Deane Johnson

I'm also finding I don't need the word "turn" and if using a percentage, don't need the words "turn on". If I just say "Alexa, kitchen on" they respond, or "kitchen 100%".

And indeed, that worked perfect for updating my Cooper Aspire as a Secondary. I no longer need to put it in SmartThings as I now have Portal which works great. EDIT: I just tried it with Smart Things and it also worked properly.

I have the Portal running, the UUID information in place, but I get the message that the ISY is not on-line. I have the URL provided by ISY when I enabled Internet Access, but I can't find any place to enter it in the Portal. So, how do I get the Portal to stop showing "ISY is not on-line". EDIT: Holy crap, Batman. I got it all working. Once I figured out things by reading through various threads, it turns out the Portal is a nice GUI to work with.

I didn't find a way to link ISY to SmartThings. What I did was use the Join An Existing Network feature in the SmartThings App, which apparently didn't work. I believe I remember doing that with the previous Z-Wave network and it working well, but I may have that wrong. Memory fails the aged. I'm capable of overlooking a single step and ruining the process. Apparently I should proceed with the approach recommended in the Link your provided. What I want to avoid is any extra verbiage such as required in the Amazon Skill Sets requiring you to say "Alexa, tell ISY to tell . . ." I did that with Echo talking to CQC and found that Alexa has trouble understanding that many additional words. I'm using the Insteon Hub with 3 bedroom lamps and the minimal verbiage required gives me almost 100% reliability. All I have to say is "Alexia, bedroom lights 80%" and it works every time. No need for adding "turn on the". Simplicity with Echo is the key to reliability, IMO. My replacement Z-Wave dimmer for the one that slowed the Z-Wave down is due today. Once that's installed I can move onto integrating ISY with Echo. I like to do one thing at a time so when I hit a problem, I know exactly where it occurred. BTW, I did learn how to create a Secondary Controller with ISY. I was able to make my Cooper Aspire a Secondary. Seems to work out well.

With my old Z-Wave network created with Leviton RFIT, I simply used SmartThings/Settings/Connected Home/Discover devices. They immediately appeared on the Alexa list and I could operate Z-Wave lighting with the simple command "Alexa..turn the table lamp off". No big deal to make it work. I had previously used the SmartThings mobile app to discover the Z-Wave network. My new Z-Wave network is created with ISY as Primary. I have linked ISY to SmartThings. I can't get the same procedure to end up in Echo to work. Do I need to make SmartThings a Secondary controller, I've forgotten if I had to do that previously. I can't find a place in the Administrative Console to create Secondary Controllers. Does such a feature exist? Love ISY, just learning my way around at this point.