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jonkjon
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I've been looking at the INSTEON Smoke Bridge and was
wondering if they will work with Power-Home.
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jonkjon,
Ive got the Smoke Bridge and have had no problems connecting it to PowerHome or managing the links with it. The only problem I have is that the First Alert smoke detectors that I currently have in the house are not compatible so I havent really had a chance to fully implement it. But based upon the developers notes, its just a standard Insteon device which should work fine.
Dave.
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I received Smoke Bridge and First Alert Onelink SCO501CN.
It worked with PowerHome sending commands on group 3 when you press test on First Alert. (with flag and commands - may be it tells different status or test)
I also tested with Insteon's own app (I also have HUB) when pressed test it send's email with test, so it knows test was pressed.
so in short works with PowerHome and runs trigger.
Edited by nick7920 - April 08 2014 at 19:29
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grif091
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Note that actual alarm conditions come through on
different Group numbers.
Group 1 = Smoke
Group 2 = CO
Group 6 = Low Battery
Group 7 = Error
Group 5 = Clear
Tap the Set button on the Smoke Bridge. The Smoke Bridge
will cycle through these conditions which are described in
the Smoke Bridge User Guide
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nick7920
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when I press the test on First Alert
I only get Group 3.
when I Tap the set button on the Smoke Bridge
I get , like Lee mentioned
Group 1
Group 2
Group 6
Group 7
Group 5
- no Group 3 in this case.
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nick7920
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also my trigger is ANY and ANY on smoke bridge which executes a Macro where I check for group and do the messaging.
case (ph_getvar_s(2,4) WHEN '1' THEN 'SMOKE' WHEN '2' THEN 'CO' WHEN '6' THEN 'LOW BATTERY' WHEN '7' THEN 'ERROR' WHEN '3' THEN 'TEST FROM FIRST ALERT' WHEN '5' THEN 'CLEAR')
so far so good
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jonkjon
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Thanks for all the replies. I finally got the sa521cn first alert smoke detector and the smoke bridge. I am having some issues in figuring out how to determine the group from within a macro so I can handle the messaging properly. I am mainly only interested in the smoke detect and the low battery. Thanks again for any help.
UPDATE: I finally got this working. I used insteon device change as the trigger type and set the trigger id number to the appropriate group number. It's easier for me to just use different macros to send the appropriate messages as it's less cluttered. I did have to use ph_disabletrigger to prevent multiple messages being sent but it works just fine.
Edited by jonkjon - May 04 2014 at 08:08
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