I’ve found how to “code” programs using the Isy “programs/details” page and “selecting” actions, etc.  I’ve seen other examples of code that makes me think that there’s a more direct method.  Can someone point me in the right direction?

 

Thanks.

JLOB

If you are talking about ISY programs, that is the only method that I am aware.

 

If you are talking about skills or network resources...this is done via other methods.

I agree with oberkc. I would give the ISY Programs a little more practice and time... its probably one of the most key features / differentiators of the ISY

 

Another non-native method is IFTTT, used in conjunciton with the ISY Portal module. https://ifttt.com/

 

Paul

I’ve been learning quite a bit over the last few days.  I’m beginning to convert all my existing Smarthome Manager programs to Isy.  I’ve run into a snag regarding the Amazon Echo.  I can’t seem to find how to tell it to run a program vs turning on or off a device.  Am I trying to do something that can’t be done?  Device control, ‘til now, has been straightforward (thanks to the help of all of you).

 

JLOB

Hi JLOB,

 

You should be able to. Simply add a program to the list in ISY Portal. Make sure it does not have the same name as other utterances you have setup:

http://wiki.universal-devices.com/index.php?title=ISY_Portal_Amazon_Echo_Integration#Instructions_for_Smart_Home_API

 

With kind regards,

Michel

Today is Day One for my ISY994i and the appropriate Insteon PLM. I have a house full of X10 devices. I’ll be darned if I can figure out how to add and X10 device. Can anybody point me to specific instructions on how to do this? In the dropdown box for adding new devices, X10 stuff is conspicuous by its absence.

 

Thanks for any help.

JLOB

What exactly do you mean by "New User at sea?" I curious.

 

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What exactly do you mean by "New User at sea?" I curious.

 

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Where I was reared, "at sea" was/is a euphemism for bewildered, or confused.  That's the way I felt when I first started this thread.  Not so much anymore, but I'm not sure how to, or if, I should change the name!

 

JLOB

Hi JLOB,

 

You should be able to. Simply add a program to the list in ISY Portal. Make sure it does not have the same name as other utterances you have setup:

http://wiki.universal-devices.com/index.php?title=ISY_Portal_Amazon_Echo_Integration#Instructions_for_Smart_Home_API

 

With kind regards,

Michel

 

My hangup was in not using the alert phrase "turn on".  I was testing dimming routines and I guess the "turn on" was counter-intuitive.  Seems to work now, but while it liked "fifty" as a name, it balked at "twenty-five".  Go figure.

 

J.

"At sea" is a common idiom throughout the USA meaning bewildered, confused, perplexed.

 

Sometime using a number as a spoken rather than spelling it out works.

 

Turning a program On runs THEN, turning it Off runs Else. If you want to invoke the condition (i.e., run If), then you'll need to invoke IZZY, that is, "Alexa, tell IZZY to run program_name."

 

 

"At sea" is a common idiom throughout the USA meaning bewildered, confused, perplexed.

In my 62 years, and 18 military installations I've never heard that.

 

 

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In my 62 years, and 18 military installations I've never heard that.

 

 

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Obviously, you're still too young and have lots more world traveling to do!

"gone north" is another one.

I hadn't heard it before either but figured it must be something like that from context.

 

hmmmmm.. "con", "text".. never mind!

In my 62 years, and 18 military installations I've never heard that.

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Perhaps, but I confirmed that meaning from the internet, so it must be true.

Perhaps, but I confirmed that meaning from the internet, so it must be true.

And everything on the Internet is true.

 

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And everything on the Internet is true.

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They put it in writing....?

 

...oh but they thought they were anonymous too...

Roget's Thesaurus, a somewhat trusted print medium since 1805, provides more than 40 synonyms for "at sea" including "punch drunk" and "out-to-lunch."

Roget's Thesaurus, a somewhat trusted print medium since 1805, provides more than 40 synonyms for "at sea" including "punch drunk" and "out-to-lunch."

 

Then it settled - Gary Funk simply hasn't lived long enough and traveled the world to know!

Maybe he's at sea.

Roget's Thesaurus, a somewhat trusted print medium since 1805, provides more than 40 synonyms for "at sea" including "punch drunk" and "out-to-lunch."

It also defines antidisestablishmentarianism but that doesn't mean it's common.

 

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It also defines antidisestablishmentarianism but that doesn't mean it's common.

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Didn't everybody learn that word, and how to spell it, at about 10 years of age, as a novelty word?

Maybe I am just not common or twisted enough to use it though?

Didn't everybody learn that word, and how to spell it, at about 10 years of age, as a novelty word?

Maybe I am just not common or twisted enough to use it though?

 

That makes it common.

 

Here's an even longer made-up word that actually made it to the Oxford dictionary: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

That makes it common.

 

Here's an even longer made-up word that actually made it to the Oxford dictionary: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Even longer is

"antisupercalifragilisticexpialidocious".

 

But the longest yet is.

 

..."smiles"

 

It has a mile between two "s"es.

Edited November 30, 20169 yr by larryllix

Didn't everybody learn that word, and how to spell it, at about 10 years of age, as a novelty word?

Maybe I am just not common or twisted enough to use it though?

More like 45 years ago thanks to Monty Python and Black Adder.

 

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Edited November 30, 20169 yr by GaryFunk

More like 45 years ago thanks to Monty Python and Black Adder.

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I run python3.4 but not Monty???

I run python3.4 but not Monty???

So sad.

 

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