eKeypad Pro - Lighting

drvnbysound

Senior Member
After having Android phones for a little over 2 years, my wife and I recently got iPhones. Knowing that I also want to setup CCTV cameras I went ahead and bought eKeypad Pro. I went through the configuration steps, entered all of my information and everything seems to be working as expected, with the exception of Lights. When I go to the Lights section, nothing is listed. I have tried to 'pull down' the page and refresh the list, but nothing is showing up. I wanted to see if anyone had any suggestions.

I haven't yet tried to delete the current configuration and re-configure yet, but that may be the next step...

Edit: Nevermind... after a bit of tinkering with the app I attempted to re-sync (not sure if this was actually necessary), but after a few minutes all of my lights are now listed.
 
Actually, I would be curious on continuing this thread and learning the differences between the new iPhone and Android ones for home automation/security applications (especially from someone knowledgeable like yourself ;))!

Keep us informed!
 
Unfortunately, I've only had my M1 setup for a couple of months now and I never purchased any of the Android applications. I did a trial with myKeypad (free version only allows limited number lighting uses). To compare that with eKeypad Pro ($99) may not necessarily be a good comparison. I do still have my Android phone, albeit a 2-year old Droid2... I'd be willing to try and make any comparisons that are asked. It no longer has cellular service, but I could test the app on my local network w/o any issues. One thing I will mention is that the buttons (graphically) to disconnect from the panel and to delete the panel completely from myKeypad aren't too different, just on different screens (but in VERY similar locations). I connected at work to show a friend, realized my wife was home from work (just randomly moving about the living room) and I started to get a number of motion alerts. Thus, I wanted to disconnect... I accidentally deleted the panel from myKeypad completely. I had to re-enter all of the configuration settings to get it back into myKeypad... doing so the second time didn't place the panel name on the screen - the bar is there to connect (and works fine), but no name is listed. I haven't had a good enough reason to delete it and re-configure again...

All of that said, [with eKeypad]... any ideas on updating the lighting devices in the case that additional devices are added? Will they be added to the list automatically, be refreshed via pull-down, or does a re-sync need to be performed?
 
I emailed the author of ekeypad as the newest version removed the sync button for items like lighting and instead you need to pull down the frame to refresh. For lists like lighting where I only have a few items I can't activate the pull down as the entire capabilities master section scrolls instead.
 
Hmm... I literally bought the app 2 days ago, so I'm pretty new to the app. I don't know of any updates since then. I mentioned the sync button above, which I found under the following menu: Config > Automation Systems > (Select your panel here)... and 'Re-sync Device changes' is in the center of the page.

I've also noticed that the last update (which I assume I have, since no updates are being shown) did note that the pull-down refresh option was added. However, since I am new to the app, I have no idea what the differences are between "refreshing" via pull-down vs. performing a re-sync of device settings. I believe there is an document on the developers website, which I need to read through, but I just haven't had the time in the past couple of days.
 
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