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Plano_Mike
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How do I do the above?
The buttons don't show up as devices, even if I try to link them in discover mode...
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You can only control them from a group command (not my idea, SmartHomes  ).
Go to the group by controller screen and right-click and select the Create/Edit/Clone option. Create a new group with the PLC as the master. Choose whatever group number you wish to use. Add the KeypadLinc as a responder and then scroll all the way to the right and then type in the button number. On a 6 button KPL, the A button is number 3 (always think of a KPL as having 8 buttons).
Then use the ph_insteonrawgroup function or the new macro command "Insteon Raw Group" to either turn this group on or off and you will be controlling the LED of the KPL button (you won't be controlling ANY of the devices actually linked to that button unless you ALSO add them to the group).
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That indeed helps!
Thanks.
Mike
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Interesting...
I set up a KPL upstairs with the intention of using it to control three Insteon 2476D (wall switch) dimmer modules in my basement. The idea was, by looking at whether the button on the KPL was lit ot not, to know whether I've left any lights turned on in the basement, or if all of them are off.
At first I thought this would be a simple matter of cross-linking the KPL button to each of the three 2476Ds, and vice-versa. The problem with this is that the instant you turn off any one of the three basement lights at its local 2476D, it causes the KPL button upstairs to turn off- even though the other two basement lights are still on.
I want the KPL button to stay lit unless and until all three basement lights have been turned off locally (or, of course, by pressing the lit KPL button upstairs). Perhaps I can use a macro to do this- or is there an easier way that I'm just not seeing?
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Dave,
You could accomplish this using triggers and creating a group with the PLC as the controller and the KPL button as the responder and vice versa. Don't link any of the SwitchLincs to the KPL button otherwise you'll get the behaviour you describe.
The only problem with this solution, is that PowerHome has to be running in order for it to work.
After you've done the above linking, you'll need to create a trigger for the "off" command on each of the three switchlincs. In the boolean field of each trigger, check the status of the other two switchlincs using ph_getinsteonstat. If the other two SwitchLincs are off, then make the trigger action be a ph_insteonrawgroup function to turn the KPL button off.
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