CJVann

I've had this issue on a couple of low voltage items when using older ApplianceLincs (V1.3), even with Load Sense turned off. Sometimes they worked okay, other times they'd flash the load on & off repeatedly. I swapped them with newer ApplianceLincs (V4.1) and everything works fine now.

I set up an event to email me if any of the Insteon Motion sensors sent a low battery notification, but today one of them died without emailing me. I was expecing "Low Battery" to turn "ON". Does it turn "OFF" instead? The SH manual doesn't specify. The last run time and current status in the Admin Console were both blank. Maybe it got cleared when I upgraded to 2.7.2?? I was able to track the changes in HomeSeer, it says it received an "Off" on 2/27, BUT both of my motion sensors changed at the exact same moment. Can anyone shed some light on what's happening? This was only about 14 days after I installed them. Maybe this is from when I created the program, but why would that change the Low Bat status to "Off". I didn't install them at the same time. So confused... Thanks! HomeSeer Status: Off Front Motion-Low Bat Security 2/27/2009 9:43:28 PM Off Kitchen Motion-Low Bat Security 2/27/2009 9:43:28 PM False Low Battery Email ISY Program 2/27/2009 9:43:28 PM If Status 'Front Motion-Low Bat' is On Or Status 'Kitchen Motion-Low Bat' is On Then Send Notification to All Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')

Is there anything sent for special weather bulletins, such as "Tornado Warning"? Thank you for PM'ing and confirming that several stations around me do indeed provide light data - that will be a HUGE addition to my automated lighting!

Yes, I had read (further up) that the state of the keypad buttons would not be known following a power failure, and I was concerned about HomeSeer/ISY programs doing unexpected things when the power came back on if it didn't know the state of keypad buttons. Can't you just see "Sleep Mode" turning into "Party Mode" at 3AM when the lights blink off?? Sounds like you've already found the solution now that ISY queries keypad buttons on power up. Thanks!

Is there a better way to check weatherbug.com to find out what data would be available from various stations if I purchase the WB module? I specifically am very interested in Light data. I went to weatherbug.com and entered my zip code, but was unable to find "light" for any of the stations around the city. Every station showed the exact same options, such as temp, wind, and Wind Chill: 21°F Humidity: 67% Dew Point: 15°F Avg Wind: 2 SE Pressure: 30.37" Sunrise: 7:12 AM Sunset: 6:38 PM Rain/Month: 0.02" Moonphase Is there any additional data the plugin can access?

I have two buttons (lets call them B & C) that are mutually exclusive. If button B is on, and I turn on button C, then button B turns off as expected. As said above, ISY now thinks BOTH buttons are On because no "Off" was received. I know it was said above that secondary buttons cannot be querried, but I found that if I querry button "A", then ISY updates the status of buttons B & C, and now it knows B is off. Is there a way this could be updated automatically, or maybe since the ISY knows which buttons are mutally exclusive, it could change the state of the other buttons to "Off" when a mutually exclusive button is pressed "On"? I also would like to see the state of keypad buttons remembered on power failure. The power CONSTANTLY goes out here.

The Media Center Plugin they released this week doesn't require a unsername or password, maybe that would work for you if you have MC? http://forum.universal-devices.com/viewforum.php?f=16 You can skip 2 of the 4 "admins" by loging into the admin console directly, rather than going to "My Lighting" first. Either use UD's link to your ISY, or if you know your ISY IP address, just add "/admin" to it: http://www.universal-devices.com/99i/ http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/admin

Thanks Darrell, that trigger worked great. What do the "If control x is switched bright/dim" triggers do?

Actually, I was doing some testing on this trigger, and I can't get this program to trigger either. I tried dimming up, dimming down, dimming from full-On, brightening from full-Off... Maybe there's a bug? If Control 'Front: Lights' is switched Dim Then Set 'Kitchen: Light' On Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')

Thanks Rand - Maybe you can help me understand why this doesn't work. I would expect the light to dim to 35% after 1 minute UNLESS I turn it off or dim it at the switch. Then I'd expect it to stay at whatever level I set it to. Turning it off does what I'd expect, it turns off and stays off. But if I dim the light, the program continues to Run and stays "True", then dims to 35% after the 1 minute is up. If Control 'Front: Lights' is not switched Dim And Control 'Front: Lights' is not switched Off And Control 'Front: Lights' is not switched Fast Off Then Set 'Front: Lights' On Wait 1 minute Set 'Front: Lights' 35% Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')

Use a program as a flag (it can even be an empty program). When you (or another program) execute the "Run Then" the program becomes True, and when you "Run Else" it becomes False. Other programs can then use this flag as a trigger. (I believe programs are all set "False" on boot-up, so use caution.) Additionally, from the Program Summary tab you can manually set a program/flag to True or False by right clicking it. You can also Enable or Disable a program in the same way, so it doesn't run automatically.

