Insteon trigger on fast on (double tap)

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Insteon devices have the ability to send fast on (double tap). If one has an ISY994i with Insteon devices and is using the Universal Devices integration, these commands available to use in HA.

I have been contemplating using the Insteon integration and ditching the ISY994i with the assumption that I will get better response times.

But I cannot figure out how to trigger an automation with the Insteon fast on. Is this possible?

In the process of testing the Insteon integration, I have not seen much improvement with response times. Do other people have this experience, too?

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I could not figure this out. I only had one automation / switch that used double tap and learned to live without it. The Insteon Integration is good, I like it, but the ISY still has more Insteon capability

Your options are:

    • Stay with ISY and don’t use HA
    • Use the HA ISY integration (Might be your best bet if keeping your ISY)
    • Move the working PLM/Insteon network from ISY (eisy) to HA and Insteon Integration (Me)

I knew I was going to lose some things when I chose door #3. Several times I got the eisy back out, fired it up and made changes and then moved the PLM back to HA… actually served me pretty well. My traditional migration method is to set up the system and redefine and move switches room or function at a time, but I have ~40 swtiches and a lot of scenes and that would have been extremely painful.

I was able to bring things over like fade up scenes for my lamps, which I don’t think can be defined here. I tried using eisy to push a double tap scene config to the switch in question but could not figure out how to get it to work

There is one volunteer developer for the Insteon integration. From what I can tell this is all he has as developer. He does make changes and appears to be long term committed to Insteon for lighting like I am. I’ve found compromises and giving that time

HA’s web pages say about 500 people are using the HA/ISY integration, it’s probably the best “in betweensy” if you can’t give those Insteon features up. It’s declared an officially supported integration.

The response time is the same pretty much for me, hard to time it. The choke point the serial baud rate from any automation controller to the PLM, and the serial baud rate of Insteon powerline and rf… not much to be done about that. But switch-to-lights is still almost instant, and that’s one of my biggest functions.

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Thank you so much for sharing your experience! I have been using #2 (HA Universal Devices integration) ever since UD abandoned the ISY994i. It works well for me.

I have a motion sensors in my garage, front porch, patio and side yard. Sometimes I want the light to stay on and sometimes stay off. I use single tap on to stay on and double tap off to stay off. Double tap on or single tap off cancels both stay on or off. I have six automations and two helpers for each light to achieve this. I suppose I could condense them to one really complicated one.

But, “If works, don’t fix it!” This is good advice so I’ll stick with #2 and my multitude of automations.

Thanks again!