I have been reading and experimenting for hours but several things still are troublesome. It took an hour with Insteon on the phone to get things up and running. The connections kept failing. I have an Insteon starter kit with hub, motion sensor, leak sensor, and 2 outlet switches. I got the water sensor working and sending me an email (it's watching for water overflow at my sump pump). Several things seem problematic with the app control.
1. I have setup a scene where the Motion Sensor sees activity and turns on a light through a on/off switch module. While I am in the house, I would like to turn off this scene. But when I go to Scene and press the Off button, the motion sensor still turns the light on. I thought this should be relatively simple but the Off does nothing. My end goal will be to have have a mini-button control setup to where - when I come home into the house, I want one of the mini buttons setup to turn the Scene off. Then when I leave the house, I want a different mini button setup to turn on the Scene when pressed. Is this even possible? I need to get past this Bump before proceeding to the next step - which is - after the Scene is turned on, and the Motion Sensor sees activity, I want the camera to take a picture and email it to me. Is this possible too?
2. I have an iphone with app and an adroid tablet with app. Many times I try to sign on to my insteon system remotely and get a: Connecting to hub - Fail. I can Try Again repeatedly but sometimes it just won't connect. Other times, if the iphone will not connect, I use the android and it will connect - or android won't and iphone will. What a pain. Any ideas as to what can cause this?
Thanks for your help.
1. I have setup a scene where the Motion Sensor sees activity and turns on a light through a on/off switch module. While I am in the house, I would like to turn off this scene. But when I go to Scene and press the Off button, the motion sensor still turns the light on. I thought this should be relatively simple but the Off does nothing. My end goal will be to have have a mini-button control setup to where - when I come home into the house, I want one of the mini buttons setup to turn the Scene off. Then when I leave the house, I want a different mini button setup to turn on the Scene when pressed. Is this even possible? I need to get past this Bump before proceeding to the next step - which is - after the Scene is turned on, and the Motion Sensor sees activity, I want the camera to take a picture and email it to me. Is this possible too?
2. I have an iphone with app and an adroid tablet with app. Many times I try to sign on to my insteon system remotely and get a: Connecting to hub - Fail. I can Try Again repeatedly but sometimes it just won't connect. Other times, if the iphone will not connect, I use the android and it will connect - or android won't and iphone will. What a pain. Any ideas as to what can cause this?
Thanks for your help.
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