Script to turn on/off insteon device

[canonian]

I have done a few scripts and turning x10 devices on and off is a cinch, but what command do you use to turn insteon devices on and off?

[Rupp]

Same commands work for both.

[canonian]

Same commands work for both.

Ah ok, but with X10 commands you specify the device id A1, B9 etc. What do you specify for Insteon?

[Bill Brower]

What's the device code for your Insidious light switch?

Check SetDeviceStatus in the HomeSeer Help.

[canonian]

What's the device code for your Insidious light switch?

Check SetDeviceStatus in the HomeSeer Help.

I am not sure how to answer this, Insteon switches are not assigned X10 codes by default. It seems as homeseer discovers them they are assigned a code like "0E.C0.75" but if I used that in a script it does not work.

For example: hs.ExecX10 "0E.C0.75", "on", 0, 0

[canonian]

Got it, the codes have a "\" before them..

[Rupp]

When you added your Insteon switches it should have created devices for each item added with a device code like [1 or something similar. This is the code you use to control the device.

[Bill Brower]

He figured it out while we were both typing.

Good luck!

[canonian]

He figured it out while we were both typing.

Good luck!

Bill & Rupp thank you!

Now where is the function to say if it is between 1 hour before sunset and 1 hour after sunrise turn on a light?

I found the sunrise seunset functions but can not find a function to get the current time and compare to sunset & sunrise plus or minus an hour?

I want to turn on the outside lights when the garage door is opened (dry contact x10) but only turn the lights on when it fits the times above?

[canonian]

Scripts control lights differently then status page?

On my status page and can turn devices on and off no problem. I have a script that runs and when I test it turning on devices that work from the status page it does nothing? I added a one second delay between \2 and \1 thinking that might be an issue but it did not help. Again if I go to the status page and click ON for \2 or \1 the light comes on almost right away, but when the script fires nothing happens?

Sub Main
hs.ExecX10 "\2", "on", 0, 0
hs.WaitSecs 1
hs.ExecX10 "\1", "on", 0, 0
hs.WaitSecs 300
hs.ExecX10 "\2", "off", 0, 0
End Sub

I tried to shutdown homeseer (application not running as a service) and it said running shutdown script and hung there. I had to end task it, when I restarted the homeseer application and ran my script it worked. hmmm?? Homeseer also says the script is taking longer than expected, I thought wiatsecs was supposed to avoid this?