/2 house) populated with RGBWW bulbs in potlight fixtures. I am going to do a lot less Christmas lighting this year, outside. The LED lights strings have become the worst reliability of any type of Christmas lighting for me. Green strings seem to last just over ne season. I have fixed sockets repeatedly but the trick is nothing is compatible with other or even their own brands from year to year so they end up being garbage. I have a few strings with taped off ends in order to salvage half the string lengths. My light animator hasn't been bothered wit for a few years now. I am sure it was annoying the neighbourhood but I ISYed it for only select times. With an extension cord end repair from a mouse eating off the receptacle under the snow last year, I am slowly giving up, and don't want to spend the full week of wiring and running cords, using 100-200 tie warps. One time usage plastics? At least these are guaranteed to be turtle-nose proof!

There are two different effects here. Using multiple colours in a chandelier is about the looks of the bulbs. Like a Christmas tree it doesn't colour the room lighting. Using colours individually, where they shine on a wall or other opaque object is a different effect. You see the coloured light effect in the room. If your bulbs are not close to a wall, you will not notice the coloured lighting effect (just see coloured bulbs) unless you have all your lights the same colour. Coloured bulbs in a ceiling pot fixture are mostly a waste of money. Their light isn't bright enough to light up the floor and the bulb cannot be seen either. Of course I have ten foot high ceilings.

My impression is there are no upgrades. The 8 group unit is the small RGBWW lamp some sell. It doubles as a cute RGBWW lamp, which may work out for a desk lamp or a couple on top of a bar.

No. You are correct. You can have four "groups" with as many bulbs are desired in each group. From the ebay listings, it appears the newer "lamp style" hubs may be able to handle 8 groups. That would definitely help but they require more space than the flat hubs I have. They still require a microUSB from the looks of them. The MiLight protocol is very fast using UDP packets. Animations, like flame flickering, is much easier with them.

I guess they didn't expected anybody to spend over $3000 on light bulbs. They must be running into a memory or number of addressing bit max in the protocol. Geesh...MiLights had a much better light quality, colour depth, and brightness, but I have a box full of them too because they took a new hub every four bulbs. If MiLight ever developed a hub to service a dozen or more bulbs I would go back to them. My Hue bulbs didn't support the update for the 100% power on problem.

I have a junk box full of Hue bulbs now,and the only reason they lasted the few years they did was they cost me over $300, which was way too much to totally waste. Basically the bulbs were garbage from day 1, with no green capability and blaring 100% in the middle of the night with every power blink. The Iris unit had nice colours but the light output was about 2W equiv. or less. I was impressed with the Hue protocol. Very easy and clean.

Maybe they are not http protocol. OTOH I have has http devices that just give up too easily. I have 25 RGBWW bulbs that have never had to be power cycled yet. Of course I bought the quality units at about $8 each. Sent using Tapatalk

Very ironic the people interested in a user programmable box with so many options can shy away from a change for the better that could cause them to actually look at their programs for flags indicating some attention may be due. To each his own l, I guess, but keeping their Insteon hub comes to mind. I guess behind the closed door thing is scary but very few that open that door ever go back. I blame UDI for using the beta label while I have had tape measures with more bugs in them. Sent using Tapatalk

What new devices have you added that aren't supported?

NO, and I think that is the law. People shouldn't be out in the wet on a metal ladder changing a live lampbulb. Some will argue that the breaker can be used but I think convenient comes into out code rules also. IIRC, I wired mine into a hard switch next to the SwitchLinc that controls the ISY logic. In both cases the switch was barely doing anything else.

No. I have a few MSs that trigger 5 and 6 programs. One trigger can cause as many event as you can have programs. Processing order cannot be predicted though.

Http keeps trying

Surge protectors do NOT protect against surges by definition. They are spike protectors, protecting against high voltage spikes, (usually more than 250vdc or 180vac) only. Only very complex (usually UPS) circuitry can protect against surges and voltage dips. A high voltage surge of say 150vac for 10 seconds would not even trigger these "surge suppressors" Some where along the line the term became popular and the manufacturers have adopted the misuse of the term.

I ran some MagicHouse lamps off an SwitchLinc dimmer for some time and later changed over to Bumbershoots method, bypassing the SwitchLinc and capping the red wire. One disadvantage is when the WiFi bulbs are powered up they can take a random length of time to reconnect to the router, get their assigned IP address and be available to control from ISY. This may require some Waits in your programming that may make your lighting starts look badly. Keeping them powered up should not only keep them connected and ready via WiFi, but keep the electronics dry outside.

"front panel"? I only have three LEDs. Are you considering the port plugs as "front"? That sounds really odd. USB 3 usually is backward compatible. Ouch!

I think Notepad adds extra EoLs but Notepad++ doesn't. I use FileZilla to port python3 code back and forth without problems. Excel also adds extra EoL codes, and python file reads find double empty lines after editing with Excel.

Very strange! Then it isn't going to be a polite uninstall. I wonder if a raw polyglot install is available? Lucky you! Need the profile file to poke out the loads that don't exist.

As per Mecheng70, above. Turn off all your firewall and virus scanner stuff. Many don't like java at all.

A three minute training video with vi would bring almost any user up to the level of nano basics. It isn't very complex for basic usage. I am not sure if the 50K file port installation was just to compile nano for FreeBSD usage or would be continually needed for a support package after compilation.

I found on my RPi Polyglot when I "stopped" my ecobee NS it indicated stopped but the PolyGlot log continued to fly by as if it was still polling the ecobee server. Since I was shutting it down, I used Bumbershoot's supplied command line to disable it anyway. Perhaps some of the polyglot shut down code is not functioning. It isn't usually a priority for code writers.

If nano takes the amount of resources using install methods found online, (port installation was mega filenames and thousands of added directories) I can stick with vi. After getting past some crazy responses to the delete key and more research on the insert mode on/off, I think I could get to like it. It does seem more powerful than nano with it's macro sequences capabilities....just like real unix systems . IIRC it is the VIM editor from years back, unix systems, polished up. I guess this will take a DB9 to RJ45 adapter for PLM connection. No interest in connecting serial signals, myself. Computers don't even come with them anymore. Ethernet is the new serial port.