Follow the install instructions on GitHub - custom-cards/button-card: ❇️ Lovelace button-card for home assistant
Jez… I need to start drinking to do this. This is my first jump into HA, but HA has got to be one of the most confusing systems with which I’ve ever dealt. Get this from here, add with that from there. I guess that’s a product of cobbling together code from many sources. I’d like my garage door to work without learning another language, but I’ll start digesting the directions. Maybe Universal Devices will purchase the Insteon rights before I finish and restart the Insteon Servers. At the rate of my progress with HA, that could really happen.
I do appreciate and am very thankful for the help.
Not sure what you are confused about. The only thing I found a little confusing was the figuring which version I should use, but once I saw a docker install for my synology nas, things have been pretty smooth. 40 insteon devices all working with my hub without any external server required. PLUS it found computers, rokus, denon receiver, tvs, and phones. None of that happened with insteon alone. I just have a minor problem with the garage door opener. Don’t give up.
All my Insteon items (except the IO Linc) are working well through the Insteon Hub using the Hub Schedules. And that’s OK with me; all HA is doing for me now is turning on/off Insteon switches from my phone as needed. Loading HA on the RasPi, adding Insteon, making the Dashboard, adding the cards took 2-3 reformats of the Memory card to wipe out any errors I may have inadvertently left while making HA something I liked. I thought the entire process was very tedious. HA doesn’t seem to be an out-of-the-box, plug-and-play product. That’s OK, too. I’m sure HA will be less frustrating when I dig into it a little more. All that’s left is the Garage Door Sensors, and that’s just going to take some time and trial-and-error to get it where I like it. Hopefully, in the process of getting the Garage Doors working, I’ll learn my way around HA enough to really do some helpful automation.
Ah, I could see where having to reformat memory cards on a pi could be annoying. I run HA on my Synology NAS and it was a fairly nice experience and I’m really glad to get additional mileage out of my NAS. I DID have to figure out a little about Docker which I have never used before. Maybe I am just more tolerant of any difficulties/complexities since I have been doing programming since 1966.
Plus, nowadays, there is SO much more help in the form of documentation, videos online, and user forums plus vendor support that it seems easy compared to the past.
I can also see that HA has come a long way in putting together a UI instead of configuring everything in the yaml. Now THAT would have been annoying except for the programmers and tinkerers. I much prefer the UI way of doing things.
Not exactly. Add-on’s are like separate programs, like a file editor. Some addons supply an integration for home assistant to interact with it.
Integrations tell home assistant how to communicate with other devices or programs(addons). Integrations that are officially supported come packaged with home assistant. The home assistant community store or HACS also has integrations that can be added as well.
Integrations are in HACS for various reasons. They’re new, often officially supported intgrations start off in HACS and are merge later on. The ability to push an update in HACS is almost instant, where the official needs to update the entire core and get approval from various people.
That approval is also why something may be in hacs, less popular items can often spend an eternity waiting for approval. This is a volunteer program so oversight resources are limited.
Eric,
FWIW, I went into the Insteon panel “All-Link database” and deleted all the things that weren’t direct connections between the device and the hub or the between 2 devices. That got rid of the HUB scenes/schedules. Then I easily created even better scenes/schedules managed by HA using automations and scenes and groups. I now have much easier to understand and manage insteon devices than I had with the insteon app.
I think the plan is to improve this “All-Link database” interface with time. I’m just glad it was available when I needed it when Insteon disappeared.
… time passes …
Oh, on re-reading the thread, I see all the things that you “cobbled” together to get what you want. The I/O Linc doesn’t currently work correctly (my opinion) and so that is why different cobbles were being recommended to get around the problems. Me, I’m probably just waiting till it gets fixed. I can open or close the door if I want. And I have a camera set up in the garage, so I can just look to see if I’m unsure of its state.
The good news is that you CAN cobble things together if necessary. With the old app Insteon provided, if you didn’t like it, too bad.
Good luck to you.