chasi0613 Posted April 13, 2009 Posted April 13, 2009 I'm having a strange issue with an ApplicanceLinc I'm trying to control with a KeypadLinc button and also using a schedule program. Here's the scenario. I have set up a Scene that contains both the ApplianceLinc and the KPL button that I want to control it with. I also have a program that will automatically set the scene to ON at 4am and OFF at noon. I added the KPL to the scene first as a controller and then add the ApplianceLinc to the Scene second as the responder because this was the only way that I could make sure that when the schedule programs turned the ApplianceLinc on and off, that the KPL button's light would stay in sync. Unfortunately, the above scenario only seemed to work once and then I would start seeing issues where either the KPL button status was incorrect or the ApplianceLinc would not get turned on by the program even when the KPL button was turned on. Everytime this problem would happen I found that the order of the ApplianceLinc and the KPL button had been switched in the scene so that the ApplianceLinc was first and the KPL button was second! I would then remove them both, add them again in the proper order and have the same thing happen again. Since then I have added more ApplianceLinc / KPL button scenes and had the same issue with some of them but not others and that's when I discovered it appears as though what is happening is that the ISY is automatically reordering the ApplianceLinc and KPL buttons in alphabetical order and that is throwing off the scene functionality if the ApplianceLinc's name comes before the KPL button's name alphabetically. My temporary fix for this issue is to go back and rename the ApplicanceLinc's and KPL buttons so that the KPL button names come first alphabetically, but this is a bit annoying. Has anyone else ever seen this problem and is there any other way around this? Thanks, Chas ISY 99I/IR Pro running v2.7.0 firmware
Sub-Routine Posted April 13, 2009 Posted April 13, 2009 Hi Chas, It does not matter what order devices are added to scenes (or listed), they are all notified at the same time of any changes with a group broadcast. It sounds very much as if you have poor communication between the PLM and your other devices. Please see these pages: Communication_Troubleshooting. Some troubleshooting tips from Steve at Smarthome. Thank you, Rand
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