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I've got them set like this: how do those settings affect the behavior? I think I found the problem though. maybe I spoke too soon. I found a program that was changing the "climate type" to away but it wasn't showing up in the Programs > Summary page, as far as I can tell.

I am having a problem with my "vacation" setting in the ecobee. when I set a vacation inside of the ecobee app, then the thermostat goes into vacation mode and then my ISY somehow changes it to "away" mode and this fouls up the temperature settings. I have proven that it is the ISY doing so because when I stop the Ecobee nodeserver in Polyglot, the problem doesn't happen. I've looked through all of my programs and I can't figure out how it could be doing this because I don't have any commands of this type. any suggestions?

@Jimbo.AutomatesI appreciate your help with this great nodeserver. I am having one snag: even though I can control my lights with the Elk keypad, the keypad and the elk system aren't getting updated on what the status of the lights is when I change the lights using any other method than the Elk system itself. how can I address that?

@Jimbo.Automates: I got my lights imported to my Elk system and there is good news and bad news: now, when I try to turn the lights on or off with the M1, it works! and it is instantaneous! but, when I turn the lights on with any other means, the M1 doesn't know that the lights are on. here are a few other comments I have that could help others get through this process. 1) there is an "export" button in the Elk Nodeserver in the Admin Console. it is confusing because that is not the "export" that is used to export the data from the ISY (to later import into ElkRP2. 2) when using the "ELKID" method there cannot be anything else in the "notes" than the ELKID=x. also there cannot be anything in the "location" which is right above the "notes" in the admin console. 3) Scenes don't work using this ELKID method, which is unfortunate but not surprising. 4) In ElkRP2, the "import" that is necessary is found in the "lighting" area by right clicking it and then selecting "import lighting data".

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.

I am noticing that my data stops updating after some period of time, maybe a week or so, after I "authenticate" the nodeserver in the PG3x console. once the data gets frozen, in the debug file, it says "Token Expired", and re-authenticating it fixes the problem. any suggestion as to how to avoid having to re-authenticate it routinely?

have you tried restarting the nodeserver in the PG3x panel? also: try restarting your admin console, maybe even need to delete your java cache.

@Techman I appreciate the help. The second article says to use a keypadlinc to watch for flashes with insteon traffic. are there other devices that will flash with traffic? @others: I appreciate the frank assistance. you are right. I need to solve the problem and stop the armchair "solution" attempts. Thank you!!

I have a few insteon devices that are pretty mediocre at communicating, for reasons I've intermittently looked into for years and haven't been able to solve, so I came up with a workaround a while back. the problem I'll have is that a light (usually an outdoor light that is turned on by a program) is not on when it is supposed to be and the admin console says that it is on when it isn't. my solution is three programs: malibu stubborn ON - [ID 003A][Parent 017D][Not Enabled] If 'Outside / Malibu-Garage' Status is On Or 'Outside / Malibu-NE Corner' Status is On Or 'Outside / Outdoor Fountain Light' Status is On Then Set 'Outside / Malibu-Garage' Query Set 'Outside / Malibu-NE Corner' Query Set 'Outside / Outdoor Fountain Light' Query Wait 1 minute Run Program 'malibu stubborn ON 2' (If) malibu stubborn ON 2 - [ID 003B][Parent 017D][Not Enabled] If 'Outside / Malibu-Garage' Status is not On Or 'Outside / Malibu-NE Corner' Status is not On Or 'Outside / Outdoor Fountain Light' Status is not On Then Run Program 'malibu stubborn ON 3' (Then Path) malibu stubborn ON 3 - [ID 0188][Parent 017D][Not Enabled] If - No Conditions - (To add one, press 'Schedule' or 'Condition') Then Stop program 'malibu stubborn OFF' Stop program 'malibu stubborn OFF 2' Stop program 'malibu stubborn OFF 3' Set 'Outside / Malibu-Garage' On Set 'Outside / Malibu-NE Corner' On Set 'Outside / Outdoor Fountain Light' On Set '.Scenes / Malibu Lights' On Wait 5 seconds Run Program 'malibu stubborn ON' (Then Path) does anyone have any better suggestions?

@apostolakisl: I had a similar problem recently where none of my data was updating. I was able to fix it by using the "autheticate" button in PG3x and this fixed the issue.

I have found, a few times lately, that different Nodes have Data in the PG3x but all of the data is blank in the Admin Console. I've tried rebooting and reinstalling the plugin to no avail. is there a simple way to just delete the node inside the Admin Console and then somehow nudge it to reload the Load to get a working connection? (for reference, this is now happening with the "Land Rover" plugin.)