Bob P.

Also note that if you access the Admin Console through the ISY Portal, you need to use your Portal login info, not the username and password stored on your ISY.

Or, just say "Alexa, Discover Devices."

It's counterintuitive, but generally, You don't want to enable Internet access to access the ISY remotely over the Internet. To test internet access, you should use the global IP address (e.g. 71.87.242.63) instead of the local one (e.g.193.60.0.1) to access the Admin Console from the Finder.

"Alexa, What is SOAP?" (Sorry, I have no idea what SOAP is.)

Hi Memphis, If you have a DynDNS address set up, you don't need Mobilinc Connect for Geofence notifications, and you don't want Mobilinc to go through the ISY Portal. Just point your ML at the DynDNS, and don't use any portal settings. Set Mobilinc to send Geofence Notifications and it should work. My setup includes Mobilinc, ISY Portal, DynDNS, and Echo (Connected Home, not Skills). Everything plays well together. I paid for the discounted DynDNS five-year subscription, so I'm not in a hurry to scrap it. Although I don't need to use it, here's my "Geofence Coming and Going Program. If you can't get the native ML notifications to work, you can try it: If $Bobs_iPhone_Geofence is 0 Then Send Notification to 'Bob Text' content 'Left Home' Else Send Notification to 'Bob Text' content 'Arrived Home'

I agree Ron, There doesn't seem to be a good reason to use the Skill at all with Connected Home.

Mobilinc geofences don't seem to work with the portal, so I left the Mobilinc configured with my DynDNS address. Everything seems to work well together.

Some users here say that Alexa understands all of the voice controls for Connected Home, and others are having difficulty. Could some of you lucky ones compile a listing of the successful syntax being used to control devices, scenes, and programs? I'll keep an updated list here. Please let me know if any of this is inaccurate or doesn't work well. Thanks, Bob On/Off: Alexa, Turn On/Off <Device/Scene/Program> (Note: For programs On=Then, Off=Else) Alexa, (Turn) (the) < Device/Scene/Program > On/Off On Level: Alexa, <Device> 30 Alexa, (Set) (the) <Device> to 30 Alexa, Dim/Brighten <Device> Alexa, <Device> Brighter Alexa, Raise <Device> Alexa, <Device> Dimmer Alexa, <Device> Lower Other: Alexa, Discover Devices - Gets device spoken names from the Portal Words like "Music", "Radio", "Volume" "Play"or any radio station numbers/call sign collide with Echo's built in functionality and don't work. For example, "Alexa, Playroom Lamp 40" gives a reply "I couldn't find room Lamp."

Now That's the kind of quality service that we've come to expect from UDI ! Thanks!

Tim, I use Mobilinc without using Connect. I think the main function of Connect is to find your ISY if your ISP changes your IP address. The ISY Portal should take care of that. Geofence notifications work without Connect. I'm not sure about other notifications.

I guess it was a bad idea to name my kids Alexa and Echo.

I figured it was something like that. Thanks. Bob

Yes, just the email. I don't see much benefit to applying a timeout, since it would be on a local machine.

That only seems to work with the finder though. If I use that as a browser URL, I just get a listing of the xml code.

I appreciate (from experience) that this stuff can be frustrating to work with. That being said, you'd be hard-pressed to find a forum with better support than UDI provides. It's easy to take for granted the outstanding responsiveness and support from these guys. I guess if there were 27 hours in a day, they could use the last two hours to compile their best advice into sticky notes. Keep up the good work!