Insteon Plugin Beta

[Promixis]

Guys,

The above will not work... ie if G tells the Switchlinc to turn on, the Switchlinc will not tell the keypad button to turn on. You can link the keypad button to a Group - see the keypadlinc tab and use the link to PLC group. Also add the same switchlinc to the group (Group Manager tab).

[Sub-Routine]

Direct control of an Insteon device does not cause that device to send a group command. You will have to create a group in which the PLC is controller and the SwitchLink and the KeypadLinc are responders. Then call that group to turn the light and the keypad indicator on and off.

Rand

edit: What Mike said...

[Billmans]

I am using g4 for production and g5 for testing. Is there a way to do it in each?

I have just started looking at g5.

Bill

Mike, still trying to figure this out. I have started to play with G5, but I would like to figure out a way for G4 for now.

As for G5 I can not get the default flat CCF to display my lights yet. I will keep playing with this.

Thanks
Bill

[Doomer!]

Mike,

Ron said you were out of town - and now you're back...

Welcome back!

I'm still awaiting a way to get Insteon to work on a NetRemote client - using Girder 5 Alpha.

Soon my trial period will be up, and I will be forced to commit pre-maturely.

;-)

Thanks,

Jack

[Promixis]

Mike,

Ron said you were out of town - and now you're back...

Welcome back!

I'm still awaiting a way to get Insteon to work on a NetRemote client - using Girder 5 Alpha.

Soon my trial period will be up, and I will be forced to commit pre-maturely.

;-)

Thanks,

Jack

Jack, we will get you up and running...

Lets move this to the G5 forum. Start a new post there. Too confirm, you can see your insteon devices in the Device Manager pages of G (not the Insteon pages)?

[Promixis]

Mike, still trying to figure this out. I have started to play with G5, but I would like to figure out a way for G4 for now.

As for G5 I can not get the default flat CCF to display my lights yet. I will keep playing with this.

Thanks
Bill

Bill, you can have both but I would suggest only installing G5. I have it running full time here and you should be fine with that as your main install.

Post in the G5 forum re issues about devices not showing up.

[Doomer!]

Jack, we will get you up and running...

Lets move this to the G5 forum. Start a new post there.

As I'm using v512, I will update to v515 prior to posting anew about the issues herein.

I need to know the best way to preform said update...

Too confirm, you can see your insteon devices in the Device Manager pages of G (not the Insteon pages)?

Yes.

And I was able to name them all, too.

[vitello]

I am trying to use the Start Bright/Stop Bright and
Start Dim/Stop Dim commands using lua. I see in the
variable display that Start Bright and Start Dim both
have comand value 23 and Stop Bright and Stop Dim both
have command value 24. I played around using

Insteon.DeviceCommands.SendGroupBroadcast(mygroup, 23)

and

Insteon.DeviceCommands.SendGroupBroadcast(mygroup, 24)

and found that I was getting what looked like Start Dim and Stop Dim.
How can I get Start Bright and Stop Bright commands to work?

(By the way, programing with girder and lua is a lot of fun.)

[Sub-Routine]

The 23 command to start changing level is followed with a 0 (dim) or a 1 (brighten).

Insteon.DeviceCommands.SendGroupBroadcast(mygroup, 23, 1)
should start to brighten.

[vitello]

The 23 command to start changing level is followed with a 0 (dim) or a 1 (brighten).

Insteon.DeviceCommands.SendGroupBroadcast(mygroup, 23, 1)
should start to brighten.

I got the start changing levels command to work with groups, but it seems to be ignoring the group rate settings. I wanted to setup groups with only a single device, but with a long ramp rate, and use the start/stop changing levels command to dynamically dim and brighten. The group commands on and off use the long ramp rates I have set for the group, but the start/stop changing level commands seem to be using the device local ramp rate. Is the an insteon issue?