The echo video was pretty gay but the information was provided

 

What was gay about it? Were there two Echo's having sex with each other? Or are you just jealous?

Tweeted as well - https://twitter.com/dtherio/status/604525896335106048

What was gay about it? Were there two Echo's having sex with each other? Or are you just jealous?

 

I believe my comment was pretty clear.

I know its stupid but everyone should tweet @amazonecho telling them to let Micheal / Universal Devices in to the Dev program. This fits nicely in 160 char's:

 

"@amazonecho plz take Michel Kohanim's dev API req seriously. His org's ISY is #1 Insteon home controller. http://bit.ly/1FS2INM  I beg!!!!!!"

 

In many companies the social media department tends to have more pull then support org's. Make some noise and it may just help.

 

More of a twitter lurker, but I made an exception in this case. Thanks for the idea Jay

I set up the hue emulator and it works great with echo!  Very fast response, and you can set regular names for scenes, so you can say "alexa, turn off kitchen lights".  Much better than the prior echo hacks.   Put it on a rasberry Pi - takes 30 minutes to start the java script, but once it's running it's still very fast to respond to requests.

Edited May 31, 201510 yr by jruben4

Right now I can only turn on/off scenes, because their ID has no spaces in it.  Java seems to bomb out when there is a space in the device ID like the switches have.

 

EDIT: seems to work with the spaces replaced by %20.  Strangely though, turning on a switch via a REST command is not the same as physically flipping the switch.  It's not activating the rest of the scene it is a controller for like it does when physically turned on.

Edited May 31, 201510 yr by jruben4

 

 

 Strangely though, turning on a switch via a REST command is not the same as physically flipping the switch.  It's not activating the rest of the scene it is a controller for like it does when physically turned on.

 

That's normal, how INSTEON works.

Yes, but it is a problem since programs can only be triggered by switches, not by scenes.  I'm going to have to make a hack using variables, since I can control those by REST and also trigger programs with them.

Without details about the specifics it is difficult to suggest a solution.

 

REST can turn On/Off a Scene which turns On/Off devices which can trigger a Program using "If Status".

Yes, but it is a problem since programs can only be triggered by switches, not by scenes. I'm going to have to make a hack using variables, since I can control those by REST and also trigger programs with them.

You can control programs as well directly by REST.

You can control programs as well directly by REST.

 

@jruben4, here's more info on hbs01's comment: http://wiki.universal-devices.com/index.php?title=ISY_Developers:API:REST_Interface#Programs 

Hi jruben4,

 

Understood. This said, can you please let me know the use cases for which you would be using IFTTT?

 

With kind regards,

Michel

Michael,

 

Just to give you another example, may be very specific but i have IFTTT populating an Google spreadsheet after some specific events. Currently i mail IFTTT from ISY and it works pretty well. Not sure if i'm the only one suffering with "can i do it in a better way?".

 

This logging to google spreadsheet can be used to several things, such as consumption. I'm not in a country with advanced electrical services, such as ADR or similar.

Hi MFBra,

 

Thank you.

 

You can already do that with dynamic file content using network resources.

 

With kind regards,

Michel

Michael, I don't have access to my ISY right now, did a search for "dynamic file content" on the wiki and forum, also dogged most part of how-to section but could not find it.

Con you point me to some URL?

 

Thank you

 

 

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Hi MFBra,

 

So very sorry ... I didn't use the correct title:

http://wiki.universal-devices.com/index.php?title=ISY-994i_Series_INSTEON:Networking#Dynamic.2FCustom_Page_Creation 

 

With kind regards,

Michel

Mine should be here tomorrow. I have to get the hue fired up

I am still waiting on an update.

Heh - how do you get special treatment?

 

 

 

-Xathros

 

EDIT:  Nevermind...  Mine looks exactly the same from the mobile interface.  My guess is it will be on time ... until its late.

Edited June 2, 201510 yr by Xathros

Heh - how do you get special treatment?

 

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-Xathros

 

EDIT: Nevermind... Mine looks exactly the same from the mobile interface. My guess is it will be on time ... until its late.

The only special I got was the $99 price.

We got our Echo yesterday. Really loving it just out of the box. I'm going to attempt to control some lights with it and I will report back my results.

 

 

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As I suspected, just got a notice from Amazon - Mine has been rescheduled to June 15

 

-Xathros

As I suspected, just got a notice from Amazon - Mine has been rescheduled to June 15

 

-Xathros

My order now says June 16. I can only guess that demand is high and supply is low. Three months to deliver a product is a problem.

Set mine up last night pretty happy with it. Still need to setup the hue emulator. I'm impressed with the sound quality based on its size. I live in a a small 1200sqft ranch and I out the echo in the leaving room and can give it commands from the bedroom. The remote is handy as well. It's play with you like Siri.

I am ttring to get this up and running but i have stuff listening on the the ports and i get access denied when I try to kill the pids

I fixed the pids but now i get connection refused

Thoughts

Edited June 5, 201510 yr by themlruts

I am ttring to get this up and running but i have stuff listening on the the ports and i get access denied when I try to kill the pids

What are you running it on?  Mac?  Linux?  Raspberry Pi?

If Linux/pi, try running:

sudo netstat -ap --numeric-ports | grep 8080

Are you running DSCLink?   By default, I think that listens on 8080.