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No problem, glad it's working. Now if I could just get close garage door to work! Close lights works. It must be a programmed response built into the Echo to put that phrase into a to do list. Please remove it Amazon!

huh, I guess it truncates these hyperlinks. You can see the whole thing if you quote it in a reply.

Should just be http://username:password@ip:port/rest/programs/programid/runThen What is the 0030 for?

Try naming it just "Living Room Shades" and use the command Alexa, open living room shades or close living room shades. It works with garage door. Sort of. Close still needs turn off garage door. Otherwise it adds close garage door to my to do list. So I made two, one called just garage door and one called close garage door. I can say open garage door, turn off garage door, or turn on close garage door. Sure hope the ISY solution will fix this.

The only issue I had with reliability was with the old emulator. There was one program where I would use it only once a day to arm the house at night and it would always say not responding until I would say turn on/off something else. Then it would right after with no issues. The new bridge emulator does not seem to have that issue.

Just thought I'd provide an update about multiple emulators. I am over 100 devices (spoken commands) now with 3 ha-bridges running on one PC with no ill effects to the PC or to the Echo. I guess I will keep going until I find a limit or run out of commands. Looking forward to using Barry's configuration tool if it will work with multiple emulators running on a single PC. It has been trial and error when it comes to deciding what commands to use. Seems Alexa has issues with things named almost the same thing. If I have a TV, a TV inside, an inside TV, a TV outside and an outside TV, she will always ask which one which is annoying because she gets it right the second time. Removing just the one that is TV cures the problem. Having a program to turn on the Directv receiver by saying Turn on ABC resulted in multiple devices as well. I had to name it Ay BC vice ABC or A B C to get her to stop asking which one. ESPN, NBC and CBS were fine. Had to name The Weather Channel TWC because any time you say weather she just gives a current weather status. CNN had to be C N N to work right. She also has issues with anything with music or volume in the command, which makes sense but it sure would be nice to overcome this somehow. Settled on Receiver Up and Receiver Down.

Thanks! Yeah I guess that makes sense. But the reason I run two is because the Echo stopped recognizing after 44. Running a second one allows me to get 44+44 hopefully (66 total so far). I might even try running more than two to get more. I don't have that many devices but I do like to add multiple entries for the same device so the family doesn't have to get it exactly right. Like Turn on the receiver outside and Turn on the outside receiver etc.... The kids are adopting it quickly but the wife still hasn't. I think she'd like to kill Alexa with all the "Discovery is complete....."

Yes, I have two of them running on a single Windows 7 PC and up to over 60 devices now. I changed the port and responding port on the second one to 8070 and 50001. So to start the second one I use "java -jar -Dvera.address=isyaddress:port -Dupnp.config.address=ipaddressofwin7pc -Dupnp.strict=false -Dserver.port=8070 -Dupnp.response.port=50001 ha-bridge-0.4.2.jar" I have the two identical folders for the bridges except the startup script and the database. I do not know what you mean by "nothing is populating from the ISY". You have to use the IP address with port of the bridge to add devices from a browser. The mapper does not work with the bridge that I know of. I could be wrong though. I am using a mix of scenes, devices and programs. One program called panic sets of the home alarm which could be invaluable if a home intrusion happened and the alarm was not set. Would be nice if I didn't have to say "Turn on panic" but I hope the ISY guys will change all that once they get their module completed. I have noticed a couple of issues though. I have to refresh the manual add device before entering it or it will not write it to the database file. Also, when using two of them, you have to discover devices multiple times sometimes to get Echo to recognize all of them. I have 44 on one before it stopped recognizing any more and I have over 20 on the second so far. Also, the test buttons don't seem to work in the browser either.

Can I ask why the RPi's? When you have three servers running? Just curious. Couldn't you get 28x3 more devices by installing the emulator on the servers as well as the RPi's?

Now we just need a SmartThings emulator!

I can only get 9 devices to discover. So I now have 37 total. 28 Hue and 9 WeMo. Weird.

I get 28 and then it stops discovering. Maybe that is because some of my devices only have an off or on command? 44 total commands?

Other than the electric bill, no. If you already have a PC running 24/7 then no other reason at all.

I have found that for the garage door Alexa will recognize "open garage door" or open any device as on but "close garage door" results in her adding close garage door to my to do list. Close any other device that I have works as off.

