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What do you mean by that? I have a bunch of these and they work 100% of the time.

As far as I can tell, the only way to use the portal for ISY to signal Alexa is to use either the motion sensor or contact closure variable setup. The "spoken" in these cases I think is irrelevant since Alexa only responds to the state of these variables, it doesn't control them in any way. Anyway, after all my screwing around to get the variables working with Alexa, I am going to stick with using the webhooks. The webhooks always work in a second or two. I am using them for a few things including opening and closing my Levelor blinds. If you push the button to close/open the blinds and then 20 seconds later they finally do it, well that stinks. My wife would certainly complain and this would just be something to try to explain to guests, well if you want the blinds closed push the button and then sometime in the next 30 seconds they will do it.

I finally got this working. Benoit at UD gave me all kinds of suggestions, none of which worked. He said all looked fine on his end. I called Amazon customer support and actually got a person. After 90 minutes on the phone they got it to work. However, I have noticed it is not fast to respond. I have it on contact closure and sometimes it takes 20 seconds or more to respond. Fastest I have seen is maybe 3 or 4 seconds.

I did a ticket and they said the token had expired and I needed to click on "switch portal profile" which renewed the token. Apparently if you have two ISY's on the same portal account, the token can expire on one and not the other even though they are both on the same portal login (my other ISY/PG3x was working fine the whole time). Apparently logging in from different computers and rebooting ISY doesn't renew the token. "Switch Profile" was the necessary step. Never would have figured that out on my own. And the token only applies to the purchasing part of the PG3x admin console.

You do this by using the "command" feature in the favorites. Start by hitting the plus to create a favorite Under type, select "command" Select the display node as you wish Select the "add command" at the bottom (it will tell you have to save first, go ahead and click to save) It opens up the command config page. Select the programs option and whatever program and whatever you want the program to do. You can also further customize the display node by using configure advanced options and have it be different colors and stuff depending on the state.

Running 6.0.4 on Polisy. I open PG3x console and navigate to the store, open a node, click "install" and nothing happens. Nothing, no errors, nothing. Tried multiple. I navigate to "purchases", and it forever says "retrieving purchases. . " I rebooted Polisy I tried from both the 3000 port as well as using the Eisy UI interface. Same story.

The whole purpose of having the light status in there is because CHANGES in light status will then retrigger the program. That is what you want, as soon as any of the 4 lights finishes its countdown it will change the light status and then disable itself taking it out of the mix. But when its light changes status, it will retrigger the remaining programs that haven't finished and start them over. You will start with 4 programs running, then 3, then 2, then 1 then none. If you really want to be 100% sure this works, use two status clauses for each light since the light can't be two status' at the same time, it will always trigger true. ie If light x is not 1% or light x is not 0% The above if clause will always run true any time the status of light x changes. EDIT: Another way to do this is to use the true/false status as a retrigger. Have each program where the countdown runs to zero, run its own else clause to change it from true to false. Then the other programs will all retrigger on it. Program W If time is sunset or program x is true or prgram x is false or program y is true or program y is false or program z is ture or program z is false then wait 10 seconds repeat while $iW is > 0 $iW = $iW - 1 wait 1 second repeat 1 time turn on light w run else program W Else disable program w So the above program would be duplicated changing out the variables as appropriate for each of the 4 (or more) lights. All 4 programs would run at sunset. The program that finishes first will become false and disable itself. The other 3 will retrigger when this program turns false. Then the process repeats starting with the 3 remaining programs . . .then 2 . . then the last one. EDIT: I actually wrote the program in ISY and copied it to here. Program W - [ID 0001][Parent 0093] If Time Is Sunset Or Program 'Program X' is False Or Program 'Program X' is True Or Program 'Program Y' is False Or Program 'Program Y' is True Or Program 'Program Z' is False Or Program 'Program Z' is True Then Wait 10 seconds Repeat While $i.zW > 0 $i.zW -= 1 Wait 1 second Repeat 1 times Set 'Light W' On Run Program 'Program W' (Else Path) Else Disable Program 'Program W' The above program will run at sunset (making itself true). wait 10 seconds, count down the variable, turn on its light, change itself to false, and disable itself. UNLESS, one of the other 3 programs beats it, in which case the other program will turn false before this finishes. That will re-trigger this program and it will start all over from the beginning.

