I’m new to Home Assistant and have managed to import my Insteon devices from my Hub 2 into HA and create some basic automation tasks. However, my hub has some legacy scenes and schedules I’d like to get rid of. Now that I have all the devices in HA, can i reset the hub? Is there any downside to doing that? Thanks
I was able to reset my hub without issue but you will have to relink everything to the hub.
Thanks, how do you do that?
After resetting the hub, click on the Insteon option in the side panel and then click the yellow “+” chose the option to link multiple devices and then you will have to going to each device and follow it’s routine to link it.
I was in the same situation as you. I factory reset my Hub2 because my sunset timers were drifting and some of the sunrise actions weren’t happening reliably after the Smarthome cloud servers vanished. Before resetting, I noted the Hub2 MAC address (on bottom) and assigned it an IP address in my router, so instead of the hub being assigned a random IP address from my router’s DHCP pool, I would “know” what the IP address of the hub would be. I factory reset the router, then powered it down for 10 mins, then powered up, and everything in HA was all intact. The only difference was that all the old timers inside the hub were wiped out which was my goal. I did not have to do anything special after resetting my hub.
Assuming the hub requests an IP address from the router, and the router gives it an address, it should be fine. If the hub can not get an IP address for any reason, I could see how it would appear bricked because it can’t join your network without an IP address. Mine pulled the address I assigned in my router as I expected. (I suppose it’s possible if your hub was somehow hard coded to a certain IP address, and that address was not valid to your router, then the hub would also appear unresponsive. It’s been forever since I first installed my hub but apparently whatever firmware is in mine requests an IP address upon boot-up.)
All the previously established links “between” Insteon devices that I had long-ago established using the app (through the hub) were still intact, as I expected. The hub originally made setting up all those connections easier, but once established, those connections were independent of the hub. Since the hub is now “dumb” and is basically just a bridge between HA and all the Insteon devices, any future links (adding or removing) between devices will have to be done manually just like you would have done them before the hub was introduced.