Insteon Authentication Error after PowerFailure

Hardware
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Hello,

After a power-failure this evening I’m suddenly getting an Insteon Authentication Error only in HomeAssistant. I am able to use the Insteon App wtihout any problem, but all the automations that involve Insteon are broken. To state the obvious I’ve tried restarting multiple times.

Insteon Hub version 1019

Log files show:

2021-08-16 21:06:15 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.insteon] Could not connect to Insteon modem
2021-08-16 21:06:18 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.konnected.panel] Exception trying to get panel status: Cannot connect to host 192.168.86.43:9123 ssl:default [Connect call failed ('192.168.86.43', 9123)]
2021-08-16 21:06:18 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.konnected.panel] Exception trying to get panel status: Cannot connect to host 192.168.86.48:9123 ssl:default [Connect call failed ('192.168.86.48', 9123)]
2021-08-16 21:06:25 ERROR (MainThread) [pyinsteon.protocol.http_reader_writer] Athentication error, check your configuration
2021-08-16 21:06:25 ERROR (MainThread) [pyinsteon.protocol.http_reader_writer] If configuration is correct and restart the Hub
2021-08-16 21:06:25 ERROR (MainThread) [pyinsteon.protocol.http_reader_writer] System must be restared to reconnect to hub
2021-08-16 21:06:25 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.insteon] Could not connect to Insteon modem

Any tips?

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No real tip, but just a comment. I encountered an anomaly with my Insteon connection from HA after updating to 2021.8.7. Rebooting HA and the Insteon hub didn’t seem to help. It did start working after I “changed” the Insteon integration configuration. (HA - Integration, Insteon, Configure, Change the hub configuration). While I didn’t actually change any of the values, I did click submit and then restarted the hub one more time. That did the trick. I can’t establish a causal relationship to any of the actions, but it started working and that was good enough.

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I’m tagging this up to another reason why I hate Insteon.

I fired up Postman to recreate the API call and discovered my password wasn’t what I thought it was. I fail to see how this ran for a year prior, or why a power-failure caused it to start failing. I reset the password using Insteon for Hub, then reran the configuration, and it works.

So fixed, thanks…