TheA2Z Posted April 27, 2023 Share Posted April 27, 2023 Just bought the Elk node today and I am setting up. So far so good. One thing I cant figure out is how do I have an eisy program push an Elk Keypad F# button? In ISY I had a program that if leak detector had a leak, it would programmatically push the F5 button on the ELK keypad to cause the Elk to voice announce a water alarm. I also use it to voice announce a mailbox open alarm by pushing another Keypad F key. Please let me know how I can do this. Thanks! Link to comment
Solution DennisC Posted April 29, 2023 Solution Share Posted April 29, 2023 On 4/27/2023 at 7:47 PM, TheA2Z said: Just bought the Elk node today and I am setting up. So far so good. One thing I cant figure out is how do I have an eisy program push an Elk Keypad F# button? In ISY I had a program that if leak detector had a leak, it would programmatically push the F5 button on the ELK keypad to cause the Elk to voice announce a water alarm. I also use it to voice announce a mailbox open alarm by pushing another Keypad F key. Please let me know how I can do this. Thanks! There is an open issue regarding this. Currently, you can only trigger a program via function keys based on Status of Last Key. You can read more about it here: For now, a work around is to set an Elk output when a F key is pressed and then run the program when the output turns on/off. As described here: However, in your case, you are looking to press a F key to have Elk speak, but I would ask why do it that way? Why not just have the Elk node server tell Elk to speak the words? Link to comment
TheA2Z Posted April 29, 2023 Author Share Posted April 29, 2023 Thanks @DennisC For the mailbox voice alert, that is what I do just speak the words as you show. For the water alarm, I want for it to actually activate the siren alarm in the house as well. I programed a key on Elk keypad to set off water alarm that worked great with ISY. I can do the speak words option for it as well. Looks like it is in the enhancement list. So I will use the words option for both alerts. Link to comment
DennisC Posted April 29, 2023 Share Posted April 29, 2023 12 minutes ago, TheA2Z said: Thanks @DennisC For the mailbox voice alert, that is what I do just speak the words as you show. For the water alarm, I want for it to actually activate the siren alarm in the house as well. I programed a key on Elk keypad to set off water alarm that worked great with ISY. I can do the speak words option for it as well. Looks like it is in the enhancement list. So I will use the words option for both alerts. You can still either chirp the siren alarm x times or have the keypad beep. All you need to do is go to ElkRP2 and enable an output, you can call it Siren or whatever you want. Next, create a rule that when the named output (ex: Siren) turns on, then either chirp the siren x times, or beep keypad, or both. Back in ISY - Polisy - eisy, add to the Then portion of your program to turn the output you just created (ex: Siren) on for x time, or even cycle it on/off several times to get the desired effect. Link to comment
TheA2Z Posted April 29, 2023 Author Share Posted April 29, 2023 @DennisCThanks. Ill test it out. Link to comment
TheA2Z Posted May 18, 2023 Author Share Posted May 18, 2023 @DennisC Thanks, I'm good to go. Had elk node do the talking instead of using Function key in ELK. 1 Link to comment
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