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patrickm
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Hello,
I am trying to understand what the capabilities of Virtual Insteon Devices.
Can a Virtual Insteon Device be linked to a group of real devices and respond to normal traffic between devices?
I am trying to simplify some triggers for large groups of devices. For example, during the day I would like the exterior lights to be disabled. So what I have done is created triggers for each exterior light device and send a fast off to a Insteon group based on those individual triggers. Doesn't seem very efficent having 10+ individual triggers for the same macro. If I could link the Virtual Insteon Device with those devices it seems I could just have one trigger.
Am I understanding virtual Insteon devices correctly?
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Since no one else has jumped in, virtual addresses cannot be part off a Group. The letter V is not a valid hex character which all Insteon devices require. This is a Powerhome unique construct.
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Letter V? Is this something that is working now? Last I heard, Virtual Insteon Devices were a
part of the upcoming release. I didn't know the details of the implementation were released
yet. Do you know some of the details of the way VIDs are going to work, and what they will be
capable of, and what problems they solve?
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2.1B allows a device address of Vx.xx.xx. Beyond that I have no information on how one would use them in PH2. Those Virtual addresses cannot be used outside of PH2.
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This subject could use an update.
Dave, perhaps a brief overview of capabilities here?
I too, have just tried to use this approach, but am
discovering they don't seem to work like I thought they
would.
I can send Insteon Commands (eg, ph_insteon("VIRT
DVC",17,200) to a virtual device and it accordingly shows
its state in the Device Status window, and can be read
back with a ph_getinsteonlevel("VIRT DVC") command, but
other than that I can't get any inter-device interaction.
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Dave -
I find multiple posts in the Forum asking about Virtual devices and NONE of them are answered. I just ran into these issues again, trying to set a Virtual Dvc that I could link to multiple other devices (via the Devices window Links Tab) The links seem to be created but turning on/off the Virtual Device does nothing to the linked devices.
Can you enlighten us all on the "care and feeding" of Virtual Devices?
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