So, I’ve deployed Ask Alexa (which is freaking awesome) and I want to be able to issue one command and all my lights turn off as well as arm the security system, lock the doors, etc. Normally this would be easy except that I use INSTEON for all my light switches. (Why? I love Insteon’s switches, …

Can the ISY see the status of a zwave switch?

Yes it can. Unfortunately I don’t have any z wave switches. I have contact sensors, motion sensors, signal repeaters, and door locks in zwave.

Pardon my igorance on ISY, it’s been years since that gadget piqued my curiosity. Is it capable of reacting or doing actions based on the status of a switch? The reason I’m asking, if it can act based on the status of a switch, maybe you can have it monitor a set of virtual switches that only gets …

Yes it can do exactly what you say. The only thing I am curious about is, what is a virtual switch? How do I create one of those?

Check the link below, hopefully, this gets you started on what you’re trying to do. [image] FAQ: Creating a virtual Groovy Device [OBSOLETE] Wiki Need a FAQ for the simplest version of this: a virtual on/off switch. Maybe even two FAQs, one for why you would want one with…

Fantastic thank you I will give it a shot

Can virtual switches be seen/communicated with by other physical z-wave devices in the network? I have a virtual switch now in smartthings hub, but that switch doesn’t seem discoverable by the ISY…

It can be seen by apps, possibly no on other physical devices.

So it can only be seen by apps on the smartthings hub itself? Not by anything else on the zwave network?

Ah, I see where this is not gonna work like I how I imagined it, the ISY cannot see the virtual device. Grrr

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Check the link below, hopefully, this gets you started on what you’re trying to do.

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