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Right, understood Mark. I'm wondering if installing the drive makes it a different volume, etc, so that that HA vm script wouldn't work (?) Paul

Related question: I haven't added home assistant, and have no immediate plans to, but .. If I do this ssd upgrade process to my stock eisy, and at some point want to execute the script to add an HA VM to my eisy, would that script be exactly the same on the HW modified eisy?

I would submit a ticket as this is something other users haven't run in to. I have to believe UDI will help you navigate this.

It was a close competition. We wanted to go up one screen size from the prior TV. Costco had 2 competitive TVs in that screen dimension, one Samsung and one LG. The TV I sold with my house was an LG and I told my wife that LG was a better UI, including that pointing cursor remote. But side by side, the picture of the Samsung was better and I would have regretted that.. the picture is really good. While LG also had pages of boiler plate to accept, they didn't have an HA solution being pressed on me.. setup was on the TV and much more simple

Thanks Javi, I will think about that. I went through the progression of Harmony IR remotes and ended up with the hub at my last house, but never integrated it, it allowed me to have "1 remote to rule them all". Today it's one Samsung TV in the living room... with a MI Box (androidTV).. which needs to be manually switched on with its google IR remote. (I did something to the TV's settings to cause the MI box to switch off when switching away from it as input). I also have a palm sized keyboard remote to enter searches into one of the apps that won't accept voice input (Cinema 2) Your solution would resolve having an Alexa spoken Turn on MI Box Turn on TV Select HDMI2 select the desired app and launch it Irtach is a good alternative to consider, thanks

I would certainly pay for that capability and test on my tv if needed. In my last house, before I had an ISY I had homeseer and there was a Samsung plugin for it that worked well. I'm guessing Alexa spokens -> iox program -> plugin -> TV .... would work as well as Alexa splokens -> (smartthings?) -> TV. .. except the first would avoid smart things, if it proves to be problematic, tbd I did go through the plugin store and the AV capabilities are there, but not for Samsung.

@Michel Kohanim... yep, similar, On/Off, choose HDMI source. We have an MI Box which is also android tv I use google as my cloud/photo storage.. hadn't thought of that access to pictures on the tv, will see if that's possible... thanks!

I bought a Samsung tv later last year. Just to set it up, I had to roll through a lot of terms boiler plate and accept. Then it was insistent that I use smart things to complete the setup; I didn't want to but went there anyway... to find the app had multiple pages of boilerplate to even install it. After getting frustrated with the amount of time it was taking and the amount of PII they wanted to collect.. I stopped and googled and found there was a way on the TV to setup without smartthings, which i then deleted from my device. In prior years it would be the TV listening advertising on SSDP and a compatible digital assistant or home automation controller discovering that. I'm going to try when I'm back in town end of next week... I don't really want to do this but there's a sizable pile of WAF lurking here 😉

Thanks @theitprofessor. My routers have included VPN servers and I had one set up before i retired from a full time travel job and had a windows work laptop that would allow me to run java. Then the ISY portal was released and used that as a (I think the right term is) reverse proxy... I authenticated to the ISY portal and connected through it for ISY for iox/ac remote access from around the country. I continue to have no open firewall ports to my lan or server to run or keep updated. Around the time I retired I went through a period of ~5 years of mostly just using the things I automated and rarely logged in to my ISY. Then sold that house, pc & the ISY and all the iot. I switched to an iPad Air as my main device.. It doesn't run java and not wiling to jailbreak it. I'm in a new-to-me house and have started all over again (of course 🤪) which is how I ended up on vnc. In this new world I'm using the eisy as an internet appliance and stepping back from server setup, maint, etc for both my ISY and router.. no more ssh, RPIs, servers for now. Iox and Plugins are getting me where I need to go.

