slimypizza

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.

Thank you all for your suggestions. I believe its all sorted out now. Strange as it was, things seem to be working again. I ended up verifying the switches worked if my EISY was powered down. All switches responded as expected. Then I reset and restored every switch since the malfunctions seemed to be random. That took a bit of time. Then I resaved every program on my EISY. Extensive testing now indicates the system is working without issue once again. Don’t know how this started but glad it’s over and appreciative of all the help. I’ve got a medium sized automation network and can now resume my project to expand.

There are too many switches affected to think they individually all failed at once. Also, I mentioned some programs are not performing as they should. I suspect the EISY at this point and not necessarily the PLM (since HA and Alexa appear to work). Perhaps there is a programming or config glitch I can’t get rid of unless I start from scratch or go to a previous backup. As I outlined above I will disconnect my EISY from the network and see how the switches behave. After that I may need to go to a previous backup but I only have backups from older SW versions. As I said earlier, this problem was first noticed after installing two new 2477S switches. My only backup prior to the new switch installation was the one created when I advanced to 5.9.1. Again – Can I use older backups from previous OS versions in an updated system? Thanks all.