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@firstone are you still out there?

Thank you @firstone. Here is the documentation in full for input select if anyone else is interested. For stream, “SLI 11”. SLI: name: input-selector aliases: ['source'] description: Input Selector Command values: '00': name: [video1, vcr, dvr, stb, dvr] description: sets VIDEO1, VCR/DVR, STB/DVR models: set1 '01': name: [video2, cbl, sat] description: sets VIDEO2, CBL/SAT models: set1 '02': name: [video3, game/tv, game, game1] description: sets VIDEO3, GAME/TV, GAME, GAME1 models: set1 '03': name: [video4, aux1] description: sets VIDEO4, AUX1(AUX) models: set1 '04': name: [video5, aux2, game2] description: sets VIDEO5, AUX2, GAME2 models: set1 '05': name: [video6, pc] description: sets VIDEO6, PC models: set1 '06': name: video7 description: sets VIDEO7 models: set1 '07': name: '07' description: Hidden1 EXTRA1 models: set1 08: name: 08 description: Hidden2 EXTRA2 models: set1 09: name: 09 description: Hidden3 EXTRA3 models: set1 '10': name: [dvd, bd, dvd] description: sets DVD, BD/DVD models: set1 '11': name: strm-box description: sets STRM BOX models: set1 '12': name: tv description: sets TV models: set1 '20': name: [tape-1, tv/tape] description: sets TAPE(1), TV/TAPE models: set1 '21': name: tape2 description: sets TAPE2 models: set1 '22': name: phono description: sets PHONO models: set1 '23': name: [cd, tv/cd] description: sets CD, TV/CD models: set1 '24': name: fm description: sets FM models: set1 '25': name: am description: sets AM models: set1 '26': name: tuner description: sets TUNER models: set1 '27': name: [music-server, p4s, dlna] description: sets MUSIC SERVER, P4S, DLNA models: set1 '28': name: [internet-radio, iradio-favorite] description: sets INTERNET RADIO, iRadio Favorite models: set1 '29': name: [usb, usb] description: sets USB/USB(Front) models: set1 2A: name: usb description: sets USB(Rear) models: set1 2B: name: [network, net] description: sets NETWORK, NET models: set1 2C: name: usb description: sets USB(toggle) models: set1 2D: name: aiplay description: sets Aiplay models: set1 2E: name: bluetooth description: sets Bluetooth models: set1 2F: name: usb-dac-in description: sets USB DAC In models: set2 '41': name: line description: sets LINE models: set2 '42': name: line2 description: sets LINE2 models: set2 '44': name: optical description: sets OPTICAL models: set2 '45': name: coaxial description: sets COAXIAL models: set2 '40': name: universal-port description: sets Universal PORT models: set1 '30': name: multi-ch description: sets MULTI CH models: set1 '31': name: xm description: sets XM models: set1 '32': name: sirius description: sets SIRIUS models: set1 '33': name: dab description: 'sets DAB ' models: set1 '55': name: hdmi-5 description: sets HDMI 5 models: set1 '56': name: hdmi-6 description: sets HDMI 6 models: set1 '57': name: hdmi-7 description: sets HDMI 7 models: set1 UP: name: up description: sets Selector Position Wrap-Around Up models: set1 DOWN: name: down description: sets Selector Position Wrap-Around Down models: set1 QSTN: name: query description: gets The Selector Position models: set1

I am using this node server for my Onkyo receiver and overall works pretty well. There are a multitude of Select Input options available but missing is a streaming device, such as an Apple TV. I see game_tv but on my receiver, I have both a game port and a streamer device port. @firstone Can I request the addition of streamer as an input select?

Hi @photogeek54. Yes, confirmed the node server is production. Will send you the api_key.

