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Thank you guys that did it! I had also opened a ticket and Michel suggested that this morning too. MrBill that makes sense now because I think I had done that in the past and forgotten all about it, which would explain why my old laptop stopped working at some point then my new one didn't work either.

I came searching for this exact problem but I don't have the wrong UI... any other ideas? This started happening probably a few months ago on my laptop that I have always accessed the ISY console from. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling java and the isy console with no change. For the time being I had installed the console on my girlfriends laptop and it works fine there so I assumed something was wrong with my laptop. But now I bought myself a brand new laptop this week and did a fresh install and no programs there either! I'm at a loss of what is different between the computers that work and don't. All are Windows 10. Java 8 update 251 on my new one. The other laptop is Java 8 update 241 so I even tried installing the older version of Java but no change...

That's true. I think same probably for washer and dryer, I already put relays on my old ones so they tell me when they're done through ISY and usually start them right away when using them. I'm curious how useful the fridge cameras are, I have been at the store and wondering if we have this or that but the way we normally throw things in the fridge I'm not sure you could see it. Maybe I can find a camera to add to my old one to try for cheap. Same for the touchscreen on the front. If it isn't Android based and customizable I probably wouldn't be happy with what I was limited to. Would like to be able to control Sonos from it. Have you seen that brand new Leviton Load Center? I am upgrading my electric panel soon too and debating whether to waste the lot of extra money on the coolness factor of it. https://www.leviton.com/en/products/residential/load-centers/the-leviton-smart-load-center Sent from my SM-N975U using Tapatalk

I am in the market for replacing mainly my oven to start but willing to replace all my appliances if new smart features are working well. Is anyone using or had experience with any brands and can you share your pros/cons/experience? Anything is fine oven/fridge/washer/dryer/dishwasher/microwave/etc. Currently I have my original circa 1967 oven wired with a temp probe updating the ISY as well as a relay monitoring the heating light so I can tell in the ISY when it's turned on and done preheating initially (and announce it over Sonos). But it would be nice to have a new oven that can be activated remotely as well. So curious what each company has to offer if you have experience! Sent from my SM-N975U using Tapatalk

I installed my new dongle about a week ago. I was on 5.0.13A. ISY placed vertical with LEDs down. Query at restart was off. Did not do a heal initially. Schlage locks - I have always had reliability issues with 3 of 4 of them. Those persisted with the new dongle. So everything seems to work for me the same as before. I decided to try an exclude / include on two of them. One is just messed up, wouldn't take the programming code so I tried a factory reset 3 times and it still won't take the programming code or default/any user codes. Oddly it seems to be working fine with the ISY! I was able to add user code back in from ISY and it seems to work fine. The second one wouldn't exclude at its present distance from the ISY. I tried a heal for the heck of it but no change. I moved the ISY right next to it. Exlcuded and included instantly. Seemed much faster than I recall happening in the past. It has worked well for the past week, so better than before. I'm going to try the same with the last lock today. Trane ZWave Thermostat - this continues to works well with ISY. A new node popped up with the new dongle - ZW Multilevel Sensor that lists Barometric pressure with no value. Somfy ZWave to RF blind controller - works fine as before. Aeotec Siren and Gen 6 range extender securely included - work fine but I didn't notice any difference getting my locks to work any differently. They are found and used in routing. So overall everything is working fine, locks better than before but not sure it that's due to the dongle or excluding and reincluding the one lock and messing with the other. I did notice that 3 of the locks always show this when requesting Link Details from them individually: Mon 08/06/2018 14:02:35 : [ZW-SHOW ] ---------------------------------------------- Mon 08/06/2018 14:02:41 : [ZW-TX-FAILED] enc=Ok uid=32.0 cmd=0x85.05 ASSOCIATION Mon 08/06/2018 14:02:48 : [ZW-TX-FAILED] enc=Ok uid=32.0 cmd=0x85.05 ASSOCIATION Mon 08/06/2018 14:02:55 : [ZW-TX-FAILED] enc=Ok uid=32.0 cmd=0x85.05 ASSOCIATION Mon 08/06/2018 14:02:55 : [ZW-SHOW ] Node 32 - Lock_Patio cannot retrieve association groups Mon 08/06/2018 14:02:55 : [ZW-SHOW ] Mon 08/06/2018 14:02:55 : [ZW-SHOW ] ---------------------------------------------- Mon 08/06/2018 14:02:55 : [UZW-CMD 38 ] Show Node Links : ZW032_1 Whereas the 4th lock which is also the newest and closest to the ISY shows this: Mon 08/06/2018 13:56:44 : [ZW-SHOW ] ---------------------------------------------- Mon 08/06/2018 13:56:47 : [ZW-SHOW ] Node 31 - Lock_Front has 1 association group Mon 08/06/2018 13:56:50 : [ZW-SHOW ] Associations for group 001 of ZW031_1 Lock_Front Mon 08/06/2018 13:56:50 : [ZW-SHOW ] Max Associations = 2 Mon 08/06/2018 13:56:50 : [ZW-SHOW ] - Node 1 - [This ISY] Mon 08/06/2018 13:56:50 : [ZW-SHOW ] Mon 08/06/2018 13:56:50 : [ZW-SHOW ] ---------------------------------------------- Despite that error the locks are working fine, trigger and respond to programs consistently, and update right away in the admin console so I'm happy with everything thus far.

That is neat, I'll have to try it out. I wanted some way to push speech to an Echo last year but when I looked into it at the time they did not allow it, only way was pushing speech to a bluetooth device connected to the Echo that would play it's own speech / audio through the Echo. Or being creative with one of the remotes and having a pi or something talk through a headphone into the remote saying "Simon Says whatever you want to say" then the connected Echo would repeat your speech.

