Universal Devices Inc. Is making home automation products as commonplace and affordable as phones, cable/DSL modems, and set-top boxes. The UDI Wiki is the central place for help with our products so please have a look around. ISY-99/994i PDF User Guide (3.3.10) - Last User Guide for 99 Series. What you need to do is to use ISY Admin. In order to access ISY994 programming, the user needs to start the admin console which is a java application. Recently, most browsers including Chrome and Firefox have started to block plug-ins including java so to access your ISY you will need to download the java app from your ISY and create a link. ISY-994i QuickStart: Accessing the java application It’s been a while since I’ve written here, and wow do I have a backlog of posts I want to get written! Let’s get started with a “ QuickStart ” mini-series to help out those of you just getting started with the ISY-994i. ISY-99i Series Recording Equipment pdf manual download. Also for: Isy-994i series. Universal Devices ISY-99i Series User Manual. Creating a desktop icon so you can launch the Admin Console quickly and easily. Finally, the Admin Console tab launches the ISY’s Administrative Console, which does require Java.
Homebridge platform plugin to make virtual accessories as defined by ISY-994i variables.
This plugin is intended to compliment the excellent homebridge-isy-js plugin by rodtoll. While homebridge-isy-js helps HomeKit understand your ISY-controlled Insteon & Z-Wave devices, there are situations where it'd be desirable to trigger an ISY program or Network Resource as well.
For example: I have a TV that receives infrared ON/OFF commands from my iTach WF2IR, which is controlled by my ISY via Network Resources. I can create an ISY program that runs an ON or OFF Network Resource, triggered whenever an ISY state variable's value is modified. And if I name this state variable in a special way (detailed below), this Homebridge plugin will make a virtual accessory available to HomeKit!
npm install -g homebridgenpm install -g homebridge-isy-makerplatform - Must be set to isy-makername - Can be set to whatever you wanthost - IP address of the ISYusername - Your ISY usernamepassword - Your ISY passwordprefix - Your variables' prefix. Default is hb.Each ISY variable represents a HomeKit accessory, service and characterstic. Only one service per accessory is supported, but this service may have mulitple characteristics. Services with multiple characterstics are represented with multiple variables---so long as they have a common name and service, these characteristics will be grouped together.
Variables names are composed of 4 or 5 segment, separated by dots. The first segment is the prefix (default hb), and that just flags this variable for use with Homebridge. The second segment is the accessory name (underscores will be displayed as spaces). The third segment is the service type, and the fourth segment is the characteristic type (valid services and characteristics can be found here). The fifth segment is optional, but you can override a characterstic's default props (keys and values are separated by underscores, and N is swapped for the negative - ).
Here's a full example, showing the structure:
The plugin will check for changes to the list of variable names every 10 seconds. New accessories will then be added to HomeKit, or new characteristics will be added to existing accessories if it already exists. It works in reverse, and characterstics will be removed if those variables are removed, and if an accessory no longer has any variables, that accessory will be removed as well.
Note: when adding/removing characteristics, you may need to force-quit and re-launch Apple's Home app to get the new UI to render.
This isn't an exhaustive list of HomeKit accessories (that list would be found here), but here's some common examples. Keep in mind, Apple's Home app doesn't currently support everything (for example, volume), but many 3rd party HomeKit apps do just fine.
hb.My_Television.Switch.On
hb.My_Heater.Outlet.Onhb.My_Heater.Outlet.OutletInUse
hb.My_Fan.Onhb.My_Fan.RotationDirectionhb.My_Fan.RotationSpeed
hb.My_Chandelier.Lightbulb.On
hb.My_Sconce.Lightbulb.Onhb.My_Sconce.Lightbulb.Brightness
hb.My_Lamp.Lightbulb.Onhb.My_Lamp.Lightbulb.Brightnesshb.My_Lamp.Lightbulb.Huehb.My_Lamp.Lightbulb.Saturation
Download system transparency windows 10 windows 10. hb.My_Contact_Sensor.ContactSensor.ContactSensorState
hb.My_Motion_Sensor.MotionSensor.MotionSensorState
hb.My_Occupancy_Sensor.OccupancySensor.OccupancyDetected
hb.My_Thermometer.TemperatureSensor.CurrentTemperature
hb.My_Thermostat.Thermostat.CurrentTemperaturehb.My_Thermostat.Thermostat.TargetTemperaturehb.My_Thermostat.Thermostat.CurrentHeatingCoolingStatehb.My_Thermostat.Thermostat.TargetHeatingCoolingStatehb.My_Thermostat.Thermostat.TemperatureDisplayUnits
hb.My_Stereo.Speaker.Mutehb.My_Stereo.Speaker.Volume
hb.My_Mic.Microphone.Mutehb.My_Mic.Microphone.Volume
tldr: restart the Homebridge process after making ISY variable name changes to fix realtime updates.
There is a small bug I haven't been able to squash, and I would appreciate if anyone can point out the fix. Normally, realtime updates work great: the Home app is open, you change an ISY variable's value externally, and the associated accessory updates instantly. However, this realtime updating seems to get lost whenever variable name changes are detected and characteristics/accessories are added/removed. The new characterstic will receive realtime updates, but all the other accessories won't. Normal on-demand updates still work fine: when the Home app is closed and reopened, all values are updated. Also, the websocket continues to receive messages, but updating the characteristic with the new value does nothing.
And, stranger: this bug causes realtime updates to other homebridge accessories to be broken too! Which makes me wonder if it's a deeper problem? Everything works fine again after restarting the Homebridge process, so it's not hard to work-around, but I'd like to avoid that requirement if possible.