@bpwwer Greetings, our SolarEdge installation has 2 inverters, each with 1 battery attached. When I restart the node server, the log shows finding 2 inverters and 2 batteries, but there is only a single battery node with a node name of battery 1.5 and a single battery in the Polisy. Are the two batteries being consolidated? 2023-08-19 11:09:48,914 Thread-1 udi_interface INFO solaredge-poly:discover: Discovering SolarEdge sites and equipment... 2023-08-19 11:09:49,807 Thread-1 udi_interface INFO solaredge-poly:discover: Found 1 sites 2023-08-19 11:09:49,808 Thread-1 udi_interface INFO solaredge-poly:discover: Found Active site id: 1003126, name: Quackenbush1, TZ: Pacific/Honolulu 2023-08-19 11:09:49,809 Thread-1 udi_interface INFO solaredge-poly:discover: Adding site id: 1003126 2023-08-19 11:09:49,811 Thread-1 udi_interface.interface INFO interface:addNode: Adding node Quackenbush1(1003126) [None] 2023-08-19 11:09:49,813 Thread-1 udi_interface INFO solaredge-poly:discover: Requesting site inventory... 2023-08-19 11:09:51,069 Thread-1 udi_interface INFO solaredge-poly:discover: Found: 8 meters, 0 sensors, 0 gateways, 2 batteries, 2 inverters 2023-08-19 11:09:51,070 Thread-1 udi_interface INFO solaredge-poly:discover: Adding inverter 7F177E6B-7F 2023-08-19 11:09:51,073 Thread-1 udi_interface.interface INFO interface:addNode: Adding node Inverter 1(7f177e6b7f) [None] 2023-08-19 11:09:51,075 Thread-1 udi_interface INFO solaredge-poly:discover: Adding inverter 7F16EF1C-A0 2023-08-19 11:09:51,078 Thread-1 udi_interface.interface INFO interface:addNode: Adding node Inverter 2(7f16ef1ca0) [None] 2023-08-19 11:09:51,080 Thread-1 udi_interface INFO solaredge-poly:discover: Adding battery R15563P3SSEG12204231694 2023-08-19 11:09:51,082 Thread-1 udi_interface.interface INFO interface:addNode: Adding node Battery 1.5(r15563p3sseg12) [None]

The bigger question: why are these occurring? Is this an issue or not?

Like others have mentioned, I am now seeing many on-line and off-line notifications per day, screen shot posted. This does not look normal to me.. I am running both an ISY for the IR capability alongside the Polisy but haven’t noticed any system “issues” per se.

Wow, I have only been running the “new” Polisy for six months and now another new piece of hardware. If I had known the EISY was imminent, I would not have spent the money to move from the ISY to the Polisy. I understand technology marches on but this feels unfortunate. Did I miss that this latest generation was coming soon?

Guess my lesson may have to wait for another day. My wife just told me she prefers to control the hall lights…GASP, manually! What is this world coming to???

Thanks all for the comments and this has been very helpful for my understanding. I’ve never used the Adjust Scene feature so seems a good time to learn. I would only be doing the adjust twice a day, once when it is dusk, once when it is dawn so hopefully will not experience any issues with the lag time.

I was using multiple scenes before and thought this variable approach was much more....elegant. 1 scene instead of 3, 20%, 80%, 100%, and less code. If it doesn't work the way I thought it would, feels like a swing and a missed opportunity. The variable is being treated like a static value instead of.......a variable. That's weird that you have dates as an option for on levels, I have only percentages or variables to pick from, no dates. Doesn't make sense. I'm running 5.4.4.

@Techman Here's the scene. --------------------------------------------------------- $Dark_Ind is a State variable set at Dawn or Dusk $Hall_Illumination_Code is an Integer ---------------------------------------------------------- Set Dawn or Dusk Conditions If $Dark_Ind is 1 Then $Hall_Illumination_Code = 20 $Hall_Illumination_Code Init To 20 Else $Hall_Illumination_Code = 80 $Hall_Illumination_Code Init To 80 Hall_Grp_Motion_ON If 'Hall_Motion-Sensor' is switched On Then Set 'Hall_Lights_GRP' On '$Hall_Illumination_Code %' Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') Hall_Grp_Motion_OFF If 'Hall_Motion-Sensor' is switched Off Then Set 'Hall_Lights_GRP' Fast Off Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')

I've come up with a potential use for the feature to specify a variable for a light device illumination level. I have a Scene with two devices, and within the Scene set both devices to use the variable for the ON level. I have programming that changes that variable based on certain conditions. What I expected to happen was that the Scene would turn on at that ON level at which the variable is currently set. What seems to happen is that the Scene always turns on at the ON level for the variable at the time that the Scene was created even if the variable is different. Is this correct?

@larryllixhere is what I remember, your summary is mostly correct. Came home and lights in pantry, keypad and dimmer switch were flickering, but no other lights or switches were flickering (Yes, I do not recall any other lights or keypads flickering) Replaced dimmer switch and tried to link it to Polisy (I have two switches in the pantry, a dimmer and an 8 button keypad. The decision as to which device to replace was easy, don't have an extra 8-button, did have an extra dimmer, replace the dimmer first) All hell breaks loose and now all lights, keypads, and switches in the house are flickering (While I was in the process of replacing the dimmer, all the other lights and keypads also started to flicker, I think. After replacing the dimmer, I then went to admin console on the Polisy to link the new dimmer and had error messages pop up that every device in the house was unable to communicate) Next Were the lights in the pantry, keypad and dimmer switch all on the same electrical circuit? (Yes, I believe so) After shutting off the power to replace the dimmer switch, installing the new switch, and turning the power back on, were the pantry lights flickering? Was the keypad flickering? Was the new switch flickering? (I never turned off the power, removed the old switch hot, rewired the new switch hot. I know, I know, I know, don't beat me up. As I remember, at this point, all lights and keypads in the house were flickering. When I saw the the error messages for every other device in the house, I decided to replace the PLM. I remember very distinctly as that process was underway, when the event viewer displayed a write message, the lights in the room where the computer are, also flickered along with the write. It took multiple iterations to get through the PLM restore to the point where almost all the devices were at least reachable by the Polisy) Once the flickering throughout the house started, did it continue non-stop? Was it flickering when the power company and/or the electrician game out? (The flickering continued until the PLM restore was completely done, no flickering since then, including when the power company and electrician came out.)

