Legodeveloper

I thought I would share this in case someone else is looking for a way to have the ISY control Levolor blinds. The designer side of our relationship wanted Levolor blinds because they are “better”. The techie side of our relationship thought they weren’t because they exclusively use their own Premium 6-channel Remote for control. They have an App but that relies on the remote. I found a device called a Wevolor for controlling Levolor window shades and blinds through WiFi. It runs on a ESP32 using the same method as the app to control the blinds via a Bluetooth connection to the remote. You can buy a device ready to go or there are instructions to build one. I purchased two as you need one for each remote. On a side note, the range surprised me, I was able to avoid having another visible device in the Living Room. They are designed to work with IFTT but I found it was easy to create Network Resources to control the blinds from ISY on my local network. The only issue I had was setting the time-out value high enough for the commands. Use the Status command to verify the connection to the remote. The default time-out value works for this command. You just create an HTTP Get to the IP address of the Wevolor on port 80. Here are some sample paths. /_status /_command?action=tiltopen&groups=1 /_command?action=tiltclose&groups=1 /_command?action=open&groups=1 /_command?action=close&groups=1 /_command?action=stop&groups=1 /_command?action=close&groups=15 (the group= value is the 1 to 6 button(s) in binary so 15 is for Groups 1,2,3 and 4) A big shout out to Roger Hoggarth at wevolor.com who solved this problem for me.

Since replacing the PLM the problem has not returned so I'm feeling much safer. Given I had to take my motion sensors down to update to the new PLM, I thought it would be smart to replace the batteries at the same time. Looking at my logs, and considering the only time I witnessed the problem, I would say it is more likely the problem was the motion sensors, possibly low battery, and not the PLM. If it is the motion sensor and if it is sending a group 255 command, then I wonder if the PLM can sense those. If they can, then why can they at least log an error on the ISY or if possible, trap it so you can do something about it via program. On a side note, since this was problem was turning on Zone 1 on my sprinklers, and I was not using 8, I moved zone 1 to 8 so I wasn't dumping a ton of water on the lawn.

Both PLM's show v9B in the Administrative Console

Old: V1.B 1317 New: V1.B 1408

Thanks all for the tip. I replaced my PLM and will monitor.

Sorry 994i/IR pro

Hello, I have had an intermittent problem where all my Insteon devices turn on at once. All switches, dimmers, KPL's, plug in modules come on. The very bad thing is my Garage door opens and the sprinklers turn on. There is nothing in the ISY log and it does not show the correct state of the devices unless I do a query all. No programs were being run at the time. The only item in the log when this happens is the garage door logs that it is open. When I'm not home, I get a notification that my garage door is open too long. When I'm at home, middle of the day, I just see that everything turn on at once. Happens day or night and several days apart. ISY99i/IR Pro V4.22 -OpenADR -Weather Information -ELK M1 gold - have not configured it to control any devices -Portal Integration Mobilinc Internet access is disabled. I have about 100 devices, including KPL's, dimmers, switches, smoke bridge, iMeter Solo and water and motion sensors. I have a few filterlincs on suspected noisy devices and several access point / phase couplers. The isy and all my network devices are powered on UPS. The PLM is direct to a separate outlet. Any suggestions as what this could be or what steps I could take to figure this out? Thanks