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Thinking. They host raspberry pi's online... how much a month would someone pay for a hosted Polisy with SSH access? 💰🦾😂

Thx Guy. I'll message with the details.

I have an original blue-box Polisy with power adapter and 3D printed wall mount plate that's looking for a new home. I've migrated everything to the eisy now and I hate to stuff it into a storage box. Donated as-is, the firmware will need a re-flash since it's old and had more than a little SSH jiggery-pokery. Cover the shipping and it's yours. ✈️ 5/21 Update: It found a home, thanks, community. (Please let me know if it's not ok to post this here.)

Thanks Bob. I'm also tweaking my IsyJson gateway to decode Unicode from Isy. Ex, formatted=: <property name="Feels Like" prec="1" uom="17" formatted="80.4&#xb0;F" value="804" id="CLITEMP"/> Didn't realize that's the serialization format for the UD Java console, but that makes sense for its heritage, vs UTF-(8/16/32) string encoding. I worked in EBCDIC back in the day, and ISY's stalwart ascii is just fine. Cheers.

Thanks will do. I might remove and reinstall it to get the specific error message. The "stuck" stake flow is: install plugin, get red "you need to set your API key" box on the detail page. Set the key from Ambient Weather "You need to set key" box remains 2nd box also appears with a message that the API request to AWN isn't authorized, and it includes the url the plugin is trying to hit. (Interestingly if you cut and past it into an editor, there's a space in the url after the AWN endpoint and before the path. IF I remove the space and put it in a browser window it works.) I can wait hours and it remains in this state. Restart / Stop / Start on the plugin does not clear the error. Reboot eisy, and the problem goes away. Like I said it would interesting to remove and re add it to see if it's repeatable. It's a great plug in and I showed an app demo of the PG2 version on stage last year for 1,500 observability geeks. IsyJsonGateway, FTW. Thanks for all your work on these plugins! 🙏 { "ResponseJson": { "properties": { "property": [ { "@id": "BATLVL", "@value": "0", "@formatted": "OK", "@uom": "25", "@name": "" }, { "@id": "CLIHUM", "@value": "73", "@formatted": "73%", "@uom": "22", "@name": "Humidity" }, { "@id": "CLITEMP", "@value": "796", "@formatted": "79.6°F", "@uom": "17", "@prec": "1", "@name": "Feels Like" }, { "@id": "DEWPT", "@value": "692", "@formatted": "69.2°F", "@uom": "17", "@prec": "1", "@name": "" }, { "@id": "TEMPOUT", "@value": "7862", "@formatted": "78.62°F", "@uom": "17", "@prec": "2", "@name": "Temperature" } ] } }, "Endpoint": "isyportal", "Command": "status/n004_ec63155_5", "Timestamp": 1747150361.696, "IsoTime": "2025-05-13T15:32:41.696+00:00" }

Thanks. It's only one plugin that seem to have an issue, for example AmbientWeather https://github.com/BME-nodeservers/docs/blob/master/udi-ambient-poly.md which returns permission errors from the server until PG3 is restarted. (Plugin restarts don't clear it.) I'll SSH in for reboot. That might be a fun plugin for a weekend project. Or, on second thought, hacking a plugin to do random SSH commands might not be something to release. 😂 I am however, thinking about a plugin to bring in metrics from Grafana/Prometheus, and an OTel event forwarder.

Does clicking "Restart IoX" in the UD Console also reboot the eisy and with it PG3? I'm confused about how PG3x and IoX share the eisy hardware. As a former PM, I'm sure there's a PowerPoint with layer boxes and client apps, likely with the FBSD kernel at the bottom, then C++ IoX and Python PG3 on top of it, each with independent HTTP service ports. But what I can't deduce is the relationship between IoX and the platform in terms of PG3. The "Multifunction button" doesn't seem to do anything if you press it 5 times, and I hate to power cycle the platform just to clean up occasionally wedged PG3 plugin states. So really, a few questions for you gurus: Does the "Restart IoX" button in the UD Console also restart PG3? If not, where is the widget to do that? What's the process to soft reboot/gracefully powerdown the eisy? Is there a command line option for the eisy to do this? OR just used standard FBSD shutdown -p {or -r} now command and IoX and PG3 gracefully exit on the OS halt message? Thanks for your help, and I appreciate you looking at it here since this also applies in the eisy and IoX forums.

Oooh.. sweet! Thanks Guy! Yeah it feels like there's an opportunity for a USB cable connected wall mount enclosure as a sidecar. Having the dongle hang off the USB port with those big antennas feels a bit sus, plus it would be handy to mount the ZMatter's antenna array independently of the eisy. Nice work.

Thanks bpwwer. Yes, the controller coincidently died two days before I tried to migrate the Polisy PG2 Node Servers to eisy PG3 plugins. So, I replaced it with a Rachio, and support helped me swap out the RainMachine plug-in for one for Rachio. It's working great. But bigger than that, I'm done with the overall project: old ISY99 + early separate blue box Polisy + lots of mixed Insteon and Z-Wave + 12 years of automation code + AWS and other external portal integrations + 6 Node Servers.. now all on one eisy. Maybe ten hours total planning, acquiring parts, and prep here and there over three of months, then the actual migration took less than an hour. Michel was awesome with helping resolve perquisite issues, and it worked as described the first time, including pulling all the Z-Wave nodes over.

Will do. Thanks!

RainMachine sprinkler controller.

It looks like a device controller isn't accepting connections from the new plugin I bought today because they're going out of business. So with the device dead and no replacements coming the plugin will never work. What's the process for getting a refund from the PG3 store? Thx!

Thanks Guy, that's the doc I'm looking for. An unexpected requirement for snapping a card in half should have something from the manufactured describing the process. I snapped it off and it fit in the case. Related:

Looking at the site and forum, I don't see a manual for inserting the ZMatter card and antennas into the case. The clearances for the antenna mounts are fairly tight. Even a couple of pictures would help. However the images on the ZMatter card in the store don't show the card and antenna leads installed. There's no document in the store under "Additional" and there was no insert in the package with the card or enclosure or QR code to docs. Hopefully Google and I are just missing it somewhere. If it's not documented by UD, would one of you have photos of the correct internal layout of the ZMatter card in the enclosure? Thx!

Whelp, it looks like Polisy updated some of it's modules but now the node servers won't start. This an original Polisy unit, and as I recall requires manual updates. The Node servers are Polyglot v2.. I know. Version 2.2.13 Frontend Version: 2.2.9-5 Based on this error, I'm guessing the OS needs an update: /lib/libc.so.7: version FBSD_1.7 required by /usr/local/lib/libpython3.9.so.1.0 not found What's the manual update process for this unit to get it one with the release steam? Not seeing it in releases or in posts. Thx!