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@Ross Thank you for your post. I'm experiencing the same thing you are with the moon phase being a bit off from what I think it should be. Suppose we assume that the moon phase value in the plugin denotes the number of days since the last new moon. According to Wikipedia, a synodic month can be as short as 29.27 days and as long as 29.83 days, with the average being 29.53059 days. So let's just pretend that it's 29.53059 days every time. Right now, my plugin says the moon phase is 19.71. Would it be reasonable to calculate the moon's percentage of fullness this way? Moon Phase Value in Sun Polyglot plugin x 100 ÷ 29.53 or.... 19.71 x 100 ÷ 29.53 = 66.74568236% Timeanddate.com calculates the moon percentage in my location at 62.3%. However, nineplanets.org says it should be 69.34%. Sky-tonight says 61.4%. Not sure who to believe. I'm not entirely certain that this moon phase value really is the exact number of days since the last new moon. According to this post, the plugin calculates its values using Astral. And according to Astral's documentation: Not sure how Astral decided that 27.99 would be the number. That's definitely not a synodic month. Are they using a sidereal month? According to Wikipedia, a sidereal month is 27.321661 days. That's close to 27.99, but not quite. Maybe they rounding up? Not sure. But let's try the calculation again: 19.71 x 100 ÷ 27.99 = 70.41800643% That's off from timeanddate.com's 62.3% calculation by an even greater amount, but closer to nineplanets.org's 69.34%. And then there's this in Astral's documentation: If I'm understanding that correctly, it doesn't take your location into account when calculating moon phase. Of course your location does affect when the moon rises and sets. But, from what I've read, your location shouldn't make a noticeable difference in how full the moon looks. It can affect its orientation and its position relative to other stars however. FWIW, in my opinion the moon phase being expressed in this way (a not-quite-accurate sidereal month) is probably the least useful way I can think of. I would prefer the addition of the following values: Percentage Full: 0 - 100 Waning or Waxing: 0 or 1 Next full moon date & time Next new moon date & time Last full moon date & time Last new moon date & time Eisy allows us to schedule events based on sunrise and sunset. It would be nice if we could also include moonrise and moonset as well. (This does require latitude and longitude to calculate.) Of course, in order for this to come to fruition, Astral would have to be updated to produce these values, and/or the Sun polyglot plugin would need to find a different way of procuring and calculating the data. I guess to be fair to the authors of the plugin, it is called "Sun" and not "Sun and Moon."

@TUhl01 Upon visiting the aforementioned URL to see what udx verion I was running, I discovered an interesting result: ************ UDX ************ udx-3.5.6 Name : udx Version : 3.5.6 Installed on : Sun Mar 17 07:07:29 2024 PDT Version 3.5.6 was installed on Sunday morning at 7:07:29. That's interesting since I was asleep at that time. Also, 3.5.6 seems to exceed the "3.5.5_6" version mentioned as a requirement. In @Michel Kohanim's post he also says this version must be installed before installing the plugins. Not sure if I was on 3.5.6 before attempting to install the plugins. Perhaps I shall uninstall them and reinstall them and see what happens.

I attempted to use an Amazon Echo Show. After a dozen failed attempts to get it to pair, it finally did. Not sure what I did differently. While it was working, sounds were glitched and sometimes had static. Other times, sounds were cut off at the end. It quit working spontaneously and I couldn't get it to work after that. The announcement I received via e-mail only mentions needing eisy firmware 5.8.0 and above, however it sounds like it may not actually be fully baked quite yet... In this announcement for AudioPlayer Version 1.1.0 - Professional, @Michel Kohanim mentions the following:

The two main ones we use in our household are: "The garage door is opening." "Front door" (There's motion activity at the front door. It's nice to know exactly when those packages get dropped off or if someone is approaching.) I can think of several more.... If it's after a certain time in the evening, alert you that your front door is unlocked. "Back door" (possibly modify the wording) Announce motion sensor activity at any point of ingress or egress. Using the geo fence feature on UD Mobile, you could announce when certain family members are leaving or arriving. "It's after midnight and your teenage daughter's bedroom window has opened." The possibilities are endless. Of course, everyone will have their limits on how much they want to listen to a speaker squawk stuff at them.