Vnc is relatively easy to use for iox/ac. An advantage of realvnc is that it's server module now calls out to a secure login service, like eisy with portal are. Secure login, no firewall ports open on my router.... but it doesn't appear to support a lot of less common os variants. The version of W10 on the current pc that I vnc into is the home version, so no RDP service enabled. Even if I pay for realvnc subscription for a number of years, it's still cheaper than buying yet another nuc/appliance with the version of w11 that supports RDP. (I've not used RDP for many years, so that may have changed)

In my new house, the iox/ac box is an older windows machine that does the job great, but also not in a convenient location and has some shared duties that my wife has and sometimes I wait. I would love to have a minimalist headless box to run windows for the sole purpose of RDP in for iox/ac. I know it's possible to run iox/ac on Linux/BSD/ect if a windows license is not available. I tried that on raspbian at my last house and getting it to work was beyond me.

Resources will not be a problem with my phone... it's more: "why oh why is my phone involved in a conversation between my tv and Alexa?? Not to mention the "privacy invasion" of their apps on the tv and phone. Thanks for the response, I'm going to see how far I get trying to meet simply defined functional requirements given how Samsung software works

Having said that, the function set for Insteon devices is focused, specific. I've been buying them since I think 2006 and never needed a firmware upgrade.

Insteon users cannot firmware update devices. What you're shipped is what you get. I use i3 paddles and an outlet and they all work as expected.

I have an eisy, a portal account and a <1 year old Samsung smart tv. I also have an ecobee t stat that can serve as an Alexa. I have some basic things I want to do, looking for comments from those who have integrated a Samsung tv, Alex and the portal. Trying to keep it as simple as possible. What I want to do: Turn the tv on and off, navigate hdmi inputs I believe this all Alexa and Samsung; the portal and iox programming not required(?) I'd really like to avoid smart things, but doubt I'll get away with that. Is smart things necessary or can Alexa discover the tv on its own? For eisy and portal, I'd like to do the old school theater effects; dim room lights and lamps and bring them up based on on/off spokens to alexa Can Alexa routines be written that detect spokens from Alexa->samsung for on/off and update a variable, run a. Program, etc? My recollection of doing this a few years ago was the other way around.. having an ISY program command something on the Alexa side. If someone's done this and can comment I'd appreciate their experience before wandering through this.

Is the same devices though, or a a number of them in multiple scenes and the ones that don't fire?

I had a V572 in my last house and had coax from the attic antenna to the basement equipment shelf. It did work pretty well to catch the Hawkeye/eagleeye triggering (whichever MS was for outdoors)

One way is to go to each device, factory reset it, and then "restore device" from the admin console, one at a time. I know that can be difficult for some devices, but do the ones you can If I was uncertain as to the devices' link table content, I would do that. (I still have some original lamplics in use for indoor Christmas lights)

Do you have a portal account? If yes, my suggestion is to try the UDM app and see what you think. I still use the console a lot, but I'm implementing a lot too *** having said that, not sure if the portal supports the 99i

I forgot to mention that I use the UDM app also for the basic things I need like adding new insteon devices and basic edits. It works well on the iPad

I do most of my admin console work on an iPad Air Gen 5. I use the secure real vnc app as a remote console, about $3.50 / month

Thanks, I just purchased and installed it

This gave me "flashbacks" to isy_data 🤪😂 Thanks!

That's a good suggestion. When I looked in the store, and went to get hub to see an image of what iox would present, it was sunrise and sunset data only. Sounds like you're saying it also presents month / day info like io_guy's ISY_Data node server used to?

I have programs that report out daily data for a sensor. They calculate and give monthly highs and lows. What I need to do is reset the monthly value variables at the end of the first day of the month. It's been a while since I've done this. I found a post that reminded me that I used io_guy's ISY data plugin at my last house.. but I now don't have/want a pi to run nodelink. From what I can see, I'll have to create program that runs at the start of the day and assign day of the month to a variable from system data If time = 12:00:01am then day_of_month = system data / day of month from the drop down I'll have a second program do what I want If time = 11:59:50pm and day_of_month = 1 then (Reset the variables) Is there a way to do it directly with an if in one program, I feel like I'm forgetting something?