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I just bought and am trying to set up the "new" Elk-7TS touchscreen keypad. I would like to try to get it so that I could check the status of a few lights or devices and potentially turn them on and off. I have tried creating some "lights" inside of the ElkRP2 and I can see these on the touchscreen, which is great, but none of them do anything. they need configuration. I believe that these should somehow make nodes in my Polisy but I haven't been able to figure out how to do so. I tried setting the nodeserver to "ELKID" and putting some "ELKID=4" in notes for devices but that didn't work either. any suggestions?

@oberkc: will you please reply here when you find out if polisy will work?

I’m not completely sure what that means but I’d ask if I have a matter device that has a a WiFi connection then it should work?

Is the Matter integration up and running? Can in buy a matter device and expect it to connect to my PolISY?

@Techman adding <BR> to make an "enter" in the email did not do anything (other than put a "<BR>" into the translation email. any other suggestions?

@dbwarner5 WOW!!!!😁 Your post was so very helpful!!! (yes, I'm just getting around to working on this again.) It is interesting how the nodes all work. the only things I was not able to figure out are: 1) what is the syntax for the variable for the true/false status of a program? 2) currently, I'm using email. how can I get the email to have new lines. even with all of these data points on separate lines, the readout in an email is all run together:

@Techman wow, is this a tough project. here is the "customized content" that i'm trying to get working: i'm still working through them but the only thing that works is the first line. specifically, the "On_Vacation" is the name of a variable (and it doesnt work) and the "n010..." is the name of the nodeserver node for my ecobee thermostat. any suggestions?

On Vacation? - [ID 00D4][Parent 0066][Not Enabled] If - No Conditions - (To add one, press 'Schedule' or 'Condition') Then - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') so, in my customized email, I tried this and it doesn't work: On Vacation? ${sys.node.00D4.status} ${sys.program.00D4.status} I appreciate help.

okay, I'm stuck right here: (the first step 😁😞 http://admin:password@192.168.1.105/rest (where password is substituted for my password) I've tried this is my browsers and they don't accept it. any suggestions?

I'm trying to create a custom email notification for when I am on vacation that tells me what is going on at my house. here is what I have so far and I think the first line will work fine, but the rest needs work: the problem is, I'm not sure what parts of these "variables" need to be changed and if so, to what. I guess I need a kindergartner level of explanation. for the "On Vacation", I have a program called "on vacation?" and I'd like to know if that is true or false. I presume I need to swap out the pound sign to something but I don't know what to swap it to. for the others, they're all nodes, some are insteon devices, specifically.

@rick.curl have pushover but I’m not sure how to use it to send me a button (or link). How would I do that? @Guy Lavoie do you (or does anyone) know where there is a tutorial that shows how to make a “get” http message? I think it’ll need a password and I think I recall that browsers often block those.

I'd like to have my IoX (Polisy) send me a text message that I can click on the link in it (or a button would be more slick) to accomplish something. how could I do that? I was thinking the old REST system might accomplish this but I'm not sure if it still works as I haven't used it or heard mention of it for years.

what would you suggest I change the polling numbers to? I think the most important data points, at least for me, are: battery charge percentage, if homelink is nearby, and the interior / exterior temperatures.

@CoolToys I appreciate your efforts to help me. How many retries worked best for you?

@CoolToys the reason they are all "not enabled" is that I call them from other programs. I find switches "on" according to the console when they aren't fairly often. I guess I have a noisy land-line. when I notice a light is off when it should be on, I'll look in the admin console and it will say that it is on. I will then query it and it will switch to off in the console.