smithlevenson

Thank you for the detailed response. I upgraded to 5.0.16A sometime late 2020 early 2021. I never really had problems with it at the change over (other than the power on level of the lights changing with what time it was). I do have some yellow status "Out of Memory" that were for some old programs that aren't used any more (I think they were tied to an old node server, but could be mistaken). None of the programs in question are related to the yellow programs. I have replaced my PLM once a few years back, but that could be it. Noise would be weird too, but possible. I will grab another PLM to be on the safe side. I might try to upgrade the firmware again and see if that helps.

I wonder if there is a difference between. "'Upstairs / Master Bath / Master Bathroom Fan' Status is On" and "'Upstairs / Master Bath / Master Bathroom Fan' is switched On" I doubt this is causing the problem, but the programs were all written for firmware v4. I figure the less unintentional mistakes the better, right?

Master Bath Fan Cutoff - [ID 0007][Parent 000C] If 'Upstairs / Master Bath / Master Bathroom Fan' is switched On Then Wait 15 minutes Set 'Upstairs / Master Bath / Master Bathroom Fan' Off Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')

I did a power cycle. Nothing changed. I just started a reboot from the my.isy page.

Firmware and UI v.5.0.16A EDITED the version Number

Hey All, I am having problems with Programs that haven't been touched in years. For some reason a few are not responding anymore. I haven't made any major changes to the system or network. The Last Run timestamps don't make very much sense for a lot of the programs, but the ones that aren't working are showing no timestamps at all. They will run if I right click and Run (Then). It is a mix of battery and wired switches. I power cycled the ISY, but nothing changed. It is definitely running a few programs correctly, but the majority are not running at all or are showing run when I know they didn't. Oh intermittent issues, how I love you.... Thanks for any suggestions.

This worked when the admin console icon was deleted off my desktop after upgrading to ISY v5. Thanks, Smith

I have been having some weirdness pop up into my system recently. Scenes seem to be the big one, but I have had issues with status' in the Mobilinc app too. My scenes have not been completing or responding incorrectly a bunch. I think I have a couple of faulty Fanlinc's that aren't helping, but it feels like issues are popping up everywhere. I have heard about PLM issues a bunch in this forum, but haven't had any in the 5 years since I bought it. Does this sound like a PLM issue? Does it normally just die? Should I be debugging elsewhere? My wife is seriously going to kill me, buying something else after the carnage that was Black Friday.

It seems like it will work. Thanks for the info. It does not work for my variable based Programs (It asks to turn the variable to 0-100%), but I switched it to the direct program isy category and it works. The scene isy category works the fastest for sure. All in all it should be acceptable.

Has this been improved at all? I have pretty complex series of events that take place when I enter my office. I would love to be able to say things like "Alexa, I want to exercise" instead of "Alexa, Turn Exercise On", or "Alexa, I want to work" etc. "Trigger" sucks just as bad for this.

P.S. GC does have a database of IR Commands. https://irdb.globalcache.com/Home/Database

I have a calendar of all my favorite sports and events. I would like to tell Alexa to "Turn on Sports" and have a program check the schedule of who is playing at that time and tune into that channel. Just kind of a no brainer way of watching what I want, especially since the channel guide is hard to control via IR and Alexa. I will probably make a command program since that has been the most stable program I have used for sending REST commands.

Thanks for all the replies. I have the global cache and it Uses Alexa voice commands to switch a state variable and trigger programs that use the network module to send a command to the global cache and received by thee relevant AV component as an IR command. That part works perfectly. I just need some program or other that changes a state variable to say 884 if that days game is on channel 884. I have everything handled from that part on (and yes it is hundreds of programs to control the IR). I guess this is better handled with an outside program and use REST to change the variable to that number. I was just trying to avoid the always running trap so I didn't get a program crash and the variable doesn't get updated. I used the ISY for IR mainly to avoid the "multiple points of control" issue that I think we all get with each new interconnected device and some dumb ones (like my projector) I also wanted to make sure things like having the Projector turn off if no motion is detected for 2+ hours to save the bulb works reliably. I have had very few issues with the global cache IR portion. In fact it works well once all the programs are written.

OK. This may end up being too big of a pain in the *** to implement (ie if each date has to be its own variable), but what I am trying to do is have the ISY look up the date of a sports program and automatically change the cable box to that channel. I have a table of the dates and channels, and I have Alexa working fine changing to the Name or Number of any particular channel. So what I need to figure out is how to have a variable check an external source for the channel and save that into memory of the variable so Alexa can access it. Am I trying to do something that can't be done succinctly?

