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@jkmcfadden I do not have any zwave stuff yet. All insteon but the time is coming when I will need zwave items such as for one, motion detectors. The insteon motion sensors just don't work well. Don't think insteon has revealed all the coding aspects to UDI on some of their products. I am also not an early adopter or upgrader. My guess is by now, udi has worked out most all of the upgrade kinks we have been following. Please keep us posted. John

Well, I couldn't wait and checked the sysconfig.txt file and showed everything up to date. Looked at the UDM and showed the same so logged in and WOW! everything was there via the java appet. Up to date. Logged in via the web and all seemed good. PG3 was running, my notifications were working so far so good! I was prepared for a looong process but 12-13 minutes?! Good job UDI! My wish is that this wasn't, or so it may seem, going out to the cloud for logins via portal logins. I would like my old username back for both. I can sort of understand the change for the java applet but the web browser? But it is acceptable. I have one more to go in about a month as it is remote. Hope I have the same luck. John

I did all the checks to ensure my eisy was previously updated to the most recent versions, backed everything up and started the upgrade. My UD Portal signaled upgrade in progress several times, stopped pg3, told me my eisy rebooted and then told me that my node server was back up. What scares me is this took only 12 minutes. I am fearful of trying to log on lest I interfere with the process. How long should I wait? 2 hours? Thanks John

@apostolakisl Thank-you! John

Thank-you sir!

I have three (3) ANDed conditions that must be met before an action, (THEN), can occur. what is best practice in IOX. As I recall from past programming in IOX parenthesis' must be used for ANDing or ORing at times. XOR and XAND. I always get this stuff mixed up these days! So, is the following best, (pretty exclusive that the first two conditions must be met), practice... If ( 'Double Garage Door-Sensor' Status is On And $Can_Close is 1 ) And $s_GarageDoorIsOPEN is 1 Then ..... or is the code snippet the next best method to ensure that all 3 conditions are in fact met. If ( 'Double Garage Door-Sensor' Status is On And $Can_Close is 1 And $s_GarageDoorIsOPEN is 1 ) Then .... Thanks!! John

Bummer.. but understood.

I did that, discover devices, but Alexa will only see what the Portal shows from my understanding. From what I understand, I need to remove it from the portal and reconfigure? There is no way to edit an existing Spoken? When I try in the Portal; Alexa Spokens page, no address is even shown, (even tho the list of all devices shows an address) and when I try and edit it the select box is not enabled for device. Thanks for the reply!

I just replaced a bad IOLinc in my garage as the heat in AZ has finally cooked it. I had no problem replacing the old with a new IOLinc and all works via Agave and via the eISY JAVA GUI and I can open and close the door and show status via the Portal. However... The Portal for spokens shows the old device's address and not the new one and Alexa won't tell me the garage is opening or closing. How do I force a portal refresh of all devices? Thanks! John

I worry too much. That was a piece of cake!

Please forgive a probably simple yet stupid question, (I am known for them), as I try hard not to have any issues in doing things to my eISY and home setups. This morning I was replacing a bulb in my aged dining room 'chandelier' and in screwing in the bulb there was a pop and my Insteon 6 button dimmer part of the Keypad fried. In all probability just the SCR and associated circuitry, as the keypad stayed lit and it did not pop my circuit breaker. All the other buttons still do thier job except for ON and Off. It appears that in screwing in the bulb, as over the last 40 years, the socket base must have loosened and in screwing the bulb in the wires crossed. Ugh. In reading up on using Replace within eISY, it stated to remove the device from any folder it belongs in. Just so I fully understand; I have the device and buttons in several scenes within the Scenes folder. By removing the keypad and associated buttons from the scenes folder, that's all I need to do. I do not delete the scenes. (First Image) Should I Ungroup the Dining Room Group? (Second Image) Lastly, if all goes to plan, will the scenes all be properly associated with the new device? Then just put them back in the Scenes Folder? Thanks for your understanding and help. John

I have been a UDI/ISY user and supporter for... I don't know how long. Started with the ISY 994 so maybe at least 10 years ago and upgraded to the eISY about 6 months after it came out. Since we are away from home, a lot, I purchased some of the inexpensive Insteon Leak Sensors, (2852-222), and installed them under my kitchen sink as that seems to be the place where I have had most of my problems with drips and an occasional minor leak. (Did I mention I hate plumbing). We also placed mats under the sink that will hold about an inch of water just in case. Lastly, I used the "recipes" (code) in the pdf version of the ISY cookbook for these leak sensors. The code and sensors were tested and it worked. And boy did it! https://docs.universal-devices.com/production/The%2BISY994%2BHome%2BAutomation%2BCookbook.pdf Today I was happily trying to find the end of the Internet when the siren in my phone went off, (thank you for UD Mobile and Notifications), which alerted me that a leak was detected. OH MY GOSH. In the moment it took me to get up and get to the kitchen, that flood mat was filled up! Something popped in one of my RO filter seats. After re-seating my filters and checking the water, the water pressure was beyond amazing. A call to the city was made and I was told that they were flushing water lines in our area which can cause a rise in water pressure and boy did it rise! Had we not known about this leak or not been at home, some pretty extensive damage could have occurred. We are fortunate that we have great neighbors and friends who we could call and who would check and shut the water off if we weren't home. Flood averted. THANK-YOU to UDI and Insteon! John

Holy Smokes! Adding a Matter device even a simple Matter WiFi device seems like a real PITA right now. Hopefully UDI will come out with a really good HowTo Wiki page in the near future. UDI, please? This has been eye opening. John

Since I upgraded my eisy to the latest OS and IOX and having a look around UDM, I have to ask a few more questions about Matter on WiFi. I am a bit confused about WiFi Matter vs ZWave Matter, which I 'think' uses the RF ZWave dongle. I was looking through the UDM and found where one can add a Matter device. When trying to enable it to see what might happen next, it pretty much told me that I have to have the ZWave dongle or hardware or something attached. Is this true? Must I have the ZWave dongle to use WiFi Matter? Just some WiFi Matter compatible light bulbs. I have no reason not to by a dongle or two, but when I am slowly learning, I don't want to have hardware that I may not use since I am 99% Insteon... so far. OR, is there a full wiki yet or "how to" somewhere on how to enable WiFi Matter devices and create a node and exactly what is needed? Thanks again for all your help and information. John

WOW! That was just too quick and easy! Everything seems to work, OS updated, and IOX updated as well. One more to go next week. Just reporting... John