ritchcc Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 Hi guys, I've been holding off asking this question because I didn't want to show my ignorance but I need some help. I've installed an I/Olinc and magnetic sensor to control and status my garage door. No problem there but the settings are confusing to me. What I want is to simply open and close the garage door using mobilinc on my phone or iPad. I can do that now but I have to click the garage door relay (in Mobilinc) twice to get it to engage the opener. What settings do I use to have the garage door open with one click and close on the next? The sensor is working fine to show whether the door is open or closed. Link to comment
oberkc Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 I have mine set to "momentary A" mode, responding to either (both) ON and OFF. If I send an ON signal, or an OFF signal, it is as if I toggled the factory remote. I use android mobilinc. Don't know if IOS is the same. From mobilinc, I choose the IOLinc relay, and press ON or OFF. It makes no difference in my case. Link to comment
Brian H Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 It does sound like the relay is in the continuous mode. First time you turn it On it goes On and stays there. Like you are holding the button. So you send a command and it turns back Off. Then the next turns it back On to then have the door go its other position. Link to comment
ritchcc Posted May 1, 2018 Author Share Posted May 1, 2018 No It was in Momentary B. I just switched it to Momentary A but it's had no effect. I still have to turn off the relay and then turn it back on to affect the garage door. Maybe I just have to live with it. Link to comment
oberkc Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 In retrospect, I had it backwards. Momentary B responds to both. Momentary A responds to either (but not both). Do you have any other options checked? Specifically, do you have "relay follows input" selected? What is your momentary hold time? Mine is 2sec. Make sure it is not some extraordinary duration. Link to comment
ritchcc Posted May 2, 2018 Author Share Posted May 2, 2018 18 hours ago, oberkc said: In retrospect, I had it backwards. Momentary B responds to both. Momentary A responds to either (but not both). Do you have any other options checked? Specifically, do you have "relay follows input" selected? What is your momentary hold time? Mine is 2sec. Make sure it is not some extraordinary duration. I do not have "Relay Follows Input" option selected and my momentary hold time is also 2 secs. ISY seems to be writing the option changes to the I/Olinc but nothing seems to change in the operation. Link to comment
oberkc Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 As near as I can tell, all looks good and proper. Based upon my experience, this should work. When in mobilinc, you choose the relay, itself, correct? You are NOT picking a scene, or another device by chance? Does the same thing happen when you select the relay from the ISY admin panel? Is it possible you have a program triggered by the sensor? Very strange. I am running out of ideas. Link to comment
ritchcc Posted May 2, 2018 Author Share Posted May 2, 2018 18 minutes ago, oberkc said: As near as I can tell, all looks good and proper. Based upon my experience, this should work. When in mobilinc, you choose the relay, itself, correct? You are NOT picking a scene, or another device by chance? Does the same thing happen when you select the relay from the ISY admin panel? Is it possible you have a program triggered by the sensor? Very strange. I am running out of ideas. Yes I'm picking the relay itself. I haven't created any programs with the sensor. It's just to tell me, along with a camera, the status of the garage door. It's odd but I just tried pressing ON again even though it was already showing the on status and it triggered the relay. It would seem this is not what is supposed to happen but......it'll work for me. Link to comment
ritchcc Posted May 2, 2018 Author Share Posted May 2, 2018 And Thanks for all your help oberkc. It does happen from the ISY admin panel as well as mobilinc so I'm sure it's probably the I/OLinc that's acting weird. I've had it for maybe two years and just installed it for the first time last month. Link to comment
oberkc Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Keep in mind that the "relay" part of the IOLinc does not report status (thus cannot be a scene controller). Compare this to the sensor, which DOES report status and CAN be a scene controller, but does not respond to commands. Given this, the status of the relay, as shown in the ISY admin panel, will be the last sent command, regardless of momentary/latching mode. If you last sent an ON command, the status will show ON until an OFF command is sent, even thought the relay turns itself off after 2 seconds. So, even though the relay shows ON, it may be off. Sending another ON command will toggle it again, given you have it properly set in momentary mode. Link to comment
ritchcc Posted May 3, 2018 Author Share Posted May 3, 2018 13 hours ago, oberkc said: Keep in mind that the "relay" part of the IOLinc does not report status (thus cannot be a scene controller). Compare this to the sensor, which DOES report status and CAN be a scene controller, but does not respond to commands. Given this, the status of the relay, as shown in the ISY admin panel, will be the last sent command, regardless of momentary/latching mode. If you last sent an ON command, the status will show ON until an OFF command is sent, even thought the relay turns itself off after 2 seconds. So, even though the relay shows ON, it may be off. Sending another ON command will toggle it again, given you have it properly set in momentary mode. Thanks for that info. Now it makes perfect sense. Link to comment
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