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Thank you. I have unlinked and linked already the ISY skill. Deleted and reinstalled the Alexa app as well. I can delete spokens from the Portal but I don’t see how to delete devices. Do I have to go back and delete them in the ISY and add them back !? I do not see why removing devices from the Alexa app and then trying to have it re-discover those devices does not work. I will make a backup of the ISY and then add a few devices back as a test to see if Alexa can find them.

Through a series of ridiculous and unfortunate events, I lost use of my ISY994i for a bit and in the process removed it from the UD Portal. It’s all back now; the ISY functionality and my portal account is active. However, although all devices are listed in the Alexa app, they each say “Device is unresponsive. If its no longer in use, tap “Edit” to remove from Alexa app.” I have removed devices (rediscovery does not bring them back), unlinked and then linked again the ISY Smart Home V3 skill. and anything else I can think of to make active the Insteon devices in my home. Alexa is responsive in all other areas. Sonos speakers are working just fine, etc. Does anyone have suggestions on how to fix this? I cannot control any Insteon devices through Alexa. Thank you in advance.

If you're concerned about the Relay being energized for long periods (I was) then you could incorporate a short program to turn it off. Here's what works for me:

I “echo” larryllix’s praise on the usefulness of dots and similar voice operated smart devices. I was hesitant at first to add these to our home system and am amazed at how quickly we all adapted especially my wife. She adds items to the grocery list, sets multiple cooking timers, asks for conversions, weather reports, and much more. We play a variety of music on our Sonos in whatever rooms we ask for. (“Alexa play Bod Seger in the livingroom”) And now instead of pushing insteon switches to turn on various lights or toggle the garage door, we just ask Alexa. I always said I didn’t want to walk around talking to my house but I do that frequently now and don’t even think about it.

Honestly. I just use a browser from my iPhone. I have my ISY bookmarked on FireFox.

We have 2 Honeywell TH9320 which I put in in Aug 2015. Still working fine (fingers crossed).

My Alexa goodnight routine says good night to each family member, waits 10 secs and turns the downstairs lights off, turns on the upstairs master bedroom light to 60%, starts the bedroom ceiling fan, and sets the downstairs and upstairs thermostats (Honeywell) to their bedtime temperatures.

The status for my Garage programs are always True as well. This is not an indicator of the garage door open/close status. So if you look at your Sensor status on the isy994 Admin page it changes appropriately from ON-Off when door opens or closes? If you go to your browser and login to the isy994 Admin page program tab, or I think you said you use Mobilinc, and RUN your Small_Garage_Open program, it works correctly? It makes no sense at least from what I can tell, that the program works when RUN manually but not when Alexa runs the program.

Yes, it does look like your IF statement is not being evaluated or rather its always TRUE. On my system my IF statement is: Garage_Open - [ID 003A][Parent 0001][Not Enabled] If Status 'Garage Door-Sensor: ON=Closed' is On Yours is: Small_Garage_Open - [ID 0011][Parent 0013][Not Enabled] If 'Garage_Gate / SmallGarage' Status is Off I’m assuming that ‘Garage_Gate/SmallGarage’ is your SENSOR? I see a little difference in the way the program statements are worded. Maybe this is a difference in v5.x firmware vs v4.x? I’m using a 2450 IOLink v.41 and I’m running v.4.7.5 firmware in my ISY994i. What happens when you run your Garage Open program from your Admin console (ie not using Alexa)? Same result? Opens when it should but closes when it should not?

What are you clicking on when you say “Says Power On - and I click on it. Nothing happens. When I click on Power Off, the door opens.” ? I have 2 devices relative to the garage door which show up when I log in to UD normally through my cell phone (not my Alexa app). See picture below. Note: I added the text “ON=Closed” to the ISY device description so myself and my wife would know by looking at this if the door was opened or closed if we’re away and want to check on the status. Your configuration may be different, eg OFF=Closed. Therefore the two possible views for my configuration are: Garage Door-Sensor: ON=Closed On And Garage Door-Sensor: ON-Closed Off To toggle to garage door, click Garage Door-Relay “ON”, assuming its OFF to begin with. I always make sure the Relay is OFF to begin with using a small program to return the Relay to the OFF state 1 minute after the garage door is opened or closed. I forgot to mention this earlier. Without this I would have to turn the Relay OFF and then back ON to open/close the door. Having it return to OFF automatically makes things much simpler at least for me. My Alexa garage door routines are simple. Here is the routine to Open the Garage Door. Note: the reference to “Open the Garage Door” at the bottom is the same program I posted previously in this thread. It’s an ISY994 program not a scene. That’s just the way the Alexa app stores it.

