paulbates

That's a great point. There are a lot of new free services that come out, some work great like this, other's like IFTTT have been so-so for me. I can't comment on other notification services, but pushover has just worked, I don't worry about it. Paul

There is this wiki article that describes some of them I can comment on pushover. I've been using it on ios. I use network resources to send notifications. Their concept of setting up "applications" from their website is more like folders, I can look at all notifications in time order, or click under each "application" to see just their alerts. I have "applications" (folders) for HVAC, Sprinkler, Alarm system, garage door, ISY alerts (battery, reboots,etc). I have multiple, different messages in each application, and the app keeps them organized together. I focus on key messages that help me follow what's going on, or observe how key ISY programs are performing using variable/module substitution. For best practice (for me): Its's worth thinking about key events that you want to know about, or help you "tweak" how the ISY is behaving, e.g. balancing power / water usage. Are ISY programs doing what you want? Or did something systemic happen like an ISY reboot, battery alert, lose contact with something like nodelink that offers a heartbeat to follow. Its a little bit of a curve to get the first one going, but after you do, you can copy the NR for an app, and update the network resources and type the different messages you want to see in them. You can also use variable substitution to get better intelligence on what is going on.. eg the battery alert is 25%, or 10% (if the device supports it), actual temps, rainfall, etc. Typically the ISY programs are very simple, and there'll be one for each notification. Paul

Another way to do it is change the router instead of the devices: Login to the new router prior to plugging anything or setting up wifi, and switch its subnet to your LAN current RFC 1819 subnet (192.168.x.x, 10.x.x.x) first. Most will let you do that, by changing the router's LAN IP address. Then add all reserved device IPs (web pages side by side) from the old router in by MAC address, and turn off the old router. Finish configing the new router, add wifi, etc.... then physically swap them out. Go around and restart devices that don't respond. If you are going from/to the same brand, sometimes you can back up and restore router settings which takes care of it. I've used this with dlink and asus

Yes Paul

Agreed mwester. Its a new year're resolution for me too. The ISY and echo relationship make it more complicated and its not as simple as segmentation alone: I want the ISY to talk to nodelink (pi) and the venstars and rainmachine. Having the echo command the ISY for lighting, etc, does get used a lot. But I don't want the echo to have any chance of affecting the venstars or the rainmachine (or most of anything else on my network) Need to find a way to separate it but make it work without creating a configuration nightmare. I'm going to start by removing the echo skills for the venstars and rainmachine. Their functions are fully automated and alexa has not been used I like the idea of fencing off key things like NAS and PCs. Lots to think about Paul

Thanks mwester and Scott for sharing those ideas. I've let a lot of these iot things inside my lan. Time to investigate and step up security. 2 of the devices, including the echo, are full Android OS. Risk/potential wise that's scary to me, in that there's no evidence that they're getting regular patches/upgrades. No evidence of harm either, but I simple don't know. I'm using an asus router with merlinwrt that has TrendMircro's 2-way IPS. It caught a few things from my kids iphones when they were home for Christmas. Since phones/tablets are on the guestnet, it posed no real threat. I'm thinking about firewall rules within the house and a whitelist style connection rules for things going out. Paul

SmartenIT (SimpleHomeNet) creates and sells insteon compatible devices... including their ezseries. I don't understand "willing to pay the price"? I've not found that zwave switches that are peers to insteon switches (scenes, signal local status changes) are less money. The HS 100 zwave is $49.50. I can drive to Menards and put a dualband switchlinc dimmer in my cart for $49.97.

Interesting results. The upload peaks are all exactly 8 hours apart. It doesn't seem like its recording voice without prompting, since I turned the mic off, but it is sending something 3 times a day. Makes me wonder if its info on the locally connected skill devices, or is it observing lan traffic and profiling? Not sure... Also, there is a slight end-of-day traffic hump. These are the graphs from the last 24 hours where the mic button was pressed, no use of the dot for the last 24 hours Upload Download It is making me wonder about the other iot things on my LAN. What are they watching and sending back? Paul

Did you try using the "Start linking" option, and then put the smokebridge in linking mode? Its been a while since I had this device, but my recollection was I had to do it that way Paul

Move the "Repeat" statement up to be the first statement. That will do it Paul

Is there an If statement? If that logic becomes false the program will stop. Can you share the program? That will help Paul

Hey, great idea... and I just muted it. I'll see what happens Paul

There have been discussions here about how much traffic the Echo/Dot transmits. I've watched mine in the past and it didn't seem like much. I started monitoring it again.. the results aren't alarming, but curious We do very little with it. Lights, TV, Thermostat commands occasionally, questions here and there. No music. Its consistently about 2.5MB a day uploaded, and about 1.5MB download. The use is bursty (see the graphs). It doesn't always map to people being in the room or noise/conversation. It is interesting that its reverse client server... a little more up than down The amount of data transferred in the peaks is minimal, and hard to believe decent audio was sent: 111K in an hour (the biggest peak) is 1800 bytes a minute. Maybe that's too simplistic though Some of the peaks are times that no-one was home or in the middle of the night and no-one was in the room Traffic sent over 24 hours Traffic received over 24 hours Not sure what to do with this, wondering if anyone else has monitored their's. Maybe I'll try and muffle it and see if anything changes Paul

