kbrowno1, I am very impressed and interested in your code. I have been using HA since the big Insteon crash. I saw the snarky comment they posted about “not how we do this here”. My biggest problem (and it’s been this way from the day I started HA), quite often (at least once a day) some or all of my Insteon devices stop responding and updating HA. I have my Hub2 plugged into a smart plug so when the problem happens I just have an script to power cycle the hub with 10 second delay. I have endeavored to automate the process but have yet to have success. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated and I would love to utilize your code if you would be so inclined.
Thanks! First let me say that I built all the things I built to just start to understand how everything worked and what could be done to extract and use the information. Most everything I have done (in the Insteon Group Explorer, etc.) was very much followed and most if not all the concepts adopted by (my personal hero) @teharris1.
He deserves all the credit. He liked and listed to what I wrote and adopted them into his wonderful and still moving integration. And as my code created many, many now unnecessary things like automatically creating groups from Insteon scenes, I have retired all that code from my system. Simply put, my code was like a alpha trial showing what I thought users would like. There is nothing now in any of that code you cannot do with @teharris1 code for Insteon (and you can do much more with his).
Now, that code is still here:
Feel free to poke through it and if you have questions I can dust the cobwebs from my brain and attempt to answer without any hesitation.
Now as for the “once a day” thing, I have not had that issue that frequently but have had a few occurrences. These normally revolve around an update to Starlink, and internet restart and not having a reserved IP address … or something on the Insteon side in which I do have to kick the modem. It did happen last week once and probably at least four months prior but certainly not daily.
I believe it has much to do with how many devices. As I have a lot, most if not all control messages get out on the wireline and are received. I also trashed all my 6 button garbage controllers and basically only use the ON/OFF of the main light as all those button scenes people tended to build by device-to-device connections.
And of course there are always people that think other things are better and many will respond to this I am sure … I have friends with houses littered with ZWave or Zigbee or Crestron and ALL of them LOVE their systems … and most of them say to me, I push a switch in your house and HA shows it is on, or I push in on in my house at the switch and I have to do it two of three times for the light to actually come on or HA show it on.
I get it. But my lights/switches are 100% functional at the switch and occasionally broken (like 0.1% of the time in HA in which a toggle on/off normally fixes it).
Thank you so much for the quick and kind words, I am certainly going to check out teharris1.'s code. Maybe it will aid me in isolating my problem. The only thing I haven’t done is factory reset my hub & devices and start from scratch. I have 55 Insteon devices and have been to lazy or chicken Sh*t to attempt that one yet.
I never did. Although I have a few extra Hubs now from the downtime (when people gave them away!). Which makes we totally happy. I am just finishing this which is for my gate and several water pumps at my home which is 3/4 mile away from the house.
DSL Modem
PoE Hub
HA on a PI (not in the picture yet)
Insteon
Reolink Cameras
God love the people that gave away exceptional hardware!
Only other addition will be a broadlink RF/IR and a window so From my home I can see cameras, watch listen and speak, buzz into the gate and also get status on the remote water pumps running at that location. The board alone for the gate which failed is $1600 - $2000 without cameras. This with cameras was $500 including the waterproof box. Yes it is $60/month for the service but I can take that out and put in cellualr 4g/5g once they come to my totally rural area. And I get Insteon and HA down there and all the things I can do to those circuits (lights, etc) not to mention sending the same messages gate Home Assistant to my house Home Assistant.
I read through the posts here and haven’t found an answer to my question. The HA Insteon integration page says that this integration supports the 2413S PLM Serial Modem.
I currently have an UD ISY994i and just tonight I replaced my failing 2413S PLM with a new one that I purchased once Insteon began selling them again. The transition to the new PLM worked great with the UD Admin Console.
But now I want to ditch the no-longer-supported ISY994i. I have 58 Insteon devices. What is the easiest way to move to this integration? Maybe a more important question…how do you connect a 2413S serial PLM to HA? That seems like the best option, as it already has knowledge of the links, devices and scenes. My HA runs on a RasberryPi4.
I also have a factory reset Insteon 2245-222 Hub, if that would be the easier route. Please don’t tell me I would have to factory-reset every one of my devices…did that when I moved to the ISY when Insteon originally closed up shop! Thanks!
I was in a similar situation to you and also came from an ISY994i. I bought the USB PLM and ended up running both systems at the same time to try out the Insteon integration. I believe there is a USB to serial adaptor that you can use.
One thing to be aware is that the integration doesn’t yet support device to device scene programming, however the developer is working on adding it. Some people add/edit the ALDB or others do manual linking as a work around for now.
I ended up factory resetting all of my Insteon stuff. Maybe someone else has a better idea to try.
