rehills

I upgraded to V3 tonight, following the instructions and now, in the Amazon Echo app, I see at least two versions of every device. I see one that looks like this: Den Ceiling Light ISY Dimmable device address XX XX XX XX and den ceiling light Den Ceiling Light Is that the expected behavior? I assume the second one is for the spoken phrase but, what is the first one? I think Alexa is getting stumped by having various devices with the same name. Rick

I first noticed the issue because my Echo would not control any of my lights. I checked the ISY portal and it showed that my ISY was connected but, it couldn't display logs or show devices. I cycled the power on the ISY but that didn't help. Everything is working fine now.

I hesitated to say anything tonight because of my false alarm the other day.

Apologies for the false alarm. It appears to be a problem with my iPhone. None of the browsers or Mobilinc would connect to the ISY portal. MobiLinc was complaining about a connection issue. I did a hard reboot of the phone and all is well.

https://my.isy.iois not responding.

Can't connect to the portal.

I have had great success using the ISY and Network Resources to control my Insteon (Foscam) cameras. For instance, when I say "Alexa, Set Home On" all of the cameras stop roaming and point to the ceiling. When I say "Alexa, Set Away On", the cameras point to their preset positions. Example: Point to ceiling (predefined Foscam camera position #8 POST /decoder_control.cgi?command=45&user=xxxxx&pwd=xxxxx HTTP/1.1 See stuviews Foscam IP Camerca CGI Guide above for more details. Example: http://<IP_CAM>/decoder_control.cgi?command=30&user=<user>&pwd=<pass> = Set the preset 0 command values: 0 up 1 Stop up 2 down 3 Stop down 4 left 5 Stop left 6 right 7 Stop right ... Reserved 25 center 26 Vertical patrol 27 Stop vertical patrol 28 Horizon patrol 29 Stop horizon patrol 30 Set preset 0 31 Go preset 0 32 Set preset 1 33 Go preset 1 34 Set preset 2 35 Go preset 2 .... 62 Set preset 16 63 Go preset 16 And the list goes further until preset 16 94 IO output high 95 IO output low

There are a couple threads in the portal forum talking about overnight portal issues. A quick ISY reboot solved the problem for me.

Thank you, Scott. That made my morning.

Turn the TV up louder.

I voted. I'd love to have a choice. For me, half the fun of owning an Echo is the human like interaction. That's part of the wow factor when you show it to someone for the first time. I can't be the only one who dreamed of having my own HAL9000. HAL, turn off the kitchen lights. I'm sorry Rick, I'm afraid I can't do that.

As long as it doesn't interfere with an Amazon drone bringing me my wine.

Couldn't agree more.

In my mind, they were NTP updates but, I don't want to lead you astray. I wish I would have taken a screen shot before I rebooted the ISY. I don't think it was a program loop because I only have a couple programs and they are extremely simple - turning on devices - with no looping or programs calling other programs. I will try switching to 1.us.pool.ntp.org. Rick

Hey folks. I saw something strange this past weekend and I wanted to run it by everyone to see if it was a known issue. I was playing around with my ISY, writing new programs and using the ISY portal to add spoken nodes and devices to the Echo. I started noticing severe performance issues with the portal. When I would click the device or program button, it would take 1-2 minutes for the dialog box to pop up. I wrote it off as a comm issue between the portal and Amazon but, shortly after, I realized that my ISY was responding very slow to anything I did in the Administration Console. Switching tabs in the console would take 60 seconds or more. Performance was rapidly deteriorating and the response time was getting exponentially worse. For some reason, I had the foresight to open the event viewer. What I saw was what appeared to be an endless stream of incoming time update messages. I wish I would have had the brains to capture a screen shot or save the log but I was in a panic. I rebooted the ISY and quickly went into the System tab and unchecked the "enable NTP check every 24 hours" option. It's been fine ever since but, I am no longer updating time. I was using pool.ntp.org My firmware and UI are both v.4.3.26 Anyone seen this before? Rick