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Hi All, Thanks for all the inputs. Ultimately, a new hard start kit fixed the issue of the second stage compressor coming on in the afternoons. As I noted, I found a recipe for IFTTT that was supposed to alert me if the temperature went above a certain threshold, but it never worked.

Hi Larryllix, I do have a C wire. I actually have two identical units with nest thermostats and they have run fine for several years, so I don't think there is a general configuration issue. While looking for solutions, I found an ifttt applet that already does what I wanted. It took like 2 minutes to set up to provide the alerting I needed. I will still look into further integration with polyglot. Thanks

Hi Paul, Thanks for the response. My power company is not one that has the ability/right to remotely cut my air. I have had my AC guy out here 4-5 times already this season and the issue is intermittent and doesn't usually happen at a time with high capacity usage (afternoon). Coolant is good and everything else checks out. I am not really looking at using notifications for anything other than pin pointing when the issue starts so I can ultimately get this fixed permanently. I will look into the cloud api solution you mentioned. I thought there was a way to query the nest locally and not go through the cloud service. That is unfortunate that it can not. I have a Linux server at home that is on 24/7 anyway so it may be easier just to look at running something there and not messing with the isy at all.

Stu, I am not using the ISY to control the thermostat at this time. I am only wanting to query it at the moment. I would of course have to account for things like away/coming home, etc in the calculation. This should be easy to do by tracking the last polled set value versus the current polled value and if different, adjust the allowed differrence for a period of time before alerting.

Hello All, I am having an issue with my AC unit where the compressor isn't always coming on. This usually manifests itself by the thermostat showing the AC unit is running, but the temperature in the house is rising or at least isn't cooling off. I have an isy994i and a nest thermostat. I was hoping I could have the isy ping the nest periodically ( every 5 minutes? ), get the current temperature the nest is set to cool to and what is the current temperature in the house. If the difference is more than ~5 degrees, text me to alert of an issue. Looking through the forum, it appears there are some challenges with integrating with the nest. Does anyone have a script or some examples that I could start with to accomplish this goal? This was pretty easy to set up with ifttt, but I prefer not relying on cloud based services for HA logic. The nest app supports this concept, but they won't alert you unless the temp goes over 95 degrees. Thoughts?

Thanks again all, I do indeed now have a mixture of Insteon and Zwave devices. I wish I could stay all Insteon, but there are just some controls that they don't have that Zwave does. it is good to have the ability to do both from the same controller. Gary's response above does everything I wanted without the need for any variables. There is one program that turns on the lights only if they are already not on, Then it calls another to turn them off after 5 minutes. If the light is already on, it exits and never calls the second program to turn them off. It is working great!

I am not going to pretend that I understand why it works, but that does indeed seem to work great! Thanks for the help! I will need to do more reading on programming the isy!

Hello, I have two garage doors - names 'Garage Door 1' and 'Garage Door 2' that are monitored. If either of these doors open and it is after dark, I would like the front port light 'Front Porch Light' and the entry way light 'Garage Entry' to come one and stay on for 5 minutes. However, if either is on already, it should remain on after the 5 minutes. I have two programs that I am running to try to achieve this: I am not sure how to cut/paste from the console, so I will pseudo write it best I can. Program 'Garage-Entry' If ( status 'Garage Door 1 - sensor' is On or 'Garage Door 2 - sensor' is On ) and ( From Sunset To Sunrise (next day) ) and status 'Garage Entry' is Off Then Set 'Garage Entry' on Wait 5 minutes Set 'Garage Entry' off else - no Actions Program 'Garage-FrontDoor' is just like this one, but it reflects the Front Door Light instead. The issue I am having is that the if seems to work fine and only turns on the light after dark, but it seems to exit immediately after that. Watching it in the console, the program doesn't seem to wait the 5 minutes and the light never turns off. it doesn't seem to matter if the garage door is left open or is shut again quickly, the program just seems to exit. I am fairly new to doing any in depth programming on the ISY and could use some guidance. Thoughts?