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Jim8899
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I'm new to PH, and so far I've been able to figure most of it out. The problem I'm having is I have an I/O linc to contol garage doors that are on the inside of the glass of a greenhouse. I want to be able to open the doors at sunrise and close them at sunset to keep the heat in at night. I can't seem to contol them with PH. The I/O linc is set up for Momentary C, so ON will only open the doors if closed, and OFF will only close the doors if open. I set up a keypadlinc and that works great. I set up an Insteon HUB, and it also works. Sending an ON or OFF command from Device Status doesn't work, and can't get macros to work either. I am controlling lights and a fan in the greenhouse with macros so I know signals are getting there. Using a PLM 2413U. Any help would be great!
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Making progress, I think... If the door is closed, an ON command should open it. In Device Status, sending the ON command does work. Sending an OFF command should now close it. It seems like PH always thinks the status if the I/O Linc is off, so sending the OFF command from Device Status doesn't work, unless I send an ON command and then the OFF command. I'm guessing PH checks the status of the device and ignores the OFF command because it thinks it is already off. So I'm closer there, but I still can't get macros to work. With the door closed, sending FAST ON command doesn't work, and I've also tried the ON command (some clarification here would help). Sure have been getting my exercise walking back and forth to the greenhouse...
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nick7920
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I am not at home to get my full notes but here is what
I think can help.
I/O link device name in PH for example is
greenhouse_Relay
you can check the door status which comes from sensor
side, for example : jump command
if ph_insteonwithret("greenhouse_Relay",25,1)=0,1,20)
(in my case 0 is for door is Open)
(sensor is the one which tells the on or off status of
door)
then to open and close for door is sent by
ph_insteon('greenhouse_Relay',17,255)
I have my door set up as Momentary Mode like garage
door button pressed. so command is same for open or
close the door , just like you press the garage door
button.
also when you first include the device , I think the
door status of sensor depends ON or OFF at that time.
so make sure what is return for your case for the
command of ph_insteonwithret.
Nick
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Jim8899
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Awesome Nick! Got the Macros working! Now just set up some Timed Events and I'm cooking with fire. Quite the learning curve, but PowerHome is a great program! Thanks for the help!!
Jim
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Jim,
Another thing you may want to look at is creating
Analog I/O devices (in PowerHome Explorer under
PowerHome|Devices|Analog I/O). You can create a
virtual device that represents the input portion of
the IOLinc as well as a virtual device that represents
the relay portion of the IOLinc. This may give you
some additional control. The virtual devices will also
properly follow the current configuration of the
IOLinc ie if the IOLinc is set to momentary, sending
an On command will turn the relay On and then will
update to reflect that the output is Off after a short
delay. The Insteon device (which is unaware of any
particulars of how the IOLinc actually works) will
only reflect the status as it is set.
If you send an On or Off command to an IOLinc, that
command should always be sent (you can watch the Raw
Insteon log in the Insteon Explorer) whatever the
status of the input (PowerHome does not do any
conditional checking).
It definitely sounds like you're making excellent
progress though so let me know if you have any other
questions or problems.
Dave.
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Jim8899
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Thanks Dave, I'll keep that in mind for future projects. Garage doors have been working flawlessly (Knock on wood) for the past week.
Jim
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