You’d have to test it I supposed but I don’t believe this is quite what you want. It’s close though. When your “Movie Program Start” program branches to “Run Program ‘Movie Program’ (IF)” I don’t think the program flow would ever come back to finish the (THEN) portion of “Movie Program Start”. What you could do is run your “Movie Program” and at the end of it’s (THEN) section you’d additionally type: Run Program ‘Programs Disable’ (THEN) In the new “Programs Disable" program THEN section you’d have: Stop program ‘Driveway Start’ Disable Program ‘Driveway Start’ Etc Wait 4 hours Enable ‘Outside Motion Start’ Enable ‘Driveway Start’ Nothing would go in the (IF) section. “Programs Disable” would be a new program. Call it what you want. This program itself should be disabled and will only run when called by “Movie Program”. At least this might be a good start.

Program enable/disable is on V4 too.

What oberkc said is exactly correct and has worked perfectly for me for a couple of years now. For the IF part of the program, key on the garage door sensor STATUS and its appropriate state (On/Off) when the garage door is open/close. THEN bump the garage door relay. As stated, disable both of these programs since they will be triggered only by Alexa. My simple programs to open/close the garage door are below. Just add spoken commands in the portal for Alexa.

AH! Thank you !!

Thank you. I understand the flow but its the part of ISY Portal MS stateVAR ----> Alexa vocal that I'm not getting. Will keep at it. Not really necessary, just a cool thing to have Alexa do (talk based on ISY status that is) so I hope to get this running.

I have ISY programs and Alexa routines to open, close, and open part-way (for pets), my garage door on verbal commands using an Insteon 74551. Works great. I want to add a verbal announcement from Alexa to say "Garage door is already Closed" or "Garage door is already Open" if the wrong verbal command is given by mistake. And I can think of other times/routines I’d want Alexa to provide verbal feedback based on ISY status. I can’t seem to find any examples of ISY programs and associated Alexa routines that provide for custom verbal responses based on ISY IF/THEN/ELSE programming. Somehow I’m missing that. If someone has an example of how to accomplish this I’d appreciate it. Thank you!

That was me. I had to go back to v4.7.3 because of the incompatibility. I haven't heard anything new on the forum that might suggest Locative now works with V5 sans Portal but I have some free time on this coming holiday weekend and may try it out. I did however recently purchase Portal since I am now delving into Alexa which is so far so good. BTW I am not forwarding ports even without Portal. I'm using a reverse proxy.

New Alexa user here and I’m enjoying setting things up. There’s much I don’t know about Alexa’s capabilities but I wonder about the voice recognition. I know Alexa can differentiate between learned voices but what does that afford end users? For example, can my wife or I say “Alexa Turn on Bedroom light” and have it turn on the nightstand lamps on either side of the bed depending on who issued the command? The same thing would apply to “Alexa Open Garage Door” and expect the correct door to open.

Thanks Mecheng70. Just saw your post. In your test were you running 5.x and Locative? In my trials with previous versions of 5.x, Locative could not communicate successfully (ie change state and integer variables) whereas with 4.x everything functions smoothly. No changes to programs or URL calls. I’m not using Portal btw.

From Simplextech: I normally use Geofency but just to see I installed Locative on my iPhone and set it up. I'm using FW 5.0.16 and I run the Occupancy nodeserver in the portal (NOT Occupancy v2). Using the In/Out links provided it works perfectly. No issues for me with Locative or with Geofency. Thank you Simplextech. However I'm not using Portal and had not planned on it. I don't guess you have ever tried Locative w/o Portal for 5.x? Works for 4.x.

Does Locative work with this latest release? I tried two previous 5.x versions and Locative quit working. This is an important app for me to have working with my ISY. I'm on 4.7.3 now and all is well. Dont want to migrate to 5.x unless it works with Locative.

A static IP for your ISY is the best way to go and will avoid future confusion.

On my system I modified the device name to display “Garage Door-Sensor: ON=Closed” When I log in to the ISY this is a reminder as to how the On/Off status of the sensor relates to the actual status of the garage door. As to the status of the Garage Door Relay, I wrote a program to turn the Relay OFF after a set period of time (eg, 1 min). Works as expected. See below.

Still working for me.

Voice access is cool I’m sure for those who have Alexa, Google, etc. I don’t think access is any faster though and I use port 443 (which is open anyway) to come in to my home network then hit a reverse proxy on my firewall, offload SSL encryption, and send traffic internally via port 8080 to the ISY. My access link is something like: https://isy994.mydomain.com