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Thanks! My thoughts exactly, I purchased 3 Inovelli switches today to try next time I’m at the cottage.

For my controller there I have Hubitat. I’ve posted this question there with all the troubleshooting everything is set as it should be so now I think it’s a Zoom brand issue.

Thanks for the reply! I agree that Insteon is one of the best. For my main house I'm using an Eisy with Insteon throughout. We built a summer home and I put Zooz throughout that is now causing me these issues. I'd like to keep the Zwave infrastructure and am wondering if there are known brands people have used in virtual configurations with dimmer switches that I could try. If I was doing it all again I'd pick Insteon again, but that's hindsight.

Hello all, Hoping to gather some feedback from people who have been successful with different brands of Zwave dimmers. I am currently using Zooz and the issue I am having is that if I press the non-controller to dim my lights, there's a slight delay, maybe as much a s second before the light actually dims. So much so that it's basically pointless to do it from any other switch than the controller itself, which is not wife-approved. I'm hoping there are other brands out there that are more efficient and 'sync' quicker than these Zooz. These would be dimmers and not just the on-off switches which a delay doesn't matter too much. Thank you

Thank you! Any chance the directions could be added into the user guide? Think it might help others who saw it as a selling point. Would also be good if the Polyglot web interface or IoX UI could do it so it's not command line driven, thanks again!

Just extra storage, like I said it’s overkill but might as well put the nvme I had lying around to lie around in some device

Sounds good, one of the selling points in their email to me to update was that you can add an ssd. Odd that there’s no real documentation or use cases for it.

So i popped in a 1TB NVME I had sitting around, how do I actually have the system use it? Granted it's complete overkill since I don't do fancy things with the Isy.. now Eisy, but it wasn't doing anything but collecting dust so figured I can pop it in. First I thought to go into configuration of IoX, not there. Then thought in Polyglot there would be a way to 'format' and at it. Nope. Are there instructions for it, because I couldn't find anything on the Eisy user guide I used to migrate off of ISY. Thank you!

Thanks, I can read python code but am not a programmer. In the past I usually look at peoples example code and piece together something that works for me. Its ugly and time consuming for sure.

Looks like home assistant can do what I'm looking for so going to install it tomorrow and tinker over the weekend

Thanks for getting me this far, I certainly didn't even think of running a website and the network resource kicks off the website that runs the script, thank you

Wow fantastic, yes I do have the network module, I use it to send on and off commands to other network plugs Would you possibly have an references for what network commands to use for SSH or where I could read up more on this being done? This sounds like the route I want to take. Thank you

Wow very interesting thanks, I guess I don't know much about rest commands. The question I have with this approach is how does the isy actually ssh into the rpi and execute the shutdown command? The other commands I understand with the then program commands. I just reread this and you said to initiate from the Pi. See that would actually be great but not sure how I would initiate it to run, cause if I have to ssh manually, I would just issue the shutdown command. Heck, I'd love to program something where if a button is pressed for 3 seconds, then the rpi would just shutdown, but i have no idea how to do that either.

Hi all, during quarantine I have built an arcade cabinet that runs on a rPi4 that the kids can use. Right now I have it set up that when a button is pressed on a keypad, it turns on the outlet that the cabinet is connected to and 'starts it all up'. Since the rPi4 is running linux, I was wondering if I could do something with programs where I would log in to the rPi, send a shutdown command, wait 10 seconds, then the outlet would turn off. Basically trying to figure out how to automate a safe shutdown of the cabinet. Is this possible? Is there a Nodeserver for interacting with linux OS's? Thank you

This is actually doing what I want to do. Just tried it and works perfectly, thank you!

