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You may have already done this, but in case you didn't, you should have your router reserve the ip address for your hue bridge...I learned that the hard way...router rebooted, and everything had new ip addresses...all my hue stuff stopped working. also, is the step-by-step guide a post you made? If so, it might be nice to add the phillips api link. http://www.developers.meethue.com/documentation/getting-started

You can just uncheck the lights you don't want to be impacted by the scene...that way your other lights can keep doing what they're doing.

Instead of creating your scene from the "scenes" menu, do it from the "lights" menu. then hit create in upper right.

Again, I don't do it this way, I just always assumed I could if I wanted. I've been wrong before

Correct, "on","false" is not for scenes.

I think you would just create a scene where those bulbs are not active...I'd have to look more. When I turn my hue lights off, I just use groups/0/ because I only have 6 lights and I want them all off. But if you want some hue lights to stay on while others go off, create a group like is described here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25513992/philips-hue-how-to-create-group-for-user

You can't do that. You can either name a custom group and send that group the "on","false" or you can create a new scene that uses all the same bulbs as your current scene, but with bulbs brightness at 0.

What does the scene control? are there any responders? is there a way to query that? or does the scene do nothing?

meant to include this link when I said they changed it. http://www.developers.meethue.com/documentation/getting-started

ahhhh... I see here that they took away the ability to create your own usernames now... /api/yourcrazyusername/groups/0/action is the url for all lights and you simply pass {"on": false}

yeah...those slashes need to go in the host. also, since you get to pick your own username when making the connection, why did you pick such a long and crazypants name? Hkpkirk...etc doesn't matter, just curious.

Thanks Paul, I actually was just trying to directly call the url via https in a network resource... In theory, all I need to call is the url in my phpcurl and my [MYDEVICEID] and [MYAUTHID] which are hard coded in my scripts. I'll certainly check out the Polyglot stuff you talk about...might be right up my alley

Goal mostly complete! Would still like to talk to the rachio servers directly, if anyone has tips. https://rachio.readme.io/v1.0/docs But, I have a working cat sprinkler.

I think the fact that there are isy scenes and hue scenes makes this conversation muddy at times.

I'm pretty new to all of the isy stuff, so forgive me if I'm not getting the question. I do it like this I have a network resource called "turn hue Panda on" http://[MYHUEIPADDRESS]/api/[MYUSERNAMEIMADEUP]/groups/0/action {"on": true, "scene": "90960ac47-on-0"} the scene number i got using the hue built-in api debug tool. http://[MYHUEIPADDRESS]/debug/clip.html I then have this program if Control "scene switch button a" is switched on Then Resource 'set hue Panda on' of course scene switch a is the controller for a scene called "Panda"

At night we have raccoons playing in the yard, which I love, but it is just this one cat that loves to sleep in my garden...day or night. Just realized I will have to modify my goal to include using a keypad button to disable the program, so I can actually work in the beds without getting wet!

Well that makes it easier...I have just the place in mind...right at cat level!

ugh...thank you...I had done this during syncing, but didn't get that I had to do this every time I set options...that worked great.

I know people keep saying "why would you want to do this?" For me it is cats and my raised garden beds. Would love any input you all have. GOAL: trigger my garden sprinkler zone for 30 seconds any time there is motion sensed on my insteon motion detector. Addition to goal: deactivate program by keypad button. problem 1: could not get the isy to communicate with rachio's servers...I think related to ssl issues? my solution: write a simple php script that CURLs the rachio server on one of my servers, and trigger the link on my server when motion is detected. my php fyi <?php $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"https://api.rach.io/1/public/zone/start"); $data = array( 'id' => '[MYDEVICEID]', 'duration' => 25, ); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($data)); $headers = array(); $headers[] = 'Authorization: Bearer [MYAUTHID]'; $headers[] = 'Content-Type: application/json'; curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers); $server_output = curl_exec ($ch); curl_close ($ch); print $server_output ; ?> Obviously, this is sloppy, so if anyone has any tips on getting the rachio servers directly, I would love to hear them. https://rachio.readme.io/v1.0/docs problem 2: I did not know the motion sensor wouldn't work through a big window...oops my solution will be to try to weatherproof the sensor a bit and put it outside. problem 3: [FIXED BY LeeG] the isy always throws an error every time I try to set options...the settings seem to actually take, but it can't read the current settings so communication error keeps popping up. solution was: I needed to press set button before trying to set options.

And thank you

So I make a scene that has no purpose other than to turn off the keypad lights!? Brilliant. I'll try that.

I'm running into a little problem setting a keypad to control my hue scenes. Set up: 3 dimmer switches 1 dimming 6 button keypad I have 3 insteon dimmer switches set as follows: all wired "always-on" "on" state is set at 28% and sets hue lights to 20% and sets the state of all dimmer switches to 28% and keypad to 28% "fast-on" sets the hue lights to 100% and sets the state of all dimmer switches to 100% and keypad to 100% "off" sets the state of all dimmer switches to off and keypad to off 1 dimming 6 button keypad set as follows: wired "always-on" Press and hold on "on" or "off" dims hue bulbs via hue's "bri_inc" "on" turns hue lights to 100% and sets the state of all dimmer switches to 100% "off" turns hue lights to off and sets the state of all dimmer switches to off button d (the problem button) turns on and off a hue scene called "pinky" which is a bunch of colors The Problem pressing on or off on any of my switches, successfully overrides my scene "pinky" But I can not find a way to set the status of button d to off. I know... a lot of setup for a tiny question. Thank you in advance for any help.

Thanks folks...no amount of rebooting fixed it, but accessing it from another computer on the network did. Even though I deleted all my cache files, cache seems to be the issue...Even though I'm up and running again, it would be good to know how to do it right.

This is my first couple of hours with this, so I'm sure I'm missing something basic...after attempting to install network module, I can't see my isy any more