Insteon is back?

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At least for the time being, Insteon hub and apps from Insteon are working again. No more red light on the hub, it is green. When I logged into the hub with the app, the first time I tried it there was some sort of issue, but the second time, it went right in. The Insteon Hub for Windows app on the PC doesn’t seem to be able to connect for me.

Although I THOUGHT I deleted all the information for schedules in the Insteon Panel All-Link Database, the hub still showed all the scenes and schedules in the Insteon app. I deleted them while I still can so that there is no possible conflict between the Insteon schedules and the Home Assistant ones.

A friend says the old Insteon app also works for Insteon cameras again.

On the downside, HA now shows NO devices. Now all I see are entities. For Insteon and all the other integrations I have. Maybe this was a change in the HA that I didn’t notice before. I restarted HA, but that didn’t make a difference. The UI still works with all the Insteon hub devices/entities.

… time passes …

I downloaded the HA to docker container from “latest” and after launching it, now HA UI shows all the devices as well as entities. That was odd that they disappeared and are now back, but I’m glad :slight_smile:

… time passes …

Well, the devices disappeared again on the integerations. I refreshed the screen and then they all showed up again. Odd.

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Another downside is that you have no clue who is on the other side :wink:

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Yes, I meant to add that fact on there. I agree. And it worries me. I’m thinking that the insteon.com site is still running and so the domain must still be registered and the service is still the same one. Knock on wood.

I wonder how we could permanently block access to the hub from outside the lan?

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In your router I guess.

However I highly doubt anyone managed to recreate the communication protocol they used to the hubs in this short time and use the same URL (assuming it’s hard coded in the hubs).

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Yes, but what do we put in the router? I don’t know what IP might be communicating with it, for instance.

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I don’t have a lot of experience of this but sometimes you can disable all outside communication from one device.
That should do it.