New user here and thought I would share my experience after my insteon was bricked like so many others. I ordered an Odroid N2+. Followed the setup procedure which was pretty simple and once I completed that, the device started finding my insteon switches and outlets throughout the house nearly instantly. I believe it found every device. They were only identified by the insteon naming scheme so I simply went through the house and turned switches on and off while watching the dashboard toggles and that allowed me to see which device was which. renaming them was simple. Also created my first automation, having the exterior lights come on 30 minutes prior to sunset. So for anyone anxious about trying Home Assistant, I say don’t be anxious and give it a try. many more automatons and groupings to come.
Do / did you have a hub? I switched to HA on my Win10 HyperV and it works OK. But, I don’t like having my PC on 24/7. The Odroid sound like it may be what I am looking for since Raspberry Pi’s are made from unobtainable.
I’m also a new user, and had help setting up HA on my Windows 11 PC using Virtual Box. I decided I wanted a standalone machine and got the O-Droid. The only issue I had was getting my configuration (i.e. backup) file from my Windows machine to the O-Droid. I was able to set up an FTP client on the O-Droid, backed up the Windows version then downloaded it to my machine, then used FTP to copy the backup from my Windows machine to the O-Droid. One restart later, I had a fully functional, already configured version of my setup on the O-Droid.
The only issues I had with the O-Droid were configuring figuring out which IP address my network assigned the O-Droid, configuring my browser to connect via an HTTP (rather than HTTPS) connection, and then exporting backup from the VirtualBox instance to the O-Droid. Other than that, it was almost literally plug and play.
Now I just have to pray my Insteon hub keeps working, and learn how to erase the existing (and no longer readable/adjustable) Insteon timers and scenes so I can consolidate all timers in one interface. {Jonathan}
Yes I had their newest Hub from a couple years ago. When it stopped working, I thought about resetting it several times but thankfully just left it alone. But HA is apparently using it even though it no longer connects to the (now dead) Insteon server. I’m a total newbie to HA but so far, I’m finding the complications are relatively easy to work through.
Good deal. So far I’m happy with my Odroid as well.
Pulled the trigger on the Odroid N2+. The installation went pretty well for having little to no Linux experience.
I managed to do a Backup restore from my HA Hyper-V install, and everything is working OK so far.
I am hoping to figure out how to delete the old scene info from my 2245 Hub, so that I can let HA have complete control over everything.
Me too! I had a ‘red-lighted’ Hub V2 and the move to HA has been successful. I did get help on getting and configuring the Pi but once that was up on my network, the Hub was found and almost all the devices were found. I have not been able to connect HA to my mini-remote, but some of its buttons were already linked to Insteon devices, so they still work. In addition to lights on at sunset-ish I also have a late night turn almost everything off, as well as a sunrise function to turn off nightlights and the outside lights left on all night.
I did have a glitch when one night the Insteon devices in my sunset scene did not come on. I rebooted the Pi, but also the Hub (I think it was actually the hub that was not responding). I hope it is not pining for a connection to SmartHome 
The only thing I decided not to do was to use the HA Cloud to allow Google Home to connect to Insteon devices.