stusviews Posted November 26, 2017 Posted November 26, 2017 The Insteon protocol allows only turning a scene on or off, not setting them to a specified level.. And yes, if you want the scene members to be at half their current brightness and I want them to all be set to 50%, then that comprises two separate scenes.
ScottAvery Posted December 12, 2017 Posted December 12, 2017 The argument you are making is implying to me that you are misinterpreting the whole purpose of scenes, as defined by Insteon. A scene is just that - preset levels of devices that you can call with a single on command. You appear to be uses a scene as a group construct instead - which was not the intent of the scene in the insteon protocol. I will agree that you are both interpreting the "purpose" of a scene in these conflicting ways (Grouping vs. Level-setting), but I disagree that grouping is a misinterpretation. I think Grouping is in fact an intentional usage as evidenced by the implementation of 3-way switching and the ability to dim/brighten scenes from a controller, as a group. I would argue it was a terrible, short-sighted mistake to blend them together but it may have been unavoidable due to the need to support users without an advanced controller. For me the conflation of Grouping and Level-setting is one of the great weaknesses in the automation of Insteon lighting.
steveng57 Posted February 25, 2018 Posted February 25, 2018 @KeithL, awesome set of instructions Keith. Thanks for saving a ton of heartache and headache. Got Alexa up and running well in less than 1/2 hour thanks to your effort. Kudos. Steve
billisy132 Posted May 25, 2018 Posted May 25, 2018 I added 14 new devices and Alexa will not discover them I ahve 15 device linked through ISY with no problems. Added my sprinklers and no go. any ideas?
dbuss Posted May 25, 2018 Posted May 25, 2018 33 minutes ago, billisy132 said: I added 14 new devices and Alexa will not discover them I ahve 15 device linked through ISY with no problems. Added my sprinklers and no go. any ideas? Have you added the devices to the Amazon Echo device list in the ISY Portal?
billisy132 Posted May 25, 2018 Posted May 25, 2018 I am not familiar with that procedure. Is that something new. All I have ever done is asked Alexa to discover new devices
dbuss Posted May 25, 2018 Posted May 25, 2018 31 minutes ago, billisy132 said: I am not familiar with that procedure. Is that something new. All I have ever done is asked Alexa to discover new devices Log into your ISY Portal. Click on the "Select Tool" drop down menu Click on "Connectivity" Click on "Amazon Echo" Click on "Device" Select the device form the drop down menu and add the spoken. You need to do this for each new device you want to add to Alexa. After adding the devices in the ISY portal. Ask Alexa to discover devices.
billisy132 Posted May 25, 2018 Posted May 25, 2018 Thanks, I will try that. Perhaps that is the step I missed.
billisy132 Posted May 25, 2018 Posted May 25, 2018 So I am home now and do not see select tool drop down I have files link management tools and help tools does not have connectivity in it
paulbates Posted May 25, 2018 Posted May 25, 2018 The ISY Portal is a web application: https://my.isy.io
billisy132 Posted May 25, 2018 Posted May 25, 2018 I have never used the portal. I use my admin screen. Is the portal necessary to do this integration?
billisy132 Posted May 25, 2018 Posted May 25, 2018 So I signed up for the portal. And it has not yet sent me an email verification even though I have asked for it several times. Do you know how long it takes?
billisy132 Posted May 25, 2018 Posted May 25, 2018 (edited) So I registered. It wanted my uuid. I entered it, clicked on connectivity and it comes back with error isy not online. Sorry I am lost. What do I do now? How can all my existing stuff be working, with ALEXA, and portal says I am not online Edited May 25, 2018 by billisy132
paulbates Posted May 25, 2018 Posted May 25, 2018 (edited) I think there is a short wait to get the account authorized from the UDI side.. its been a few years, I don't remember how long. Here are the instructions https://wiki.universal-devices.com/index.php?title=ISY_Portal_Installation_Instructions Edited May 25, 2018 by paulbates
dbuss Posted May 25, 2018 Posted May 25, 2018 43 minutes ago, billisy132 said: So I registered. It wanted my uuid. I entered it, clicked on connectivity and it comes back with error isy not online. Sorry I am lost. What do I do now? How can all my existing stuff be working, with ALEXA, and portal says I am not online From what I can gather from your other posts, it appears you may have connected to Alexa through the Mobillinc portal. Can you confirm this? 1
kevinvw Posted December 5, 2019 Posted December 5, 2019 I could use a little help untangling my setup for alexa and isy. This worked at one time using isy portal. I went to mobilinc pro and it still worked but some devices weren't available to alexa. Sometime later I thought I would try mobilinc x and had no luck at all getting that to work. I am not back to isy portal and it appears to be working properly (admin console shows it as online). when I try to bring up the dashboard, it shows offline at the top of the window, and the progress bar for refreshing UI components hangs around 20%. then I get a Socket Open Failed java.net.SocketTimeout Exception. When I go to my.isy.io, isy shows online (green dot). select tool connectivity/Amazon Echo, dialog appears to add devices. The pulldown shows my devices/scenes/etc. And I can add devices to my echo one at a time. But scan for new devices umder the alexa app does not find any devices. I have disabled/enabled the skill several times, revoked isy portal and reenabled, with no joy. Thanks for any help. Kevin
PPatla Posted July 29, 2020 Posted July 29, 2020 Is there a best practice for where you classify scenes? I've spent some time in the forums but didn't see a recommendation. Examples: if a Scene consists of "two separate outdoor outlets" should this be classified as a scene or a outlet? If a Scene consists of "two outlets, and two switches" should this be a scene? or should this be broken into two scenes that would be classified as "two outlets" and "two switches"? When do you use switch vs. outlet vs. scene for an actual scene? I've seen where you need to add the devices seperately to Alexa and create an alexa group if you want dimming for example. But my question is more around what does the different classifications in the portal really do differently? I think in the portal it's called category.... -pat
FarmerGeek Posted October 16, 2020 Posted October 16, 2020 I have isy devices working with Alexa. set it up a couple of years ago. I can't get Alexa to discover 6 new devices. I can see and control them through the dashboard and with agave. I red the steps at the beginning of this topic and unless I missed something have done them all. Any ideas?
MrBill Posted October 17, 2020 Posted October 17, 2020 (edited) 14 hours ago, FarmerGeek said: I have isy devices working with Alexa. set it up a couple of years ago. I can't get Alexa to discover 6 new devices. I can see and control them through the dashboard and with agave. I red the steps at the beginning of this topic and unless I missed something have done them all. Any ideas? Have you added the devices in the ISY portal at my.isy.io ? hint: Select tool > connectivity > Amazon Echo Edited October 17, 2020 by MrBill 1
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