MrBill

I just went back an re-read your question. I may have misinterpreted it before, i thought you were asking about dimming scene's with alexa, you really just wanted grouping.

I ordered https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B096XH56FX/ they did ship from china, but arrived in about 15 days from date of order. the motor they use is a made by https://www.a-okmotor.com/ and includes the batteries in the motor unit. We may order more in the future, there's a couple places we could use them, so far they are just in the masterbath and bedroom.

At this point you don't need the "Pro" option of polisy, neither of the radio's (wifi or bluetooth) is implemented. If you need it in the future, I'm certain there will be an upgrade kit.

I have zigbee shades that include a tubular battery inside the roller. They only need charging about every 6 months so far.

for the fastest answer open a ticket, support@universal-devices.com as someone who reads the forum daily, I don't recall a similar question.

You can replace your 994 hardware with ISY on Polisy. Your PLM connects to Polisy instead. The Admin console is still used as the user interface.

Yea there's another problem here for sure, and it would be better to solve that problem than up retries to 5, which will create a new issue.

For devices in scenes that i want to be able to dim specifically via Alexa I use helper programs. My helper programs have evolved since I originally wrote about this to take on some duties with Home Assistant, however a good place to start is this thread:

Oh perhaps i'm confused, could you give the link to the z-wave devices on lutron.com?

Free cloud services tend to go out of business.... and leave their users in the dark. oh. right. that's the #1 topic on this board right now...

Or buy a polisy and a 700 series z-wave dongle.

lutron isn't z-wave.

There's actually 2 in PG2, I haven't looked to see if they are PG3 available or not. One is holidays, and the other is a google Calendar interface so that you can define your own. https://github.com/firstone/holidays-poly.git https://github.com/firstone/holidays-google-poly.git

I understand now, and you did say it was a z-wave thermostat in the first post. The thermostat is reporting full degrees if it can be changed you need to dig into the thermostats documentation and see if there is a parameter that can be changed. If you need someone to assist with that then post the make/model of the thermostat. I'm going to request this thread get moved over to z-wave section, it's really a z-wave question.

@oper8 is this a temp node generated by a node server? if so which Node server..... right now there are too many unknowns in your question to get the correct answer for your situation.

The reason you can only find dimmers is that the way two wire smart switches work is to "leak" current thru the bulb to complete the circuit required for communication. In the case of an ON/OFF switch it's not acceptable to leak current to thru the load to complete the circuit... OFF must be OFF, no trickle current.

@Westlake Ventures What make/model is the router? Is DHCP enabled?

ALso did you reboot the ISY after you moved it to the router? Unplug and plug back in....

means that it downloads the admin console file from a cloud server, which is faster than (lan) because the 994 is slow at encrypting the file. You're not actually doing anything in the cloud other than getting the admin console file.

are they 99i's or 994i's? If they are 99's i don't know what firmware to suggest you load, it would be old. 99's are deprecated and unsupported. If 994's tell us what both firmware versions say from Help > About

On a mac your best approach is to clear the java cache, and delete any files you have named admin.jnlp or start.jnlp and then save the admin console file from your ISY... http://<IP address of ISY>/admin.jnlp There's also the launcher, but you'll have better luck with the above. From windows the better solution is the ISY Launcher.

Try sudo service isy start and let us know what it says.

Have you double checked that you downloaded the correct version of the file (PLM vs Non-PLM)?

You can watch your Event Viewer window to see what's actually happening. You can also watch the Event Viewer afer the fact to watch how many retries are occurring. that said, if you're increasing retries to 5 and your system is very large you may be creating greater traffic collision issues. The real solution to the problem is to solve the communication issue.

1) Find the IP address via the router. 2) Download and install the latest Java from https://www.java.com (it must be that java, not some other version of java). 3) try using the launcher... on Windows this step will work, on Mac you may or may not have success with launcher), to use the ISY Launcher you basically download the start.jnlp file from https://isy.universal-devices.com/start.jnlp The first time you run start.jnlp it will install an icon on your desktop called ISY Launcher which you will use going forward. 4) the next thing you should see is an ISY Finder window. Finder may or may not Find your ISY on your network. If it did click the row and pick Admin Console (cloud). If it didn't use the Add button in the finder window to add an entry in this format: http://<IP address from step 1>/desc (don't include the <>, your entry should look something like http://192.168.1.33/desc) 5) report back your issues or status and we will go from there.....