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Are the devices surfaced in the ISY portal ECHO page just the ones for connected home or the ones for connected home and the skill? What I am hoping is the skill can always see 100% of devices and the ones surfaced in the portal are the ones just for connected home. (i did check the wiki and youtube video and this point wasn't clear to me).

If one configures the portal camera feature does that work too?

Now we just need firmware v5 to support the multi z-wave devices and everything will be perfect Got my 2x Echos working today (hadn't looked at this stuff since before the brain surgery in Dec) awesome work! I did feel dumb asking Izzy this and that and wondering why it didn't work so much changed in so little time. It would be great to asks Amazon to support lock and unlock and status commands. Like "alexa whats the status of front door lock".

You are right, just activated my skill. Couldn't refresh list of devices as wife was asleep and I am off for brain surgery, can't wait to play with this in a couple of weeks!

i purchased a cert for my domain i had installed on my ISY for mobilinc originally but then rebound it yo my synology NAS for secure remote access. Whats interesting is that didn't invalidate the cert for mobilinc because it doesn't do revocation checking! yay 2 for the price of one. I also already purchases the ISY portal - i like the potential of it.

Will you be likely to have second phase of betas? I was AWOL earlier in the year.

I have the acurite system, it works, the software is a pain, in the end i got the version of SW from the folks who make the base acurite software, but i walked away as the guy doing the software is one objectionable individual. Just got a netatmo today... happy to keep you posted if you like...?

Thanks to Barry I now have this running in my environment running both devices, scenes and programs. I am using RPi2 running raspbian. All my Pi's are wired too. I have a complete RPI how to that includes downloading and setting up Java if that helps? (i created it for different project and out of all the help io_guy gave me a while back. I can post if folks would like it? --bah thought I would put 'short version' here -- Download latest raspian image and copy to memory card with win32 disk imager. Connect with SSH (pi raspberry) sudo bash (recommend doing all sudo commands in sudo bash shell) raspi-config Choose 1 - expand file system Exit app and reboot when prompted After logging back in, next step is to update the system and reboot. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo reboot sudo apt-get installl oracle-java7-jdk copy the bwsystems jar file to something like /pi/home/habridge/name of jar file now run the jar file with the commands you want to test you have it working in your system before you bother trying to run it from rc.local (the command are well documented in barry's instructions included in his download package) As an aside I know barry likes VNC but I prefer RDP and install xRDP with: sudo apt-get install xRDP (this will run every boot without needing to edit the rc.local) ​ ​

Oh that makes total sense, i like the idea of 'variations' i wonder if the eventual UDI skills server might allow loose matches. For me i still only have one scene added to show the wife and get feedback, i suspect i will add only a few scenes for major activities like prepping the house for night, turning off/on groups of lights (like when leaving the kitchen to go to the home theater and ones hands are full). With 40+ devices in the house i am never going to remember strict naming of all of them!

Are you using the ISY mapper? It has bug if not run as admin that leaves setting as admin:admin.

You don't need to run two instances, you can run one. The Dvera.address parameter is only used for Vera, defining to point at the ISY does nothing other than populate the defaults on the manual tab. If you use ISY mapper to create your ISY devices the mapper will put the right IP address in the URL or if you do it manually you can specify the IP address when you write the URL definition. I have single instance controlling both Vera and ISY.

Definitely want to hear how you get on! I just went and researched the spoken property.Can that be set in the ISY admin UI or only by REST? Guess I need to go look at the ISYHelper (I have an android tablet somewhere ) With fauxmo does it emulate more device types than just lights like the hue emulators do? If it does would that give echo more control options? alex

Thanks, I like you IP address fix in your rc.local (that said I may post issue to the GitHub - one shouldn't really have to do that - the code is faulty as it defaults to 127.0.1.1 which is an illegal address, I suspect it is supposed to be 127.0.0.1 for the loopback.... I guess the -cp parameter (instead of the -jar parameter) is not needed as I now realize that the java app has no interactive UI. If it did we would need to run with -cp instead of -jar. The Dvera address has no purpose in an ISY environment, that parameter is used to retrievie devices from the vera directly, it would be nice if bw systems made their code query the ISY directly too! That said it needs to be set to something or the logs log exceptions. I actually have a Vera and pointed it to that. So now I can address the ISY or the Vera. Personally I am lazy and not gonna hand code all my devices/scenes - luckily the ISY to HUE Mapper works just fine to populate the ha-bridge (not surprising as it as a fork of the original 'emulator'. I am unclear why bw systems copied the code rather than fork it properly?) though it has a bug as it used 'set' when a scene is added instead of 'cmd' - minor to change, but without that scenes don't work I will let him know about that. Now all we need is the bw systems code to interrogate the IST directly Thanks for your help, got it working with one scene. Now the rest!

