I finally got Home Assistant installed and got my Insteon hub and associated switches recognized. Now I have a question as I prepare to read all of this documentation on how to create a HA automated home. The Insteon was chugging along sending out the on/off schedules for my existing devices. Now that I have HA, will it override all of those schedules? Or will they continue to run? Does HA know anything about those schedules? If I add new schedules, will they conflict with the old schedules? How would I turn off those old schedules, if need be?
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Same question. I just got my HA/Insteon configuration up and running on a Synology NAS unit and am wondering about existing schedules on my Insteon hub. I am able to control all Insteon devices using HA but am wondering if my new schedules will conflict with those that are on the Insteon hub. If so, how can the Insteon schedules be disabled?
No reason for direct conflict, but you should try to centralize in one location.
Automation at its core is just sending an on/off command to a device. It just uses automation to determine when to do that. Insteon will run, look for trigger, and the perform actions. HA will do the same. I don’t see any reason why integrating with one will prevent the other. Thats the same as if you went into the native app and turned on the light, vs using HA to turn on the light. The light doesn’t care.
The issue you’ll have is based on how complex your automations are, and where you overlap. For example, if you have an automation that says “Before 6:00pm, if this light turns on, turn it off” then if you have a different automation setup to turn it on, they’ll fight each other.
And I know you can do more than just on/off, but the principles are the same.