Basic ISY Integration Question

I’m taking HA for a trial run and am a long time ISY user. I’m impressed with HA’s ISY integration, the discovery process worked like a charm, and controlling devices on the ISY from HA seems pretty flawless.

I may be missing something here, but HA doesn’t seem to be aware of device changes on the ISY? If an ISY device changes state, independently from HA, HA doesn’t know about it? If so this is a huge limitation of how I’d like to use HA. I’d like to leave Insteon scheduling and programming up to the ISY but have HA react to the ISY and handle devices that ISY doesn’t support.

Perhaps, I’m guessing, that is what the “Creating Custom Devices” section of the documentation is for? If so, this would require much custom re-programming of a busy ISY.

If this is true it surprises me because I’ve been using ISY with python scripts (using this) for quite awhile. This library supports callbacks that can easily monitor the state of ISY devices.

I’d love to hear how other ISY users have integrated HA into their home automation environment!
Bob

In case it matters, this is ISY version 4.x and I’m using Hass.io on a Rpi3

The state of the device is reflected in HA if it is changed by the ISY or the local device itself, at least for me. I using the HA docker container and ISY version 4.6.2.

Well I upgraded my Home.io to a bigger/faster SD card and restarted, the ISY now updates devices on HA. This is great and opens a new world of automation possibilities!

Now if only there was an easy way to integrate Google Home into the mix!

I am also a ISY user, currently I upgrade to ISY994i pro. How do you configure to work with HA (Hassbian) and run python scripts? Any help or examples of your codes will be appreciated…

Hi I’m running home assistant on a pi 3 and the response seems to be rather slow as to the status of my is y + home assistant home assistant seems to not react quickly any suggestions on how I could possibly improve on the response and is there a setting as far as how many or how quickly it poles

many thanks in advance regards Robert

Hi xtalker!

What hardware were you on? What was the old card speed vs the new card speed?

I’m running on a Pi 2 with a Sandisk Extreme Pro advertised at 95 mb read / 90 mb write, but I think it’s technically a U10 card which means the minimum is 10 and 95/90 are the maximums so wondering if I am in a similar situation to you