If you are turning the LED on via a scene, use "If Status 'KeypadLinc Button' is On". This will trigger whenever the LED is on, whether turned on via a scene or by a physical key press. I just tried this in an event because I was worried that it would constantly trigger while it was "On", but it only triggered once.

When you highlight a scene in the Admin Console, it would be nice if the Current State list (top) also showed the current state of the LEDs along with the other devices in the scene. I guess it depends on personal preference.

I have been very impressed with the ISY. and now I can't imagine life without it. I've offloaded a lot of HS's responsibilities to the ISY and found it to be far more reliable than a computer. Your line of thought is very clever (X10 dialog between HS & ISY), but I think you'll find HS's ISY Insteon plug-in quite useful. You do not have to create any Insteon devices in HS - the plugin automatically loads all devices, scenes, AND ISY programs from the ISY into HS. HS can then run ISY programs, enable/disable ISY programs, set ISY Flags true/false, and show the status of your Insteon devices & programs. Response times will be faster if you send a direct Insteon command rather than launching a program by sending an X10 command. Without it, I imagine that trying to keep X10 device status synchronized with Insteon device status would be difficult too (Is it dim, was it turned "Fast On", did the status change when HS wasn't running, etc).

That's correct. You cannot directly turn on/off non-load buttons. They show up in the Admin Console so you can name the buttons for program references, create mutually exclusive buttons, and set mode (toggle/non). If you want to control the buttons (turn on/off the LED) you need to create a Scene with that button in it, and control it via the scene.

My kitchen over-the-cabinet lights were turned on/off by motion only (uses a LampLinc). I wrote 2 programs so that whenever the main kitchen light is off, pressing "off" again will toggle the cabinet lights between on & off. This takes about 2 seconds to respond. Is this normal, or is there something that can be changed to speed it up? I see Insteon traffic right away when I press the light switch - maybe it's doing a query instead of going by ISY's status? Program 1 (To toggle the light OFF) If ( Control 'Kitchen: Light' is switched Off Or Control 'Kitchen: Slave' is switched Off ) And Status 'Kitchen Light' is Off And Status 'Kitchen Cabinet Lights' is On Then Set 'Kitchen Cabinet Lights' Fast Off Program 2 (To toggle the light ON) If ( Control 'Kitchen: Light' is switched Off Or Control 'Kitchen: Slave' is switched Off ) And Status 'Kitchen Light' is Off And Status 'Kitchen Cabinet Lights' is Off Then Set 'Kitchen Cabinet Lights' On

Edit: I made an incorrect statement and didn't want to confuse anyone, so I'm removing this message (original message show in next post below)

Oops - I skipped over the "unlinking" section of the Motion sensor quick start guide, as I planned to do all that via ISY. Great updates to the Wiki.

Oh wow, I never noticed the "Set Options" button. You can set the Timeout, LED brightness, and Darkness sensitivity. Very cool - thank you. Whenever I put a motion sensor into set mode, they don't exit out normally like they do if you are linking to a device. If I press the set button once more, they go into a double-flash mode. Pressing once more exits, but I've been very curious what that mode is/does!

Thanks for the explanation. SH's docs said Jumper 4 will disable the automatic countdown Off, and the LED will flash every 8 seconds during motion...so I expected it to operate similar to the X10 motion sensors and send an "ON" every 8 seconds while motion continues. I called SH tech support - they said that in either mode, you must have a 1-minute period of no motion before the next "ON" will be sent. He did say you can change the one-minute of no motion down to as low as 30 seconds, but it can only be done in their HouseLinc software.

I have an Insteon motion sensor in "On Only" mode so I can trigger an event with every "ON" command received, rather than wait until motion has stopped for 1 minute to retrigger. I cannot get the ISY to recognize the "ON" commands (Unless it goes from Off-to-On, which is never in this mode). There are 2 "If" triggers, but they seem to do the same thing for some reason. If Status Motion-Sensor is On or Control Motion-Sensor is Switched On

Ah! I guess I had never clicked on a controller inside a scene before. That's pretty cool - thank you for the info. I thought I had really messed something up to end up with a scene within a scene - lol.

I'm confused on how a motion sensor works in a scene. I created a scene with the motion "sensor" as the controller, and a light as the responder. The scene itself shows one ramp rate for the light, and the motion sensor in the scene shows yet another ramp rate for the light. I've found that setting the ramp rate of the light within the scene has no effect on the light. You can only set the ramp rate by setting the ramp rate of the light of the motion sensor of the scene. Scene: - Member #1: Light with ramp rate #1 - Member #2: Motion Sensor with Ramp rate #2 for the light above

If a folder does not have a condition statement, it is not shown listed in the "Program Summary"... so it's status cannot be set.

I have a "Holiday" folder. After decorating for various holidays or parties, I want to manually enable the folder so it runs the programs in it every day until I disable it again. However, because the "IF" program statement is blank for the folder, it does not show up under the "Program Summary" tab, so the folder cannot be manually enabled. Is this a bug, or is there another way to manually enable folders?