Hello gents, it’s been a while and I forgot how to do this and I’m driving myself crazy. When I have a scene on, let’s say scene called cabinet. On the eight button are you see to turn on the cabinet. No problem but when I want the scene that turns on cabinet to be on I want the LEDC to stay lit. In other words if I tell Alexa to turn on the cabinet light, I want the LED to light up also without push pushing the button. Anybody have an idea how I did it in the past sure would like to know.

Try to put the light and the button into a scene and then link that scene to Alexa.

Or less elegant is to have Alexa linked to the light and then have a program that checks the state of the light and turns on / off the button, which would be in a scene by itself.

Edited February 15Feb 15 by dbwarner5

@dbwarner5 said it well. The key point is, you can only make buttons go on and off as part of a scene that gets activated, manually or programmatically. There's no way around that, and it seems to be the thing most people forget when they haven't programmed their Insteon devices in a long time. Or if you're coming from a Lutron background, where the processor always tracks the state of all devices and turns on LEDs whenever the corresponding devices are in the correct state, no matter how they got that way. If you want that kind of behavior, you have to write the logic yourself.

-Tom

I have an isy at the moment, I did it once before but forgot how I did it. Like I said I want the button to light up when the the light that is assignd to the button turns on and stay on til the light is out. This is when I tell Alex to turn it on. I dont want to use Alexa to light that button I want it all to be in the IsY

Ps I got it to work ooce, but then when I tell alexa to turn it on again it dosent work

You marked the solution.. did you get it to work consistently? you need to make sure in the Portal that the Alexa link has the correct verbal command you want and the correct link to the Scene in ISY where you have the light and the button.

Sometimes Alexa can be finicky with new links: May need to ask Alexa to discover new devices, and then even though it shows up, it doesn't always work consistently for about 24 hours.

Here a new one the new Alexa app stinks, when I ask it for scenes. It doesn’t find them, any new ones. Now for shits and giggles. I used the ipy portal and looked under connectivity google. And  this is what I found. There are  scenes in there.   This what the Alexa app is pulling from. Now I’m really confused

3 hours ago, Dand said:

Here a new one the new Alexa app stinks, when I ask it for scenes. It doesn’t find them, any new ones. Now for shits and giggles. I used the ipy portal and looked under connectivity google. And  this is what I found. There are  scenes in there.   This what the Alexa app is pulling from. Now I’m really confused

This is screwy, but. . .

If you have an Insteon/ISY scene and you want Alexa to control it as if it were a single light, you just tell Alexa it is a light when you set it up in the ISY portal. When you add the scene, you need to start from the scenes tab so the portal gives you a list of all your scenes to select from, but from within the "spoken mapping" setup page, select that it is a light in the Alexa category.