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Thanks that's a good idea as well as I was thinking of putting a motion sensor out there eventually anyway as I'd like to have exterior lights on but dim all night, but if motion is detected raise the brightness basically being like I see you..

I wish ImperiHome would come out for iPhone and ISY, it's for Vera and android but man is it ever good, google it to see what it does, but it's so easy to use and customize. Maybe we should all band together and make our own

Awesome thanks been using it for a month now but wasn't sure if it was recommended so glad to hear it will be okay.

Oh no sorry I mean I just have an Insteon LED there because I had a spare, but ideally it should be replaced with a normal LED and a SwitchLinc, wouldn't have both there.

My rabbit bit through the power cord on the ISY when I had him working with me in my office lol. I don't have another 5v one around the house that fits but found a 6v that works fine. I'm sure I can buy from UDI but with the exchange rate shipping customs etc it's going to cost way more than buying one on Amazon. Just wondering if there's a name or something for the end so that I can find it, as I do have a ton of 5v bricks around here just none fit in the hole only the 6v one I have. Thanks!

Great thanks, not a huge issue was more just thinking it would be handy but I'll probably eventually switch it to a SwitchLinc so wouldn't help there anyway. Thanks!

Just curious as I have an insteon LED bulb on my front porch which never gets turned off from the switch. I was hoping to write a program that would notify me if the switch goes off by mistake, or ideally if someone outside unscrews the bulb to make it darker. I tried one saying "If status of device is not responding" but when testing it (by physically turning off the switch and the load) its been 5 minutes and no notification and ISY admin console doesn't show anything out of the ordinary. Is there a time that it takes before it is considered not responding, or am I supposed to write another program to periodically query it? Didn't think that was necessary with Insteon but was only able to make it run by actually manually selecting Query. Thanks!

You might want to try posting on Spiceworks as well regarding allowing Java through that application. Just in case someone else here hasn't had the same experience, I think you'd get a quicker response there as all it is are Microsoft and other IT experts. When I google that with java, it mentions many times that it can be used to selectively block java etc, so sounds promising as at least it doesn't say it totally prevents it or something.

Um no actually I wrote it the way I mean it, Z-Wave support IS a deal breaker for me. You honestly can't understand what that means, and need me to spell it out? The statement is still correct with or without the word "lack" in there. If a product doesn't include it, then I don't want it, which is therefore a deal breaker. Why would I go on and on about how amazing the ISY's Z-Wave support is only to mean I wouldn't buy his app if it supported Z-Wave? That would make no sense. The OP didn't seem confused by my statement, and that's who it was for, so all is well.

Great thanks everyone, I can't remember why I did it as 2 programs. I was removing things to make it simple but the actual program has schedules on it like it only runs during the day and not middle of the night etc.

I think you could do this with variables though. For example a variable such as "InteriorMotionTripped". When motion is detected by the motion sensor near the door inside, it sets it to 1, when motion is off it goes to 0. Then the program says if your door sensor is tripped as in the door opens, AND the interior motion variable is 1, turn off all your lights etc since it will know you were inside to trip the sensor, and now opened the door, as in you're leaving. As otherwise when you open the door, the variable for inside motion will be 0, meaning you know that you had to be coming in from the outside. The main thing is that the motion sensor inside may need to be positioned for this purpose, such as near the ground, or beside the door aiming in, so that the swinging open motion of the door doesn't trip the motion sensor. It should still be okay, as the door would be opening and the variable 0 for a split second, but you also don't want motion to be detected through the door window or something (my door that I'm picturing this example on is solid glass). It depends on your house set up though, like for me my garage is detached from my house, so I could use door sensors on the door to the garage, and also my back kitchen door, then do the same thing, if the back door opens it sets the variable to 1 for 30 seconds then back to 0. If the door to the garage (not the car door, the back door from my back yard) opens, and that variable is 1, we know that I came out the back kitchen door within the past 30 seconds, and therefore can tell the direction of movement. As others mentioned MobiLinc does geofencing as well, but that of course means your phone needs to be on and so on. It also doesn't help if you wanted to do more specific things like in my example, I could say if I open the back door, and within 30 seconds I open the garage door, then open the car door automatically. Etc. MobiLinc can't do that, as the geofencing is too large.

