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Lenny
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I have a PLC Group "All Lights" All devices have this group in them. I have another plc group "Midnight Snack" Path to kitchen is lit with dim lighting".
A Powerhome trigger is fired when a button on a keypad is pressed for firing "Midnight Snack" PLC Group. If I press the that button again all if fine. If I press my "All Lights Off" button the lights go out but the Device Status for "Midnight Snack" Group is still on.
I know I could have my "All Lights Off" button/trigger fire a macro to turn off PLC Groups "All Lights" and "Midnight Snack" but is there a better way to do this. At this point I don't even care what the status of the group is... In fact if I could hide "Midnight Snack" PLC group from DS that would be great.
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TonyNo
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I think you can just set the Control Only flag for it in the Insteon Explorer, Devices tab.
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Try this.
For your All Lights Off trigger make the trigger Action Type Raw Formula and your Action ph_insteongroup("All Lights",19,0) + ph_insteongroup("Midnight Snack",19,0). Now your All Lights Off button should turn off both the All Lights group and the Midnight Snack group.
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Lenny
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Brady your suggestion works. It saves a cpu cycle or two by not using the macro. :)Thanks.
Tony,
I read that somewhere too but PLC groups are not listed in IE Devices Tab. It would be nice to prevent it from showing up in Device Status. A checkbox in the plc group tab would make sense.
Anyone know the status of the new beta?
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TonyNo
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Oops. 
You can use the Filter field (enter "N" for this example) in the Groups tab and then, in the Device Status screen, click on Filter and type this: filterval not like '%N%'.
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I've tried this, and I enter my Noshow filter value and it wipes them out everytime I hit save/refresh 
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Hmm. I've heard others speak of this, but I've never seen it.
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Lenny
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Same thing for me Cicero...
Edited by Lenny - August 16 2008 at 08:19
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I had the same problem with the Noshow filter. One way to hide Groups from a previous post by Dave:
“To keep the Insteon groups from showing in the Device Status screen, set the filter to "type <> 6" without the quotes. This will keep the Insteon groups from showing.”
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Lenny
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Thanks... That does work and is good to know. But I don't want to filter out ALL of the PLC groups. I want a few to stay like my "ALL LIGHTS" group. Hopefully this bug is fixed in the new version.
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I may have found a way to filter a particular Group. Using the name only in the ID window of the Group you want to hide and add this filter and replace the xxx with ID. ID NOT= 'xxxxx'
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Lenny
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Pete... This works and is a usable work around until the PLC Group filter is fixed.
Thanks
Lenny
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