Awesome! Thanks for making me feel stupid.

So I am having Trouble with Alexa. She turns on devices fine, but is having trouble with State Variables. I followed the following directions: Log into ISY Portal (my.isy.io), click on My Profile at the top right corner Choose your ISY from Preferred ISY drop down Click on Link this profile to an Amazon account Under Select Tool choose Connectivity | Amazon Echo and enter mappings between your devices, scenes, programs, and state variables to their associated and desired spoken names Login to the Echo app Click on the Smart Home menu item on the left navigation bar Under Your Smart Home Skills, click on Get More Smart Home Skills Search for ISY Click the Enable button next to ISY Optimized for Smart Home V2 Click on the Smart Home menu item on the left navigation bar again make sure ISY Optimized for Smart Home shows up under Your Smart Home Skills Click on Discover Devices. This will bring in all the devices you have created a mapping for in your ISY Portal Please note that every time you change spoken fields, you must redo the previous step The State Variables are showing up as devices in the Alexa App as "Test". When I tell Alexa to "Tell Izzy to turn Test on". She responds with "I am unable to turn on the statevar test" (confirmed in the app). The State Variable in ISY is ALEXATEST and in the portal it is set to Off-0 and On-1, spoken word Test. I am a little confused and can't find anything else about this problem. Hopefully someone else has had this problem.

This might be a little off topic but I wasn't able to get a straight answer before and had seen it asked a few times. I was able to run a straight stereo cable from the output of the Global Cache IP2IR and straight into the receiver port of my BAFX IR repeater. This avoided the awkward, unreliable, transmit to IR emitter and capture from the IR receiver that I was forced to deal with on the Insteon 2411T debacle. I am planning on using Alexa to send the IR commands, but haven't fully tested the set-up.

Sorry for the very late reply. I moved away from the proximity and towards Alexa. I just tell her where what I want and she does what I need. The only other proximity project I am working on is a key fob system. That is mainly hardware though. I can send you some snippets of code I was working with to make the detection possible if you like. I think it is in Python. It was pretty straightforward.

Just wondering. The permissions list are so vague that there is no telling what they want. I personally liked a disclaimer I found once that talked about the company being morally opposed to collecting, selling, or otherwise abusing personal information.

Just curious. Why do you need access to Contacts?

kck I messaged you. I will send you the config.txt file too. I left most of it alone because when I tried to remove everything I got some errors about MainChain and SecondaryChain so I figured they couldn't be left empty.

If you want to send me your rest/nodes so I can see how it translates over. I just want to make sure the error is not on my side.

Thanks for the quick response kck! There is probably no way to come up with every eventuality of a program you didn't create. I commend you on your efforts. I am having a pretty hard time with the config file and getting it to load. I keep ending up with a Daemon died error, but the Pi screen turns off too fast for me to see what the error is. I am trying to keep it real simple, but I must not be reading the usage notes correctly. Let me know if you have some time to debug it with me.

Hey kck, I got the screen and installed your program (very impressive install package by the way) and just started messing around with it. I noticed that you use https (to protect the plain text user:pass in the config.txt I assume). I am getting a cert warning here because I haven't updated my self signed cert yet. but I then run into an error. I had two disabled devices in the ISY that I think caused the following error. Once I deleted them the error cleared. Traceback (most recent call last): File "console.py", line 83, in <module> config.ISY = isy.ISY(config.ISYrequestsession) File "/home/pi/consolestable/isy.py", line 220, in __init__ n = Node(node['@flag'], node['name'], node['address'], int(node['parent']['@type']), KeyError: 'parent' I think they kick back the error because they don't have a parent listed like all the other nodes. Just FYI. I am working through a few more issues, but I will try and solve them before I hit you back up.

Totally off topic, but I switched from wire nuts to WAGO Pushwire connectors. I think I am in love. I know, I know that the surface area of the push in connectors is much less than the wire nuts, but for a 4 fan installs over my head 10' ceilings with a small box they were life savers. I was able to make cleaner connections with less bulk on the 6 - 14 AWG wires. They also flex into smaller spaces when they aren't all twisted up in a bundle. I may live to regret it, but those things are amazing for speed and accuracy. I am ordering in bulk for my neutral wire connections. (At least it was my topic to go off of ; )