I think something else is wrong. We average a power outage maybe every year and a half. The ISY and PLM come back no problem. Some older devices like togglincs occasionally have heartburn over extended brownouts and need to be factory reset. When you say "manually reboot the PLM", do you mean unplugging and re-plugging it back in? It might be that the PLM is older and also has been affected by the frequent black outs. You might try factory resetting it and then follow that up with a "Restore modem" from the ISY admin console's file menue Paul

To add to Larry's great idea, you can have your programs in various folders, and have a condition like a variable called "stop" (= 1). Add that as a folder condition to each folder, and make sure its prefixed by an "or". Keep your "stop" program at the root level so its not affected. You will want to initialize stop = 1 so your ISY works when rebooted (or check for 0 instead of 1) If (stop condition) Then $Stop = "1" Else $Stop = "0" ( run program A if) ( run program B then) Keep in mind that the ISY is event driven, so turning the "stop" variable to 1 will stop all of the programs... but changing it to 0 not start all of the stopped programs.. when their conditions are met they will start individually, or you might have to manually run the "ifs". Or add statements in the else to run key programs to restart them. I do something similar when my ISY restarts, I kick off certain key programs so values get populated, etc Paul

Glad you figured it out. I've had a bad one as well. Here is the program that's worked for me. The hearbeat doesn't have an on/off state per-say. It sends a message every ~24 hours and is detected "If xx is switched on" I give it 25 hours as its not always exactly 24 hours, 25 proved safely outside the window. The next message, ~24 hours later, restarts the program (until it doesn't, and falls through to the notification) Battery Doorwall Heartbeat If 'Zystem / Battery Alerts / Doorwall Sensor-Heartbeat' is switched On Then Wait 25 hours Resource 'Pushover Doorwall Sensor Battery Low' Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') Paul

2 things... 1- what's normal Yellow arrow pointing right indicates a sensor input device.. that's as it should be 3 devices Open and Close indicate state, but the responses are opposite of each other There really is no difference other than making a program more readable, looking for a door to open vs close. A heartbeat message is sent ~ every 24 hours as a way to know the battery, or the unit died You can write a program with a 24 hour wait and then a notification. If you get the notification a few times, the battery is probably going Using the sensor 'If control' program statements let you respond to the action of the door being opened or closed. 'If status' program statements let you use the doors state, especially if timing is needed. We have long periods in the spring and fall when its nice out for a while, then its not. I use this for my doorwall is in open state for x minutes (along with month, outside temp and other factors) to shut off HVAC , as well as cancel my HVAC fan cycling programs. 2- what's not The green light on the sensor body should blink once when you pull the magnet out of range and once when its back in range. Did that not happen? Are there dual band devices nearby to carry the sensors signal onto the powerline or PLM? Paul

Assuming you created an ISY program, with no "if" clause, and you associated it with Connectivity, Amazon Alexa in my.isy.io.. there is nothing special about the ISY program statement content... Normal ISY program statements can be used. Example program: TV (added in Alexa) if <nothing> then (when you say "Alexa turn TV on") set TV on set roomlights off else (when you say "Alexa turn tv off") set roomlights on set TV off You will need to discover devices after creating program the program and associating with my.isy.io. Paul

Hi Matt, welcome to the UDI Forums! I found an older post on this. I suggest you try what's suggested, but since its a new setup, it might be best to submit a ticket as called out in the post. UDI is very responsive... I had a support call when I first set mine up. Merry Christmas to you! Paul

Depending on what you're running for PLC. I'm all insteon and have a few devices on io_guy's nodelink and its fine, and I'm into my second year on v5. However there are some anomalies being reported on how decimal variables behave. This recent thread discussed that, I would pose questions there about what you are doing, what version you should load, and if it would affect your requirements. Maybe its ok on 5.10? Not sure. Paul

Based on what I've seen so far, it seems like something is not right with Java, that java is not caching your admin.jnlp I can think of 2 things it could be The java cache is corrupt / damaged and needs to be cleared (which you indicated you did) The java client is configured to not cache apps local: Go to the java control panel, General / first tab Click View next to Temporary Internet Files. Does it look like the attached pic?​ If no, Go to settings under Temporary Internet Files Is Keep temporary files on my computer checked? Check it if not and retry If yes, as a precaution, I would go under Delete files, check all three boxes and delete it all and try again Paul

If you go to your windows download folder, do you find admin.jnlp there? If its not there, you can open file explorer, click on Drive C: and type in admin.jnlp in the search box. (it might take a minute or so) Move it when you find it to your desktop If that doesn't help, can you post a screen shot of what you're clicking? Paul

IndyMike is right, I forgot that that the ISY does not do group clean ups. Having a controller like the ISY getting dozen or more cleanups back from a very large scene potentially creates a lot of traffic.. around the same time. Paul

Were these "disabled" for the winter and subsequently re-enabled now? I disable the older lamplincs I put away with the Christmas decorations till the next year. Maybe factory reset one and re-test to see if that helps. Paul

There is one other thing to try, if the device supports it: 'Communication to the PLM'. Its found by right clicking on a device and picking 'Advanced'. If the device supports it, there will be a drop down to pick the number of retries. I have a few devices on the edge of my network that were problems I tried this on. For keypads, you set it by the key which was handy for me. I started with 2 retries and that seemed to solve it. I'm not really sure of the scope of this feature, and the problem was very intermittent... but the problem has gone away. Its easy to try. Paul