I have ans on/off insteon switch . Has worked fine for years . I just moved it to a different room. For a different ceiling light. Every half hour or so it keeps turning on by itself. Anyone ever have this problem ?
Hello,
I have an insteon on/off switch that has been working for years. and soon as insteon went down and i got home assistant it continued on working just fine. I moved that outlet to a different room/circuit in the house, (well within range of HUB), and now it just shows that the light is on all the time in home assistant. Works fine if i hit the switch manually. But I tried deletingi the card and adding the entity back and same results.
I reset it manually at the switch, and it still shows up on the HA insteon tab, just wondering if you had any ideas
I read from someone that adding it back in the app(assuming its still back up with new owners) can fix poblem. But when i tried this the app says my HUB is off line, and under info it shows the wrong xx:xx:xx So Im out of ideas
Also, I have 4 dimmers that work fine. Itās just he switch I moved to another room
Do you pay for Nabu Casa for Alexa insteon integration? Or is it no longer necessary now that my insteon HUB is green again?
I use Nabu Casa. This is because I can control everything (not just Insteon) through it. Also Insteon service is a paid for subscription. I have no reason to buy it because I use Nabu Casa subscription.
So regarding Nabu Casa. I just switched over and paid for the year. My account is active. Is there anything I need to do to get Alexa to work with my insteon lights now? Long story short - I had my own coding in AWS, working perfectly so I didnāt need to bother with subscription. Account got hacked and I temporarily lost 7000 dollars from my bank. After a month dealing with amazon(the worst customer service in history) i got money back and my account it PERMANANTLY closed. But soon as I closed account, HA works fine, but alexa say s"Ok" as if its working but it wont turn insteon stuff on or off. Anything I need to do that you can think of? Sorry for the run on question.
Even the routines I have set up with script. If I click the button in home assistant it works fine. If I click the same button in Alexa app(or ask alexa verbally) says ok but NADA.
Do you have the Insteon Alexa app installed? If yes you need to remove it. Sounds to me like it is going through that or someother path. All I did was remove Alexa Insteon integration, then add Alexa Home Assistant/Nabu integration and then you can see everything in the HA GUI under:
Cloud ā Alexa ā Manage Entities
Does anyone know if, or have ApplianceLinc 2456S3 running in the HA Insteon integration?
Thank you
It would be fantastic if the dashboard @kbrown01 did became part of the official integration. Iām going to play around with the groups tonight so I can fix my theater control.
Good news. I just posted an update to the Insteon Panel that will now allow for the creation and editing of Insteon scenes. It does not have everything that @kbrown01 did but it at least makes it a lot easier to manage your Insteon scenes without doing the nitty-gritty work in the All-Link Database.
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Question for this thread: Iām just now bringing my legacy Insteon devices (a few switches and KPLs) into my HA setup. The Insteons are configured the way I want them to be, for the most part - no scenes, primarily just responders/controllers so that if I press a certain KPL button, multiple Insteon switches will turn on/off. It all works just fineā¦
In integration Insteon into HA, Iām trying to figure out whether it makes more sense to leave the responder/controller settings the way I have them, or whether I should blow them all out and just use HA automations to drive the actions (so if you press button H on a given KPL, itās an HA automation that then turns the switches on).
Is there a best practice here? It feels like using responders/controllers is the ārightā way for the switches to talk to one another, but it also feels like I should be consistent for my overall smart home, and have all actions being driven from one source - ie, HA.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts!
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I still have an ISY994 running my insteon because I havenāt had time to move everything over yet, but Iām hoping to be able to in a few months. So Iām a little behind you, but have thought about how to do it already.
The main reason I would NOT use home assistant automations is because you donāt need to!
If you leave your insteon the way it is it will work regardless of what happens with home assistant, but if you wipe everything and something happens to home assistant then hitting that H button will only turn the light on for the H button. I would say let home assistant be a supplemental thingā¦not the basket where you place all of your eggs. Just my opinion.
I would do a test using one set of KPL+lights to see whether the responsiveness of a HA automation compares favorably to the perfectly synchronized experience of native Insteon links. If it has a popcorn effect then you just made your decision easier.
Insteon.scene_on ā¦ nothing more than that. No popcorn. Just the same as you pushing that button
Thank you so much ! could you plz provide link to this product
That is good news. Iāve been using an ISY994i to manage Insteon devices and though itās still rock solid itās now EOL. UDIās new controllers are not appealing to me, so I am thinking of migrating my Insteon stuff completely to HA. You just made my decision easier. 
If you leave the direct links in the insteon gear itselfā¦yes.
If you wipe everything and have individual entities in home assistant for your insteon gear then lots of variables come into play and as I said before if anything happens to the system running home assistant then nothing works.
Think of leaving the insteon links as an insurance policy that cost nothing.
But with latest HA insteon updates you can create insteon scenes. If you wipe everything of course. But now you can make/edit scenes
Iām really struggling with this Insteon integration. Iām a long time Insteon user and have been using the ISY integration. I just purchased a USB PLM and am hoping to have that as my main integration. I have a test setup with a dimmer and keypad linked and they are showing up in HA. I can use HA to control them, but if I manually turn them on, the status isnāt relayed to HA. I also canāt find a way to easily delete them from the Insteon integration before doing a factory reset. Please help.
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Make sure that the dimmer and keypad are linked to the PLM.
Has anyone tried a serial to network device to connect the PLM to a HASS VM, like this?