Insteon: Controlling Scenes

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For Insteon users, how are you keeping your keypads and devices in sync/using scenes?

I have a large Insteon installation currently controlled through the isy994 component. The only missing part is scenes. HA can control the individual devices but this often leaves the scene out of sync as the keypadlincs no longer reflect the state of the light. This is especially apparent when using Google Assistant. I could create sync automations that reflect the device state into the keypadlincs but all of this can be handled by scenes.

I’m working through getting the insteon_plm component up and running to see if that gives me access to scenes but it’s not for the feint of heart (manually creating devices and link tables based on device IDs is arcane). This would also remove the need to have the ISY994i in case of hardware failure or obsolecense.

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I don’t have a lot of scene’s but I just replicated them in HA using the scene component.

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Thanks for the quick response. Unfortunately you can’t turn off a scene so no luck for me there.

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What you do is create an “off” scene

Example I have three scenes:

  • Home
    I use this when it detects I’ve arrived home and I have a button that activates this scene on my 6 button controller, it turns of 4 lights and sets one to 60%
  • Home Off
    It sets the 5 lights off. You could also set it to turn off every light and you can make scenes call scripts so really the possibility are endless.
  • Movie
    Sets my living room lights to 50%
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Ahh, that makes more sense. Thanks!