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The number one advantage of the portal for me is secure remote access to the ISY for HAD web pages and the admin console- with no open ports on my router or port forwarding.

To oberkc's point, its a matter of preferences and tradeoffs. As much as possible/practical, I assign switching and button updates, etc, to the Insteon network via scenes as opposed to writing additional programs to control the same thing. I have the ISY follow up or take secondary actions via programs, but primary switching is handled device-device with no middle man (PLM/ISY) My primary reason for using scenes over programs for lighting and garage door control is that I travel. I don't want a down house for a week when the PLM connected to the ISY eventually dies and I am 1000 miles away. The secondary reason is that using programs for lighting control adds additional time between button press and lights going on/off. Paul

It would be worth trying trigger reverse in the iolinc settings. I do this with mine for the same reason, to have a key on a keypad in the house light up when the door is up. Paul

If Snowball-In-Hell = "Yes"......

Francois I would think the portal would work since initially its initiated from the ISY out. That means if you have other devices and appliances working like Roku, streaming music etc... the ISY and Portal operate similarly to that and should work here too. I have no ports open on my firewall and the portal works fine. If you sent a note to UDI support, I believe they would give you the opportunity to test it and not charge you if it didn't work. Paul

I have had 2 ezfloras since 2011 and they work well for direct connected to insteon / ISY. Reasons for the ezflora: They have advanced irrigation features like the ability to use zone 8 for pump/master valve control, automatically turning the last zone off when selecting the next zone on the controller, and a"deadman" timer for each zone.... regardless of what turns a zone on, that zone will always go off after X minutes - you specify by zone. The ezfloras are from SmartenIT, use a customized insteon messaging interface and are immune to "ALL ON" events, where the iolinc can be affected by "ALL ON". For interface beyond my sprinkler programs, I use the stock version of HAD and a customized one on a tablet... I use this to activate zones from the yard for yearly startup, maintenance and yearly shutdown. New for this year, I am going to start my system up from a android tablet using James Peterson's Agave app that's in beta in the forums... is has a nice control for going forward and backward one zone in addition to touching a control for each zone. I will start my system in a week or two this way. You can customize and integrate with other ISY features and devices directly via programs. My programs look at the climate module for forecast and temp, and I also have a hydreon rain sensor to stop or cancel sprinkling if enough rain falls. Potenital reason against cloud based controllers: If it requires a cloud service to operate, I'm wont use it. It has to have some form of local only control direct to the ISY or node server, so if the company stops supporting its cloud environment, the controller doesn't turn into brick from an HA controller perspective. I'm sure there are some out there that support local control, I think io_ guy has one he supports. I also have no reason to flush $220 in ezfloras as they have worked well for 5 years (knocking on wood) Reasons against ezflora: Some people see them die after a few years like PLMs do.. I haven't, but its a risk. No snazzy cloud / mobile software comes with it.. you'll need to have HAD, Agave, mobilinc, etc. Paul

Try Help / Manage Modules or Purchase Modules. It might be available there. It might be credited under purchase modules? Paul

Try the airgap procedure to reset it and try again. If that doesn't work, factory reset the keypadlinc and do a restore device. I've had similar issues replacing PLMs Paul

Hi- Insteon switches can not participate in a traditional, non automated 3 way setup You'll need two insteon switches, one in each box to replicate a traditional 3 way setup Only one of them, in the box on the left, will physically control the light. Using the ISY admin console, you'll create a scene to make both insteon switches work in unison, they each turn the other on or off Wiring directions for this scenario with 2 insteon switches: RIght box and Insteon switch 1 Wire the insteon switch 1 on the right box to incoming black and white only, cap off the switches red and the red in the box Left box and insteon switch 2 Wire the white and black for insteon switch 2 to the incoming white/black show at the bottom of the box Wire the white leading to the lights to the same whites for incoming and switch 2 Wire the red from the insteon switch to the black leading to the lights Cap off the incoming red wire on the bottom As stated above, use the admin console to create a scene where both switched are controllers. this will cause the lights to use insteon to keep the switches in sync Paul

Nice! Thanks for the info Kevin. I want to install echo sometime this year and this is another good reason.

How long is the wire run from the switchlinc to the transformer? The problem is potentially transformer noise. I had a similar problem with some low voltage lighting transformers for halogen lights and yard lights. I used these to dampen the noise and that cured it in 3 different locations. Paul

You're welcome. After you set up your first one, its like riding a bike

Hi epete I'm not sure about the first problem. Go into the ISY Admin Console and look under the Portals tab,does it show you online? after you press refresh. I would try rebooting your ISY. The key does not get sent to IFTTT, you copy and paste it in the Maker channel in your recipes Where it says Disarmed above, use the event name you created under IFTTT Inbound Events in the ISY portal, using this format: Use your ISY Portal IFTTT generated key at the end You'll use the Action part of the maker channel, to cause the ISY to act from an IFTTT external trigger. No IFTTT generated key needed, just the ISY's. You'll use an network resource in the network module to trigger events from the ISY to make IFTTT Maker Triggers to affect something else. Paul

My firm doesn't allow java apps on its systems, so you may run into that hurdle. I was able to get it to work by using 4.a from the release page as written above, and downloading the admin console each time.