Does this mean Universal Devices will have an interface soon?

Has anyone run into a 28 device limit with the emulator? Once I add 29 and run Add new devices on the Echo app, all devices show offline.

It is great for lights. Very fast, was surprised how fast even after reading all the comments. Still need full ISY integration so we can say things like "arm the house", "water the garden", "play music outside", "close the garage door", etc. (Open Garage door does work which is strange) Would be nice to be able to change the response back from just "OK" as well. Also, don't forget Tasker on Android. Integrated with Google voice via Autovoice it can do anything you need it to via voice commands to the ISY. Tasker is something everyone with an ISY should have. Siri will get there I guess, but Android has had this for a few years now.

Has anyone had trouble adding a device that has the same ISY on or off command in the HUE emulator? Once I add my irrigation sprinklers since each one has the same off command Echo stops seeing all my devices. Also happens if I try to make two voice commands do the same thing. For instance, "Alexa, turn off the outside music" or "Alexa, turn off the music outside" are both tied to the same program in the ISY so it fails when both devices are added. They all say offline until I delete the offending device. I can work around it by creating another program just not very convenient. Another quirk I have found is using Echo to open and close the garage door. I create a device called garage door and use one program for opening it on the on line and one program for closing it on the off line. If I ask Alexa to open the garage door she has no issue with it. If I say close the garage door she just adds close the garage door to my to do list. I have to say turn the garage door off to close it. Strange because she will open and close lights with no issues vice on and off.

Thanks! I figured it out. I had to add a device. Once I did that, Echo discovers them and everything works! Thanks! The reason I bought the Echo in the first place!

Please help with getting the emulator up and running. I have the .jar file running in windows but the Echo does not find it as a home automation device. Am I doing this correctly? Thanks! Also, assuming the Echo should see it, how do I set it up to control the ISY? I do many things with the ISY through the REST interface but I do not understand how to get the emulator to post HTTP commands.

larryllix, That was it! Thank you so much! I had no idea that it worked that way. I don't like using a timer since it does delay being able to turn something on and off quickly but I guess for now I will live with it. Also a big thanks to oberkc! I have a much better understanding and will be using the control option in the future instead of status.

Sorry, yes I have a program that is running the "then" section even though the variable in the "if" is not 0 at the same time as it receives the X10 command. In the program below I can see the program icon going green even when the timer is set to 1. This is why the program is looping infinitely. If X10 'A15/Off (11)' is Received Or X10 'A/All Units Off (13)' is Received Or X10 'A/All Lights Off (1)' is Received And ( $KEYPADLINC_D_CABINET_LIGHTS_OFF_TIMER is 0 ) Then Set Scene 'Scenes / KeypadLinc / KeypadLinc LEDs / KeypadLinc LED - D' Off Resource 'Cabinet Lights Off' $KEYPADLINC_D_CABINET_LIGHTS_OFF_TIMER = 1 Run Program 'Keypadlinc_D_Cabinet_Lights_Off_Timer_Reset' (Then Path) Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')

I only have one insteon keypad and about 12-14 X10 devices left in the system. Mostly outlets and lamp modules. I do have about 15 insteon devices as well. The PC resource is X10 only. I only eliminated the X10 address from the keypad based on the statements in the keypad manual about communication issues. That statement is not in other insteon manuals. I also removed all X10 addresses from all other insteon devices as well just in case. Maybe I should just go back to having X10 addresses in all my insteon devices? That seemed to work for the most part but I still would see a mis-match between the state of the LED and the state of the light intermittently. So I read the manual and thought maybe the X10 address was the issue. Do you know why a program can execute when one of the conditions is false? I would really like to understand that.

oberkc, Yes taking it out resolves the issue. I do have to have it issue another command or else the widget will not work to turn the light on and off, it would only provide status. I guess what I do not understand is how the program can execute when one of the conditions is not true. Makes no sense to me. Also, yes the backup is necessary if the ISY cannot reach the X10 device. I do have a phase coupler and X10 signal amplifier and have done extensive testing to determine that sometimes backup is just necessary. Thanks!

I may have to sleep on this. I switched to integer variables with the same results. Not sure that is what you were saying to do but I tried it anyway. Thanks for all your time! I may have more questions and appreciate the answers!