I wrote this program and can confirm it works. Every time I do a "run then" command on it, the 4 variables get randomly assigned a 1,2,3,or 4 with no two being the same. I used 4 here because it proves it works. But you can just as easily make it 30 or whatever. Since you already get the countdown method, then that shouldn't be an issue. Regarding the time allotted. Just figure out what the max possible is. So for example wait 10 plus some random amount between 0 and 30, then the max for each run is roughly 40 times 4 or 160 seconds. So give yourself 3 minutes. Finally, you need a program to do a "run then" on the program "Random" I wrote below. Like If time is sunset minus 10, run then program Random. Random - [ID 0089][Parent 0093] If $i.zW is $i.zX Or $i.zW is $i.zY Or $i.zW is $i.zZ Or $i.zX is $i.zY Or $i.zX is $i.zZ Or $i.zY is $i.zZ Then $i.zW = Random 4 $i.zX = Random 4 $i.zY = Random 4 $i.zZ = Random 4 Run Program 'Random' (If) Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')

I did think of a way to eliminate the risk of two lights coming on at same time, but it is involved. You would need 4 variables. Set the 4 to random values. Then you would need to compare the values to make sure none are equal and if so regenerate values. Once all 4 are different you use those values in the above programs. However, a wait can not be assigned a variable. You need to use "repeat while variable greater than 0" and a 1 second wait. Each repeat subtracts 1 from the variable until it hits 0 at which point the program continues.

The following would generate a random order of lights turning on with each turning on between 10 and 40 seconds apart. There is a 1 in 30 chance that two lights will turn on at the same time the way I wrote it, otherwise always a min of 10 seconds, max of 40 seconds and always random order. I don't know a way to stop this. If you increase your random wait time portion, you reduce the chance of two being the same. This is for 4 lights (w, x, y, z) 1) put the 4 programs in a folder that is only active for the time that this is happening (ie sunset minus 1 to sunset plus 4 minutes) 2) create 4 programs, one for each light, as follows but make the obvious changes Program w If time is sunset or if status of light x is not some percentage that it would never be on (ie not the percent you have it set to default come on to) <the point of this status line is to use the change in status to reset the program when one of the others turns on> or if status of light y . . . or if status of light z. . . . then wait 10 seconds wait 30 second random turn on light w disable program w 3) finally, a 5th program that re-enables all of these programs shortly before the run time. If time is sunset minus 30 seconds then enable program w enable program x enable program y enable program z

I think you are doing both ways (Alexa voice to isy, isy back to Alexa via a variable triggering a routine. I am pretty sure a voice command can directly trigger a scene though, so not sure you would need to have Alexa use a routine on that at all. I have a number of voice commands that directly trigger Insteon devices without need for a routine. I opened a ticket with UD since my variable changes are not being seen by Alexa and thus my routines are not running.

@PB11 You are talking about a different thing here. This is ISY telling Alexa to do something, not Alexa telling ISY to do something. And yes, I have tried deleting variables, and I have added additional variables and exposed them to Alexa. But Alexa, as can be seen from the screenshot, says the device is not responding or sometimes it says the server isn't responding (whose server I don't know). Of course ISY is working with Alexa in the other direction, I can tell Alexa to do something with ISY and indeed ISY does whatever. And I am not using switches or a program at all to change the variable state. I am manually changing the variable, so I know it is changing.

@Guy Lavoie I think you are referring to status update. I am speaking of syncing the devices themselves (adding/removing/etc), not their current status. But in my case, I'm not noticing any difference in status populating upon opening. When I open the app, things populate like popcorn, sorting of randomly about.

@Mr B @ISY4Me Yes, this is what I am experiencing. I also have noticed that doing a sync is nothing like it used to be. It is taking very little time, not going through anywhere near all the flashing names of stuff that it used to, and when it "finishes" it isn't giving me the usual finished screen with the option to delete unused values.

Alexa and ISY are communicating fine for all of my voice commands to Alexa. I can't imagine that my configuration in the portal is wrong. Not a whole lot to do wrong. I chose "2" as the detected value, but I also tried 1.