Hi all, wanted to circle back on this now having come out the other end and for whatever help my experience may bring someone else. Power company and electrician were out - no wiring issues found. Ultimately came down to what I believe was a PLM failure over a matter of hours from the time I first saw the lights and keypads flickering to replacing and restoring the PLM. Given the PLM was closing in on 3 years of service, that time period is consistent in terms of failure with all other comments I have seen from others unfortunately. Guess I may soon embark on a journey of repair on the bad PLM to make sure I have backups at the ready given no indication on what is going to happen with the new Insteon team. Even after restoring the PLM which took some hours and multiple attempts to get through, I still had 3 keypads which showed either pending writes or were unreachable by the ISY yet had varying degrees of ability to communicate with their connected devices / scenes from not at all to working correctly. For each of those 3 devices, my chosen path of action was to delete the keypad, re-link the keypad and then setup each keypad as it was previously. That process worked successfully. I also found I had a smattering of other devices, IO Lincs primarily that were exhibiting inconsistent behavior. I followed the same path, with deleting and re-adding those, also successfully. Knock on wood, happy to say I think this exercise is over and all is working correctly. I appreciate all comments from others and am always happy to learn new things and remain impressed with the knowledge and willingness to help shown on this forum.

Thanks all for the comments, calling the power company tomorrow. If they do in fact find a wiring issue, I’m going to reimplement the previous PLM. Been a weird few days, lights turning on or off by themselves, etc. @larryllixto your comments concerning the solar system, the solar system is not used as our power backup, we have a generator for that which kicks on automatically within 30 seconds after detecting an outage. I have no indication from the generator app, or the UPS on my house server that we actually lost power. Something happened during that period, no idea what.

This is all good stuff. Let me add one more tidbit of info. I noticed at the same time this was going on, an anomaly with our solar system. The only relationship our solar system has is a SolarEdge Node server in the Polisy which provides nothing but info. But, I noticed from the monitoring app, a big gap in the self consumption graph plus a big consumption spike in the middle of it, screen shot is attached. We weren’t even home during most of this,so it was nothing we were doing. How does this add, or not, to the discussion?

Thanks for the feedback. Going to have to figure out how I engage the electric company on this one with no actual outage to report. Hmmm. More info - I was finally after multiple attempts, able to get most of the devices back on-line. I have 3 devices, all keypads, still with writes pending (error writing message), or unable to communicate. Haven't touched any of these guys in months or more. Now I'm wondering if the switch I replaced and / or the PLM I replaced were not in fact bad. How do I tell a bad PLM in this scenario? Don't want to give up on this one given they are now worth their weight in gold.

Came home from running an errand, lights in the pantry, keypad, and dimmer switch all flickering. Start troubleshooting, figure I have a bad switch, replace the dimmer switch, go to link the device, all hell breaks loose. Lights flickering all over the house, keypads flickering all over the house. Ok, this is an issue affecting everything, likely the PLM? Replace the PLM, Restore PLM, lights all over the house still flickering, keypads flickering, 1/3 of my devices can be reached, 1/3 cannot be reached (Red !), 1/3 pending writes from the Polisy. Cannot communicate messages all over the place... What the heck is going on????

Thanks Doug, think I will hold out for a while, no pressing need and hope @bpwwer will find the time to get this added to PG3.

@CH491 @ralbrighthaving probably a configuration problem getting this node server to work. All messages in PG3 seem successful, node server shows up in the Polisy, yet none of the media options shown from the article are available. On the main status display, I see Plex Webhook Listener with the 4 fields; Node server online, listening port, client count, and rapid trigger. In the program section, the only options available are the same 4. I’ve added the Plex webhook address as specified, what else should I try?

FYI, I also tried the AVRemote NS suggested by @Dub and it is really close functionality as well. With that NS, all 3 zones are there for my Onkyo and all input selections are there with the exception of Streaming Device input which is one of my main interests.

Thank you @garybixler and @bpwwer. Looking forward to that improvment.

Hi @dbwarner5, pretty sure you said you have your Russound MCA-88 node server working. What node server are you running?

Hey Bob, the documentation on your Russound NS specifies CAV/CVS receivers. Do you know if this will work as well for the MCA series before I spend my $25?