beninsteon

That's awesome, thanks Jimbo! Will this broadcast to all GH devices or can you select a specific one/set to send notifications to?

ISY/plm better because your can simply replace plm, without reprogramming everything. When the hub dies you have to start over with your Insteon network.

Also don't forget about the poor reliability of the hub. When it dies (usually about 2 years after installation) you'll have to start over with all your Insteon links and scenes. A huge problem!

Default rpi login is pi and password raspberry If these work make sure you change your password by typing passwd at the prompt

@bmercier This is working well, thanks. Ben

Too much Insteon traffic at the same time. I had a similar problem. You can try reducing the wait to 1 second but it may compromise reliability.

Add a 2 second wait before the "Set Scene 'Check Master Area' Off.

I had looked at this before but was unable to get assistant-relay v2 running on my pi ...

How can you use the harmony nodeserver to get the gh to make an announcement?

Yes it doesn't like certain words and I can't figure out why. I am also finding they're constantly pushing new software to the home devices and breaking things that have been working for ages. I am able to have things work the way I want it by renaming "family room fireplace" and "living room fireplace" to "family fireplace" and "living fireplace".

Yes, correct for lights it is no problem. I have "dining table lights" assigned to a GH in "front room" and "kitchen table lights" assigned to GH in "back room". When I tell Google to "turn on table lights" it turns on the correct set depending on which GH hears the command. However, I also have "living room fireplace" assigned to GH in "front room" and "family room fireplace" assigned to GH in "back room". For some reason these device names trip up GH and the living room fireplace is always turned on when I ask either GH to "turn on fireplace". This is relatively new behavior as even earlier this month the fireplaces worked just like the lights. @bmercier, do you have any contacts at google to submit this issue to?

Is the isy device called bedroom or bedroom light?

Anyone else loose the GH room aware functionality? Since this past summer, GH was room-aware, so when I told the GH assigned to my family room to turn on the fireplace, it responded by turning the fireplace also assigned to that room. Starting tonight, that functionality has failed and is turning on a different fireplace (both are controlled via network resource in ISY). Anyone else having this problem? I wonder if this is on the ISY or google side. I assume it's google as I'm finding they're constantly pushing updates to my GH and chromecast devices that are full of annonying bugs. Ben

Hi firstone, GH mini definitely works for HA -- it's all I'm using. I'd try removing ISY from GH, resetting the GH mini and reconfiguring both. Ben

Hi, I've been having some unusual behaviour with a couple of my programs and I'm trying to use the logs to understand how and when things are getting triggered. Unfortunately I'm having a hard time understanding the logs for this purpose -- I see a lot of info around insteon traffic but not much regarding program triggering. Is there somewhere else I can look? Thanks, Ben

Exactly what I thought, thanks @larryllix and @paulbates The "plain English" here is "if neighborhood changes and becomes true" then.... What are you using for presence sensing? Thanks! Ben

Hi, I'm using the UDI occupancy v2 nodeserver and would like to know how the following is evaluated: EnterNeighbourhood - [ID 0078][Parent 0001] If 'Neighbourhood' Occupied is True And From Sunset To Sunrise (next day) Then Set 'Outside / Scenes / Outside Lights' On Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') Does 'neighbourbood' have to change from False to True for this to be triggered? Or is the 'neighbourhood' occupied boolean polled every once in a while? I only want this to trigger if I enter my local neighbourhood when it's dark outside - don't want to turn the outside lights on in the middle of the night while I'm sleeping in bed because the ISY notices I'm in the neighbourhood. (I think In order to prevent this from triggering because I'm at home at sunset, I'll move the schedule conditions into a folder condition.) Thanks, Ben

You're right. After I disabled X and VNC, it installed correctly. Thanks!

I let it run all night and my Pi crashed. Had to unplug and plug it back in to get things running again. Any suggestions as to why that may have happened?

Hi @io_guy, Thanks for this! How long should it take to run this install script? I've been stuck here for about an hour.. Ben

@larryllix I don't like using the else result in isy programs when there are multiple conditions - I worry that the program may get triggered inadvertently, for example on a reboot.

I think this would be best achieved with state vars and programs. Note: you HueFav MUST be a state variable and not an integer, or this code will not work. State var 1: HueFav, init val = 1 Program 1: If $HueFav is 4 and (KPL.Button.G switched ON or KPL.Button.G switched OFF) Then $HueFav = 1 Else (nothing) Program 2: If $HueFav is NOT 4 and (KPL.Button.G switched ON or KPL.Button.G switched OFF) Then $HueFav =+ 1 Else (nothing) Program 3: If $HueFav = 1 Then Set HueLights to setting xxx Else (nothing) Program 4: If $HueFav = 2 Then Set HueLights to setting yyy Else (nothing) Program 5: If $HueFav = 3 Then Set HueLights to setting aaa Else (nothing) Program 6: If $HueFav = 4 Then Set HueLights to setting ddd Else (nothing) Hope this is helpful. ISY programming really isn't too difficult -- and you must be technically inclined if you're working with PolyGlot. Best, Ben

I was thinking about getting echo devices for this reason also but I bet it's just a matter of time till Google enables announcements in it's API.

Hi, Now that notifications are available for Amazon echo devices, wondering if something similar is cooking for Google home? Maybe @bmercier has some insider knowledge? Thanks, Ben

I got this for the first time last week. It was related to having multiple google accounts linked to the same google home. For example, when I asked GH to turn on kitchen lights, it worked. When my wife issued the same command immediately after, GH would respond "universal devices isn't responding". Both my wife and I were using the same UDI portal account linked to GH. I fixed the problem by: 1. making another UDI portal account for my wife 2. unlink the ISY from GH using the GH app on my wife's phone 3. relink ISY to GH using the new portal account on my wife's phone Fixed. No more not responding. My voice is linked to the ISY with one portal account and my wife's voice is linked with a different portal account (sub account of mine, so all the spokens are the same) @Michel Kohanim perhaps this is the issue others are experiencing? Ben