The Polyglot v3 Bluetooth node is new and there isn't yet a section for Bluetooth in "Polyglot v3 (PG3)." Can we get one added?

Thank you @garybixler. That does give me somewhere to start. Much appreciated! 🙏

Thank you very much for the help. I think I'm more clueless that you might realize. Some questions: 1. Where can the audio player config page be found? In the Polyglot dashboard, in the UD Administrative console, or somewhere else? 2. "It should show up on the play list." Where is the play list found? 3. I'm seeing that MP3 files can be played. Where are these files stored and how does one transfer these files to that storage area?

I was delighted to learn about the Audio and Bluetooth plugins. I have numerous events I would like the eisy to announce. I have installed the Polyglot 3x plugins and started poking around and found myself wondering what to do next. Sorry for being a bit dense. Is there some kind of tutorial or step-by-step guide on setting up and configuring audio and bluetooth and making an announcement happen? I looked and looked but couldn't find anything.

What would be even more useful to me would be to have a small palette (maybe ten) of my chosen colors. I actually don't mind using the existing hex system to define what those colors are since I'll probably only have to do that once. Once I have chosen the colors I want, I would like to be able to easily select them from my favorites palette when necessary. Thanks again @Javi for all your hard work on the app. It has passed the "wife test" for usability which is a very high bar. Congratulations.

Thank you, @paulbates. This was a very educational read. 👍

We're coming up on a year since the last post in this thread. If someone with an appropriate knowledge base would be willing and magnanimous enough to do so, I would love to get a "state of the union" when it comes to eisy and Matter support. The curated answers to general eisy questions says, "Since there's nothing in the wild to test with, no one can say how it will work or what can/cannot be done." I would have to believe that's changed at some point in the last year. I do see a few Matter compliant products on the market. There are a few forum posts with questions about Matter products, but very little information to be found. ARS had an interesting article on Matter recently which would lead me to steer clear of it for the time being. Anyway, some recent thoughts on the "matter" from guru-tier forum members would be educational and appreciated. (Merry Christmas, BTW.)

Thank you for the update. This had me spinning my wheels for a while last night. After checking everything up one side and down the other, I concluded that the problem was unlikely to be on my end. And it must have been quite challenging on your end when all your services are running fine but only a portion of your users are having issues. What would have been nice for me is to be able to see if other users besides myself were experiencing outages. Perhaps there could be a forum section where users could report their outage so others can see that they're not the only ones. One other thought... When I looked at the help->about in the admin console, "Internet Access" is shown as "Disabled." After chasing that down, I found a forum post in which @MrBill explains that's a bit of a red herring. It might be helpful to change the verbiage on this as he suggests.

+1 There appears to be a Github repository for just such a node but it doesn't seem to be available in the PG3x Node Server Store. I have opened an issue about this on Github.

Thank you so much @Geddy and @bpwwer. This is really helpful information. Interesting. With the tiny internal antenna on the isy994i, I did have some issues talking to that deadbolt. Because of that, I moved the isy994i to a location where it has line of sight. That helped a lot. It's still about 20 feet away though. I thought since the eisy is in the same spot and it has the added advantage of the ZMatter USB's external antennas, communicating with the Schlage Connect would be a slam dunk. Maybe not. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I do have a super long ethernet cable and I may be able to get that eisy within a few inches of the deadbolt and try it again. I'll try that this weekend and see if that fixes it. Thanks again for the guidance. 🙏🏻

Well, I feel a bit silly for not having thought of that. I restarted the admin console and the polyglot did indeed update to statuses that make a lot more sense. Thanks for that great (and should-have-been-obvious-to-me-but-wasn't) tip! I was hoping that would have fixed the Schlage deadbolt problem as well, but alas it persists.