Thanks oberkc. You are correct, I have 1 motion sensor and 1 light switch. The overall goal I want to accomplish is that the bathroom light turns on when someone walks in. The reason I want this is because the switch is inside the bathroom by the vanity, so guests usually get confused. I'm using the 99% to differentiate between when I click the switch, or when it's triggered by the motion detector. -what do you want to happen when you manually toggle the switch on? Off? === If I click it manually, I want it to stay on indefinitely unless is manually turn it off. If I turn it off manually, I don't want the motion to turn it back on right away. It's like I need a 5 second wait time so I turn it off and gives me time to get outside the bathroom -do you want thelights to turn on and off automaticaly? When and under what conditions do you want the lights to turn off? === I'd like them to turn on when someone walks into the bathroom. Then, if they walk out and forget to turn the lights off, i'd like the lights to turn off since no one is in the bathroom. However, if a person manually turns the lights on, then it's their responsibility to turn the light off (I have another program turning all lights off in the basement at a certain time if another sensor doesn't see motion). Hope that makes sense? I'm basically trying to get my insteon switch and bathroom lights to work like one of those cheap motion sensing switches

Hi all, I was reading the archived thread on using a motion sensor to turn on lights. Here's what I'd like to do: When someone walks into the bathroom I'd like the light to turn on. Everything is working pretty good except if I turn off the light walking out of the bathroom, the light turns back on (light switch is like in the bathroom by the vanity and not by the door). I have the motion sensor timeout set to 2 mins. I was thinking putting wait commands somewhere might help but it really didn't. Any thoughts? Thanks! I have 2 programs now: ---------------------------------- Basement Light - On - [ID 0017][Parent 000A] If 'Basement / Basement Bathroom' Status is Off And 'Basement / BasementBathroom.1 Motion' is switched On Then Set 'Basement / Basement Bathroom' On 99% Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') ---------------------------------- Basement Light - Off - [ID 0018][Parent 000A] If 'Basement / Basement Bathroom' Status is 99% And 'Basement / BasementBathroom.1 Motion' Status is Off Then Set 'Basement / Basement Bathroom' Off Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') -----------------------------------

@Michel Kohanim Excellent explanation, thank you very much for replying!

Hi Michel, so with event driven, does that mean that the program will look for that 'trigger' when it changes to 'false' and then run the program once? Or does it continually keep running the program since the motion sensor is now set at 'false' ? And if it keeps running it, what's the best way to prevent that, maybe put a wait timer in the after the 'run program' command ? Thanks again!

Interesting! Thank you very much for this, will try it out in the morning EDIT: Can someone explain to me why we would disable the 'Action' program? And just cause it's disabled, it'll still get triggered by the trigger program? I really like this trigger / action approach BTW, very unique!

I want the conditions to shut the lights when I am pretty sure no one is there, so I'm thinking of no motion is sensed AND not one is watching TV then it should be good to go. Perhaps something like this? If No Motion AND (Harmony Xbox = not on OR Harmony PS4 = not on OR ...) Then Shut down lights I guess I am having a hard time writing that syntax into the admin console

Thank you, I'm using the Harmony Polyglot server by Jimbo to get the status of the Harmony 'scene'. How do I actually add the OR's within the parenthesis? When I try to do that it ads everything on a different line and breaks it. I'm doing all this through the admin console programs section, thanks!

Hi guys, with the new update to being able to add nested if's with 'And And' and 'Or Or' I am hoping someone could point me in the right direction. My scenario: - I have 1 motion sensor in the basement - I want to be able to check for a few conditions to auto turn off the lights if they are met If motion sensor status = off (My motion setting will switch the sensor to off if it doesn't see motion in within 10 mins) AND (Logitech Basement Xbox = not on OR Logitech Basement PS4 = not on, OR Logitech Basement Watch TV = not on) Then Turn off basement lights My issue comes that I'm unsure how to do the various OR statements. Right now what ends up happening, is that I can do it for 1 Logitech Hub scenario, but i'd like to include the others. The reason I want to have that variable is that without it, I'm sitting on the couch so the motion sensor doesn't see me and after 10 mins turns off all the lights. Can anyone provide some guidance? Thank you

Hmm, yeah looks like i have to make some decisions. I was hoping I could tap into my Amazon Echo's to play the music, but I am reading up that there's no way to do that unless you invoke the Echo with the 'Alexa' command, so that sucks. I might buy a couple Google Mini's cause i heard those can play music without a wake up word. I'm hesitant to change inputs on my receiver as i believe that will just add to more lag.

Thank you all, is there a resource or website i could follow to see how possible this would be?