Well I'm assuming you didn't look up what his app does then since that seems like a weird question. His app is like MobiLinc or others, an iPad app to control the ISY from what I saw when I looked into it. If half my network is Z-Wave (locks, thermostat, some light switches and motion sensors), then why wouldn't that be a deal breaker for me? If I can use MobiLinc and have it show and control all my devices, then why would I pay $9.99 for another app if half the devices I own don't work in it? Not sure where you get that I don't need or want that, maybe you don't use Z-Wave but many of us do.

Awesome that worked thanks again!

Great thanks just wanted to make sure. Probably a program that turns it off is easiest right now, although I don't mind if there is delay. Just wanted to make sure it was acting as expected.

I don't really need any other apps at the moment personally, but Z-Wave support would be a deal breaker for me if I was getting something new. The ISY is the best Z-Wave controller hands down. In playing around, I've switched devices between Vera and the ISY so many times and the Vera literally takes forever to get things working. Exclude 50 times, add it, doesn't work, add again, doesn't configure properly, exclude, include, finally works, repeat for the other devices. The ISY you exclude, boom done. Include, boom done. That simple, even door locks and my ISY is like 20 feet away from the door in another room. Vera has to be practically touching the lock.

Getting stuck making this work. In my bathroom I have 2 motion sensors, one that covers all the bathroom, then a second aiming right at the shower to prevent it from turning off when someone is in there. I set it low, to turn off after 2 minutes. It works to keep the light on but what's the best way to turn the light off after 2 minutes of no motion at all? My programs are below but the Off one doesn't work, light never turns off I guess since the way I have it means both have to go off at the same time. I feel like this is easy but mind is blank, thanks!!! Motion On Master Bath Motion On - [iD 0023][Parent 0025] If Control 'System Devices / Master Bedroom and Bath / Motion Sensor-Sensor' is switched On Or Control 'System Devices / Master Bedroom and Bath / Z-Wave Shower Motion Sensor' is switched On Then Set Scene 'Scenes / Master Bathroom and Shower' On Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') Motion Off (Doesn't work, only with 1 sensor it does) Master Bath Motion Off - [iD 0024][Parent 0025] If Control 'System Devices / Master Bedroom and Bath / Z-Wave Shower Motion Sensor' is switched Off And Control 'System Devices / Master Bedroom and Bath / Motion Sensor-Sensor' is switched Off Then Wait 2 minutes Set Scene 'Scenes / Master Bathroom and Shower' Off Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')

Hi everyone, I'm trying to do a KPL button that is called "Evening Scene" which turns off some lights, sets others to 40%, 20% etc. When I used Indigo, I'd set the button to non-toggle ON. The KPL would stay off, and when I press it, it flashes 2 or 3 times and the scene starts then the button goes off. Using the ISY though the KPL light never turns off, it flashes 2 or 3 times but stays on. It's not the off level backlight, it's fully on as in the same way the button beside it which is toggle looks. Is that normal and would I make a scene with that button as the responder, and then say if that button is pressed, wait 1 second type thing and then turn it off? Or should it always go off?

Awesome thanks that worked. The video said specifically to click the scene name and not the devices or you are just changing them temporarily, so didn't even think of this. Makes sense now, thanks!

So I've never been able to do this in the months I've had the ISY. I just assumed I understood it wrong, until trying Indigo and realizing what an Insteon screne really is. What I'm trying to do is simple, a KPL button that when turned on, turns on the front foyer light, and when off turns it off. Hold it and it brightens and so on. That works fine, as in I made a scene with the keypad a controller and the front foyer a responder (tried also with the front foyer as a controller). When I do this, I can control the scene as expected, press the KPL and the light goes on, turn it off and it goes off. What never works though is setting it so that when I turn the scene on with the KPL, the light goes to 50% vs 100%. I followed this video to the letter and it just does not work. I click the name of the scene, not the devices, and on the lower part of my screen where it shows under Apply Changes to All devices, it shows the KPL with On Level 100, and the Front Foyer light with On Level 100. I changed it here to 50% like in the video, which dims it to 50%, but as soon as I press the KPL button it jumps up to 100, press it again and it's off, again it's 100 etc. The On Level stays at 50% in the scene though, it just always goes full on or off. It doesn't matter what light I try it with, they all do it, and as mentioned it's always done this, so at least 6 months, so I just thought I didn't understand it properly. I'm on 4.2.23, any ideas or what I might be doing wrong? Just a quick edit as well, if I right click the scene and select Scene Test, the front foyer light immediately goes to 50%. But if I press the KPL button it's the same old, right to 100%. Made another test scene with a swithclinc as a controller and another switchlinc a responder set to go on to 50%, and same thing, running the scene from the ISY works, but if I turn on the one switch, the other goes right to 100%.

