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I am not taking sides here, but let me note the following..... I am in my mid-sixties and consider myself a low-sophisticated amateur techie. I use ISY 5.0.11B with about 60 Zwave devices, connected to Google Home with the ISY Portal. I installed about half of the switches etc myself and the others with help from a professional electrician. I understand nothing of variables, Raspberry or Polyglot. Though I added Mobilinc Pro on my wife's and son's Iphones, they do not use it. They have no access to the Administrative Console and would neither know or want to use it. The only use my wife makes of my setup is to open and close the curtains in our bedroom through Google Home. She will not even change the Nest Thermostat settings through Google Home. My big concern is that if anything happens to me, nobody in my family would know how to change my ISY programs and settings. My point is that home automation is mostly limited to techies and to those with lots of money who can afford having Control4 installed by a professional. Home automation will really take off when non-techies (my wife and sons) will be able to use it without even thinking about it. I am however optimistic that we will soon (a few years) get there, but it is the challenge for UDI, Homeseer, Smarthings etc to break out to achieve the use by more than us techies.

Todd, this may not exactly resolve your issue, but you could create programs setting the lights at a certain percentage. In Google Home you could even create shortcuts with useful names for such programs.

My only suggestion (maybe someone else has a better solution...) is to use 2 Mimo-lites.

Until your post I did not know about the 'repeat after me', but what is the purpose ? I DO agree with you on having the callable feature on Broadcast or Repeat after me.....

fahrer16, do you use Android or IOS ? I am trying to understand what Allonis would do for me, using Windows, MAC and IOS at what is indeed pretty pricey.

FYI I installed my automatic curtains two weeks ago using the Mimo-lite rather than the Mimo2. They work fine including status reporting.

This touches on my request / suggestion for the Mimo-lites that control my curtains. Instead of ON or OFF, I would like to see OPEN or CLOSED in the AC. As I have noted elsewhere in the ISY forum, it is not a big issue as I was able to create a shortcut in Google Home, allowing me to use Open and Close.

Without the ability to control ZWave lights, fans, curtains, etc, I see no reason to switch from Mobilinc. I was able to download the App on my Iphone but no devices show up (logically as I have no Insteon devices, nor the other mentioned above).

Is that possible ?

i get it... Rice is your cooker's first name.

We cook our rice in an ordinary pan.

I seem to have found a way.... It consists of 2 programs (1) IF Motion detector is switched On AND Laundry light is OFF Then set Laundry Light ON RUN Program X (Then Path) (2) Program X {Nothing in IF} THEN wait 2 minutes set laundry light off If the laundry light was already On, then the motion will have no impact on the laundry light.

I proclaimed victory too quickly..... The program gets the laundry light to switch on upon motion detection but it does not switch off at all. I have tried different times, from 15 seconds to 5 minutes (to exceed the time the motion detector remains on), but I just do not get the light to go off after a set time.

That makes sense, but consider getting Zwave when you need to add or replace devices.

Something, somehow, may be possible through using the shortcut option in the Google App.

H Have you thought about switching to Zwave ?

I think that it now works. Silly me forgot to enable the program

Stu, I am not sure that I want a Trojan Horse in on our bet

The bet is that before July 2018 there will be a ZWave equivalent for Fanlinc...... and lunch on me when you are in Miami

I understand Stu. As I said earlier, part of our comments is based on personal experience, needs and preferences. In French they 'les gouts et les couleurs ne se discutent pas' (One should not discuss taste and colors). In other words, there is no right answer to personal preferences. I see the multitude of suppliers in Zwave more as a positive, and you see it more as a negative (because of the different features and settings). I agree that Zwave does not yet have an equivalent to Insteon for fan control, but I bet you that this will come soon.

What about creating a scene and name it for example 'master bedroom', and then set, if necessary, a shortcut in GH with names like master bedroom ON and master bedroom off ?

No luck

Unfortunately it does not work.....

Larry Does this (see attachments) make sense ?

Stu, A monopoly is not necessarily a legal condition. Maybe other companies could use the Insteon patent and sell competing products, but because there is no other seller of Insteon products, for us consumers this is a monopoly.