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Great news. Thanks Michel

Great read. I can't wait for the next page. I'm very interested in what you are doing. Thanks so much for sharing that with us.

This will be easier when we get variables. You should be able to tell it to run unless a variable is true. You can then use programs to turn the variable on and off to disable the programs you don't want to run. One way to do it now is to set up a folder or program with just an IF statement. the programs you set up can be set to run only if the other program is false. For instance: Program 1 (These are the days you don't want the program to run) If Time is From xx:xx:xx on xx/xx/xxxx To xx:xx:xx on xx/xx/xxxx Then Blank Else Blank On the second program (the one that you actually want to run) If Time is xx:xx:xx every day and Program 1 is False Then xxxx You can then just modify the first program or folder to become true on the days you don't want the program to run.

One caveat.... If a program is running and in the process, it has turned something on, disabling that program will not turn it off. For instance, if my irrigation program starts running and I then disable it, the irrigation continues to run until I manually turn it off. If you were to write a program to turn off the irrigation, you would first tell it to disable the program and then turn off all zones, one by one. The same is true if you have a program that turns on lights or changes the set point on a thermostat. Disabling the program will not return the device to its native state.

I use a sliding scale adjusted for rainfall. If there is no rainfall (0-0.2"), I water my turf for 25 minutes and my beds for 15 minutes. I have settings for 0.2-0.4", 0.4-0.6", 0.6-0.8", and 0.8-1". If there has been over 1 inch of rainfall, it does not water at all. I also have a way that I can manually disable the programs. I have a folder called irrigation that contains all the above programs. The conditions for the folder are the dates that I want to water and an additional condition of a KPL button being off. That button is part of a scene that I can activate manually to disable the folder (and thus disable all the programs within). So if I don't want to water for some reason, I can just activate the scene from my iPhone. I use this when I've put out herbicide or when I know there is a thunderstorm on the way or if we have just had a lot of rain in the last few days. When we get variables in 2.8, this task will be much easier. There was another post on this forum about a great way to save the state of a KPL button in the ISY in the event of a power failure.

Here is a way that I overcome this problem. First of all, this will only work if you have a dummy switch and a scene to control the lights. I trigger the motion sensor to turn on/off the back porch lights with the condition that the dummy switch being off. If the dummy switch is on, the motion sensor will neither turn on the lights or turn them off. The motion sensor doesn't control the scene, it only controls the individual devices. That way, if you turn on the lights via the switch, the dummy switch is turned on and the motion sensor has no effect. In order for this to work properly, with one switch being a responder, you have to write a program so that a double tap of the responder switch will activate the scene and control the dummy switch. Does this make sense?

It doesn't work in either IE8 or Safari. You can neither save the page or view the source. Which browser might I be able to save the source and view it with? I don't have the web module yet. Does that matter? I think that since it uses JAVA, my browser won't allow me to view the source or save it. I know I'm not one of your more knowledgeable users, but given a little direction here, I think I could figure things out.

Is there a sample page somewhere that I can look at to see how this stuff is used?

Should someone be able to look at that page and build a web interface for their system? I need a remedial course. I'm not that much of a power user. Maybe if someone could post a sample page that uses this stuff, I might understand it and be able to use it. Thanks.

Are you working on the REST interface for Dummies guide yet? I'd like to tinker around with the web interface, but I have no clue how to get started.

smarthome sells replacement paddles for all their insteon switches, so if you need a black switch, you can just order a switch and a replacement paddle in the color you want. Here is a link to their color change kits for the switchlinc dimmers: http://www.smarthome.com/_/SwitchLinc/SwitchLinc_Paddle_Change_Kits/_/2vh/2wL/nav.aspx

I am setting up my sprinkler schedule and am finding that I can't just set it up to start April 30 every year. I'll have to go in and change the year every year for it to work. I know I'll forget to go back and change it next year so that in June, I'll realize my grass isn't getting watered when it starts turning brown. Am I missing something in programming or is this something I need to request for an enhancement?

A while back, I saw the mods saying that they were looking at doing something with variables in 2.8. Exactly what they are going to do, I have no clue. But it would be nice if they would allow us to use the data from weatherbug to calculate a variable that would be a sprinkler runtime modifyer variable so that when the variable is calculated, it would be a decimal value between 0 and 1. We could set up a basic sprinkler schedule of say 25 minutes per zone for grass and 10 minutes for flower beds and then have this change based on the sprinkler runtime modifyer. I've used this setup on my mac using indigo and it works really well.

I am looking to use weatherbug to control my EZRain. Could someone post some guidelines on how to use things like wind, rainfall, avg temp, humidity and things like that to control the irrigation? Also any other ways you are using Weatherbug would be interesting as well. Thanks.

Will do. Thanks.

Need help with a switchlinc dimmer. This dimmer is a part of a scene that it shouldn't be part of. It doesn't display in the ISY UI. I noticed that when I activated my motion sensor on the back patio, these lights would come on in the house. Every time I activate the scene, these lights come on. The ramp for this switch is about 0.1sec whereas the rest of the scene is set for 19sec. I factory reset the switch last night and the problem went away, but when I try to restore the switch from the ISY after the factory reset, the problem returns. I also tried deleting the switch from the ISY and readding it to see if the ISY would pick up on it being a part of the scene when I readded it and nothing. It only shows it being managed by one dummy switch and not a part of any other scenes. Any suggestions as to how I go about fixing this issue in both the ISY and the switchlink?