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This is an Alexa+ issue but worth noting if someone else has had problems as well. I have an EISY controlling multiple Insteon devices in my home. One of those devices is an I/O module garage door control. We’ve been using Alexa to open and close the door for a few years now. A few days ago I upgraded to Alexa+ and while everything else works, the garage door is suddenly a problem. With Alexa+ the performance is erratic. Sometimes Alexa+ will open/close the door upon verbal command but most of the time we get an audio message saying we must open the garage door manually and to go to the Alexa app /Devices and adjust the settings for it to work with a voice command. I will muck around in the Alexa app with the device settings (making an edit and just restoring the routine) and it will work correctly but then the next morning it reverts back to telling us we must open the door manually. It is quite apparent that something happens over a period of time and what was once a working garage door command to Alexa+ reverts back to a non-working situation. Everything else seems to work fine. It’s possibly something to do with the Garage Door command calling another program’s THEN or ELSE section depending on if an open or close command was issued. For some reason Alexa+ doesn’t handle that consistently. Alexa (non plus) works okay. I solved the problem by discontinuing Alexa+ and going back to plain’ol Alexa. It’s a deal breaker for me. At some point issues like that will have to be resolved before I go back to Alexa+.

For what its worth, here are my settings for the IO Linc on my garage door. Additionally, I have the PLM set to 1 retry.

Same here. I have a similar situation at the house where I want a KPL button to control multiple lights in a room. Pushing the button turns them all ON and pushing again turns them all OFF. However, I want the KPL light to come on if I manually (either switch or Alexa) turn a subset of the lights on in that room. So I have the KPL control the ON/OFF for all the lights and a separate program to turn the KPL light ON if any subset of the lights are turned on. Took a while to get that right, but works as expected.

I had to do a similar solution when I replaced my ancient opener with a new Chamberlain a year or two ago. Don’t know why Chamberlain changed their design to the RF type link. The simple pushbutton open/close design was much simpler. I ended up taking a RF remote opener module and soldering leads to its push button terminals and wired those to the old momentary-closed push button already on the garage wall. Pushing the wall mount button closed the circuit on the RF remote opener (mounted up on the garage opener motor brackets) and opens/closes the garage door. I also attached the open/close relay connections from the Insteon I/O Module garage door control to the same contact points. It all works and Alexa commands function properly too, just a hassle all because Chamberlain and other manufacturers, went to a more complicated opener design.

I'd be interested in knowing how to specify that "only certain Alexa's respond to certain commands." Can you point me in that direction? I have Alexa devices in guest bedrooms in the house each with a different name (Echo, Ziggy, Computer). It would be nice to prohibit one room from commanding actions in other parts of the house.

I don’t think you need the separate Dog Lights program. You could just put that logic in the Dog Lights Away program. But that’s not the problem. I think it’s the IF statement. The Mon-Fri section has no calendar entry and may be halting the program from running. If you meant to trigger on Mon-Fri all the time then check the “Daily” box when programming that part of the schedule.

No help here just confirming I see the same issue on my EISY/HA system. At least the Blink app still works. I have the arm/disarm schedule setup there.

Thank you. Sounds like I should keep it installed though I dont use UD mobile. Looking forward to future updates to add functionality to eisy-ui.

Is there a way to uninstall eisy-ui?

I guess this is just another quirk of Alexa but I’ve had the voice command “It’s movie time” in our house for a few years now. It correctly turns off all lights in and around the family room for watching TV. Maybe it’s because I don’t have any other commands beginning with “It’s” so there is no potential conflict.

I have the IOlinc garage door kit and I key on the garage door sensor to determine the status of the door (ie open or closed - ON/OFF). It updates on its own, without needing to query. You should have two devices that show up in your AC: garage door relay and garage door sensor.

Thank you. I skipped right over the mention of beta in the official release post. Looking forward to further additions to eisy-ui.

I guess I misunderstood the purpose of eisy-ui. I thought I read it was to get rid of the java based AC. I finally got eisy-ui working after following the instructions of bmercier including sudo service eisyui start. However, I don’t see this as any replacement for the java UI. There’s nothing dealing with programming or variables, etc. Did I miss something or is that part still in the works?

Try adding your port number. Ex https://192.168.0.172:8443/desc

Yes, exactly. Once the EISY was powered down the switches were snappy and functional unlike their behavior with the EISY on.