Hi Yes, you can. Have the MS's 'Send on Commands only. You can then remove the 'Set Scene on' statement. The scene will turn the lamp on right away, and your program will turn it off: If From Sunset - 1 hour To Sunrise + 31 minutes (next day) And ( Control 'Master Bed Sensor 1' is switched On Or Control 'Master Bed Sensor 2' is switched On ) Then Set Scene 'Master Bed LED' On Wait 1 minute Set Scene 'Master Bed LED' Off Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action' EDIT: you'll need to put the If logic in parens as bolded above

CopyRon The only reason I can think of for keeping all Control (old) and Status (old) statements is if you think you would ever revert to a 4.x firmware version. The 4.x firmwares would only recognize the (old) versions and programs with any of the "new" 5.x features would need to be touched up as those "new" statements don't exist in 4.x. The only difference I've found between (old) and "new" is that for Keypadlincs and Smartenit's EZFlora; only the first device is available in the "new" Control and Status program statements. For instance, I only see the first key of a keypadlinc in the new Status and Control, and the first sprinkler zone of 8 zones of the Ezflora. The fix for this bug hasn't come in yet in 5.x, it remains in 5.04. FWIW, I've kept my Keypadlinc and Ezflora programs on Control (old) and Status(old), and moved everything else to the "new" versions. I'll move the rest when its addressed in a future version. Paul

I would suggest factory resetting the KPL, and then right-click on the keypad in admin console and select restore device. Then retest.

Someguy To get the admin java application on a system remotely, find the release you are using on the forums Select the release you are using and look at the first post from Michel for the release. Follow the directions under 4. a for either downloading or remotely loading the admin console. The launch the downloaded jnlp. Follow the directions from my first post from there Paul

This should work. I have keypad keys on several keypads that control an attic fan and dampers. The keys always reflect the on/off state whether a key or the ISY turns it on/off. The scene controls the buttons and devices. Can you post and image of your scene configuration from the admin console?

Hi someguy This one is tricky and this happened to me too. Here are the steps. Select and copy the long admin console access link (/desc) from the portal Startup the Admin Console on your remote system When the ISY Finder comes up, click "Add" and a box will pop up Paste in the long admin console link with /desc on the end into the box. Click save Double click on the link you just created in the finder As you already figured out, enter your portal credentials in the Admin Console "Authenticate ISY" login box It typically takes longer than usual for the admin console to fully start up. Sometimes a minute or 2 for me depending what remote network I'm on and also the upload speed you have with your ISP Paul

As Jon pointed out, IFTTT channels, including gmail, have a published 15 minute polling time. I typically don't see that long of a delay checking gmail by labels, usually its a couple of seconds to a few minutes. I get consistent 5 second response from gmail to pushover on the same account and messages, I know its not gmail or the service sending the email. I get the first echo message too, as I don't have an echo, but I did link my ISY to my amazon account. I ignore the message. I don't get the state variable message. If you are unable to do that, I would open a tick with UDI and see if they can assist setup. There are newer channel types called 'quick triggers', and that includes the email channel. I'm experimenting with it as a replacement for gmail, but it doesn't not appear to be as rich as gmail and has some limitations. Still looking for that. Paul

Marcin- Looks great. Quite jealous over here I'm thinking if took the money I sunk in custome KPL keys, I would have a good start on buying one of these things.... Paul

Yes, possibly. The "wander" on mine was quite a bit. It doesn't affect use of the door, however it was always a head scratcher why it would false trigger sometimes. I did an number of tests from inside and made marks on the header, and it was apparent that this was the problem. It was an easy fix and its not happened again. At its worse, the sensor was pretty far from the magnet. Paul

Hi I had a similar approach on the sensor and had similar results with the false triggering, but very infrequently. After looking at it, I found that the garage door "wandered" right to left during use. At certain points, the wandering to one side was enough to put the sensor at the edge of its reach from the magnet. I put a shim board on the side that let the garage door wander too far away from the sensor. I put it at an angle so as the door came down, it gently touch the board at the outside, and over a couple of feet nudged the door to the right spot. Here is a pic Hopefully this will work for you. If you go inside the garage and run a few cycles, you will see it happening and can make some marks for placement Paul (if you right click on the picture and open in new window, it will orient correctly)

mv I'm not sure total number of devices should matter. The writes go to a set of devices at a time. Can you provide a short narrative of one set of devices and related scenes.... here is an example I just did: 2 inline lincs, a light bulb and an iolinc 1 test scene 1 minute 30 seconds What kind of results are your getting?