I really like their ifttt setup. I wish it would let you run a script for the response though. Sent from my SM-N930V using Tapatalk

Lots of ways to do it, my thought was add: If button A switched on Then disable basement laundry on If button A switched off Then enable basement laundry on Turn off (the 3 lights) Since your lights aren't directly linked to the motion sensor just to that program, disabling the program will prevent the off from the motion sensor from doing anything. Sent from my Note 7 using Tapatalk

What model camera? Sent from my SM-N930V using Tapatalk

I mounted a Pi Zero in my car with a Bluetooth low energy module that scans every 10 seconds for the BT mac address of your choice. I haven't finished deciding how I want to trigger the garage. The easiest idea I'm going with for the moment is when the Pi in the car detects a BT device in the garage (arriving home) it turns on a relay connected to an insteon mini remote button. The scene for that button will trigger a program in ISY checking if the garage is closed and if so trigger the garage to open. Here's the site that got me started: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/auto-locking-office-door-smartphone-proximity-sensor/ This is a new setup so I'm still experimenting. I'd like to get an iot 3g dongle so the pi in the car can always communicate both ways and then just call the ISY program directly over the Internet. Sent from my SM-N930V using Tapatalk

Larryllix I thought the same thing first read through. As far as the script on the Pi I suppose you could have the ISY tell the script to start when the variable changes to 150 also. But like andyf0 said could just let it run all the time too. All kinds of ways to do it. Sent from my SM-N930V using Tapatalk

I use Tasker (Android) to update a state variable in ISY. Tasker has geofence but I primarily use "wifi near" so you don't even have to be connected just near it. You can also combine them so that if one or the other has an error it has a redundant check. It's not instant though. Ifttt has geofencing that seems to work fine too. I like your arp scan, I'll have to play with that some more. In the past only problem I found with that was some phones don't connect until screen is on. I do use a similar mac address scan to notify me what guest is at my house since you can pull the mac address from your router of previously connected devices. I also just set up a Bluetooth scan on my Raspberry Pi that checks every 15 seconds for your bt mac address (doesn't have to be connected, can be phone or the mac address of your actual cars bt, etc). I use that to recognize when I arrive home to open the garage or unlock the front door. Sent from my SM-N930V using Tapatalk

I got mine working with the bwssystems habridge. Just have to use port 80. All my devices currently in use with the Echo just showed up when pairing in the Google home app! https://github.com/bwssytems/ha-bridge I love the free speech ifttt triggers on the Google home! I can't wait to see the api for more advanced stuff. I have a lot of Amazon Echo skills but hate having to invoke skill names.

I'd answer if I knew anything about that. I have just used the regular Raspbian on 3 different pi's for people and it is pretty instant. Only time I see a long delay is for a skill I made that imports data from a google spreadsheet. The first time you have called it in a while, it loads forever, then the second time its almost instant.

I would encourage people to play around with skills if you're willing to learn and are comfortable with computers in general. About 3 months ago I didn't know anything besides basic html. Now I have learned quite a bit about javascript and nodejs. I started with a skill someone else made and started cutting it down to the basics and then pointing it to my own things then learning new stuff to add to it. Amazon has several example skills too if you're looking for how to do specific things. You can find other sites with how to's for making your first skill but here's what I used. There are many different ways to do it. I'll just pass along what I'm familiar with. You can write skills in python, java, or nodejs (javascript). The first skill I setup up used nodejs so I stuck with that. This is a Sonos skill that to actually work requires you running a Sonos nodejs http server either on a computer or raspberry pi in your network. You don't have to actually set up the Sonos server if you don't want to or don't have sonos. The skill will still interact with you, but it would send back an error when trying to actually do something. Mainly this gives you step by step instructions on setting up a skill, so just follow the steps (skip the first few relating to the jishi node server if you're not going to actually use for Sonos) and then go from there with new code or samples. If you do have Sonos I really like having the server running. You can send it text and it will speak it out over the chosen speaker or all speakers. https://github.com/rgraciano/echo-sonos This is the amazon site that talks a lot about the alexa sdk, lot of good reading information: https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/docs/defining-the-voice-interface I really like this site for learning javascript, I reference back to it often. I'd recommend just reading through the whole javascript tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp You have to have a code editor for easier to follow code writing. Maybe others can give more feedback on different ones. What I've been using is this free desktop editor: http://atom.io I'm probably missing something but other than that I just do a lot of googling and reading through other peoples javascript, then cut, paste, and modify to try to get done what I wanted to do. My "tell me" skill just accesses the ISY REST commands for status and looks to see if the device is on or off. I can share my code when you get to that point. Let me know if you have any questions or get stuck I'll try to explain it better. I use it to ask alexa to tell me if the doors are locked, if the garage door is closed, if the sprinkler is on, what vents are open, and the temperature from my zwave thermostat. I send texts from Alexa two different ways, 1) forwarding to Tasker on my phone so the text comes from me or 2) passing the message and number to ifttt to send an email to the phone number, then my phone doesn't have to be on to send it. If anyone else has more info or tips maybe they can point you to it too. As far as problems with naming conventions and stuff, I hadn't tried using any trouble words yet until you asked. I just tried renaming my tasker skill to "tasker play". I said "Alexa, tasker play" and it opened that skill! So maybe you can use those words too! I have a TV skill I'm going to have to play around with copying out parts of it for play and pause and see if that works. The only issue I ran into so far was having a skill named "Jason" and then another skill I have prompts you for a name, so when I say "Jason" Alexa says "I can only help you with one skill at a time". Kind of dumb if you're in one skill it would try to open a second instead of just take down the speech as input.