Setting a group to On

[IanIreland]

I have a variety of devices that I want to turn on as a group, Christmas lights! I was hoping to create a group and send a command to turn them all on at once. Some have 100 as ON others have 255 as ON.
Is there a command to send 'ON' rather than a number?

[andyf]

Having recently got rid of all Insteon this doesn't affect me, but it's a very good feature to request.

[logman]

I have asked for Spud in the past to offer a "Control By Label" option, but I don't think he ever got around to implementing anything.

However you can do this by using the JSON API and the "controldevicebylabel" request. Example:

/JSON?request=controldevicebylabel&ref=XXXX&label=ON

You can use as many devices reference numbers as desired as long as they are separated by commas.


--Barry

[IanIreland]

I have asked for Spud in the past to offer a "Control By Label" option, but I don't think he ever got around to implementing anything.

However you can do this by using the JSON API and the "controldevicebylabel" request. Example:

/JSON?request=controldevicebylabel&ref=XXXX&label=ON

You can use as many devices reference numbers as desired as long as they are separated by commas.


--Barry

Thanks for the reply.
I guess that is a possibility, but feels potentially hard work as I swap devices around year to year.

[Wade]

I created 2 separate groups--one with devices that use 100 as on, a second for 255--and have 2 corresponding event actions. Seemed the easiest workaround for my purposes.

[IanIreland]

I created 2 separate groups--one with devices that use 100 as on, a second for 255--and have 2 corresponding event actions. Seemed the easiest workaround for my purposes.

That's what I've done. I just wondered if there was a simpler way :-)

[randy]

I created 2 separate groups--one with devices that use 100 as on, a second for 255--and have 2 corresponding event actions. Seemed the easiest workaround for my purposes.

This is how I handled it.