barrygordon - thanks, perfect answers, I am very intrigued by stunnel, will go research, I have a full public cert I use for HTTPS access to my synology, being able to https protect other traffic is definitely useful. I guess what we want is some sort of ISY solutions for skils / ability to add ISY community skills. Right off to get various bits and start poking. Something else my trust rpi can do. BTW I just install xrdp with 'sudo apt-get xrdp' - this installs everything needed to RDP into the machine, my preferred client is currently bitvise (free) but I am going to give winscp as you recommended it! --edit-- is it possible to run the ha-bridge with the java -cp flag to run it headless (this is what I do with my dscServer.jar file....) --edit2-- hmm before I go headless I guess I need to get it working. I assume that Dvera.address is the IP address of either a vera OR the ISY. If so how do I provide password / username? I actually have all my ISY devices (but not scenes) running in Vera already (and the vera is the primary z-wave controller until my ISY 5.0 has multi devices enabled) - any recommendations on approach? I am going to try straight to the ISY first... --edit3-- ah I think I jumped into fast, the bws ha-bridge doesn't seem to enumerate anything from the ISY - right? I now assume when you said 'write code' you meant for me to handcraft the on/off URLs in manual add? right? --edit4-- ok, I worked out I can use the ISY to Hue Mapper to add devices to the bws ha-bridge version of the emulator by adding the devices in the mapper and clicking combination of update echo and save. I then have to click GO in the has bridge that then adds them to the configuration page. --edit5-- ah the -Dupnp.config.address= parameter seems to be critical, without this the code defaults to 127.0.1.1 - which is odd as that is not a valid localhost address of 127.0.0.1 or 0.0.0.0 which is what most other java apps on pi bind too (i.e. they just automatically bind to the first and only app address). the text file would indicate it should default to the first ip address, it doesn't so I guess it is a bug! Right now the alex works!

Thanks, 1) are there any reason to select hue emulator vs hue bridge app vs wemo emulator? 2) do I need the emulator if I have real hue? I was confused by the mapper apps instructions.... 3) does anyone have insight into the statements some have made about UDI doing Echo support? 4) I haven't figured out what or where stunnel fits in? 5) same for skills server...?

Hi. I have been away for 6mo doing work, want to refresh my HA. I have ISY, Vera, Smarthings, Echo, DSCLink (running on Pi along with interface to my heating system). This thread at 21 pages is a little hard to parse! Might someone give me some simple steps/pointers of what I need to download/do in what order to get the Echo controlling my devices? I am happy to go research and learn, but a little confused what to do in what order!? (I am hoping barrygordon can supply <grin>)

Folks on the thread with carrier, a question. I have a carrier two stage gas furnace,a carrier damper control and a carrier non-communicating AC unit and the infinity touch wifi thermostat. The only thing I can see that I would loose if I switched to a Honeywell damper control and generic z-wave thermostat (e.g. nest, ecobee etc) is the static pressure check and a few diagnostics that only matter to the technician. Is there any *meaningful* reason for me to not get rid of the proprietary bus? (PS currently I am trying to see if I can use infinitude to control the system or maybe use the RS232 bus on the SAM module - though that will cost me ~$1000 to purchase.....)

I have been attempting to use roowifi - but found the board to be very unreliable, I ordered an antenna off ebay, lets see if hat fixes the comms issues.

I had a quick look on the pepper z-wave libarary I don't see any other attributes, so I guess the answer is "no you can't"... (unless there are secret attributes?) http://www.pepper1.net/zwavedb/?sort=name&sort_type=desc&filter_cmd_class=&filter_frequency=&filter_language=&filter_manufacturer=58&filter_generic_class=

Awesome, please make it as easy an upgrade as possible (I mean transferring the z-wave config over - the physical install is what it is )

Michael can I ask what virtual nodes will allow us to do as a community (if anything)? For example will virtual nodes let us take data from network resources and let us flag it as 'energy' or create support for devices that you don't support directly? Or is there some other purpose to at a platform level that gives you flexibility to do more, more easily, later. I don't mind what the answer is, just want to be clear on how I set my own expectations

Nanny state like CA. I guess you are referring to Canada and New York?

Could be static. Don't think it was a brown out - I have underground power so don't tend to get issues of power lines and trees and wind. Yes it was controlling a load - incandescent lights (about 300w worth)

I think you are right, I just dug into that document, it needs a session token. Shame the app is a C++ app, if it was.net we could use it with mono on Pi and one of th automation shack apps to launch and control the app http://sourceforge.net/projects/harmonyhubcontrol/ ...

I guess start here http://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/harmonyhubcontrol/PROTOCOL.md this will help you use CURL or other apps to get the info, looks like this a little like setting up the hue network resource