Hey don't complain, I use Rogers in Canada, and the way ISY does SMS doesn't work at all. All I get is: ROGERS Email to Text notice. Reply with "READ" to read your message. Then you have to reply, and then it sends your message. There's no way to just have it send, since it sends them not as a text, but an email to some rogers text email address. I use Pushover instead, it's much better and sends it as a push notice, so if I'm roaming or in the US with my US SIM, I still get them unlike with SMS.

Maybe I'm not clear, there's no disaster here. The ISY controls all devices as expected and all scenes I had set up before the ISY put back to the way they were. Everything is working as expected, I just thought there'd be a way like Indigo where I could view the device links and remove or add them manually if necessary, like when I moved to Indigo, I could go in and remove anything the ISY created and so on. I just wanted to verify there weren't bad links hanging around but if I view the device links table in the ISY it's not very helpful as it lists them as the Insteon device ID vs their name, so have to hunt and match up what everything is referring to.

I was using the ISY, had all my devices linked to the PLM, all my scenes etc. I backed up the PLM and ISY, then wiped the PLM to factory as with all my devices and used Indigo for awhile where I made direct links and scenes. I then put the PLM back on the ISY, didn't touch any devices, and just did restore ISY from backup and restore PLM, I forget which basically all the restore options. Everything is working (as nothing was ever removed from the ISY in terms of old scenes etc), it's more I just have no way of knowing what other links still exist. Nothing was added again so Remove Links was never chosen as they all came back from the backup. So like my motion sensor still triggers motion, but then flashes the red LED forever indicating a com problem but I don't know what it's looking for. Same with another KPL button, I press it and my front foyer light dims, but in the ISY I do not have that indicated as a scene. I could make one then remove it, but it's more like other KPL buttons if I press one, 6 other lights change status, dim, brighten etc which were made in Indigo as direct device to device links (without the PLM) as Indigo lets you make scenes on the PLM, or device to device (such as lamp to KPL button). It's more those scenes that I have no way of modifying now without being able to view the links. Actually quick edit, all I had to do was plug the PLM back into Indigo and then view links on the devices. I can just manage and modify the old links there removing them so the ISY can make them.

Hi everyone, I was using Indigo for a bit and on it you can just click any device, view links, and modify them there. So to have a lamp turn on with KPL button 2, you'd just edit the KPL links, add the lamp as a responder on KPL group 2 for button 2, and pick the level you want it to go on. If you want to also have the front foyer light on, you do the same thing add it as a link with group 2, set the level etc. I'm using the ISY again and I didn't factory reset most devices because most scenes I made with Indigo are in the devices themselves. I did a restore of the ISY and things seem to work fine, but been going through the admin console and can't seem to find where I can manually view all links to delete junk ones or make changes? Like in my KPL lamp example above, I have that one still working, however the ISY doesn't have a scene for this so it doesn't know about it. I want to make ISY scenes for the ones currently created in the devices but I'm not sure how to actually view them. I tried doing Show Device Links table but it's just a bunch of numbers. When I'd do that on Indigo it would actually show the links as like "Living Room Lamp - Group 2 - 50%" etc. Either way it doesn't seem like I can even remove the links from this view. Is it safe to assume that I can't view/modify them from the ISY? Just would be nice to see the scenes in the ISY as I'm not going to factory reset all my devices as there's too many scenes created in them already. Thanks!

Is it possible to disable the green light that flashes on the KPL when I press a button? Thought it would be a setting in ISY but can't seem to find it.

Yeah I agree. I have these KPLs here because I have Hue lights under the counter and in the kitchen and they are super easy to control with their API from the ISY, so I have scenes and color schemes linked to various KPL buttons but I left a bunch blank because I know things will probably change daily around here.