I have an Insteon device I need to remove. I found I can delete an entity from Insteon, but not a device. This thread talks about removing an Insteon device and two methods are discussed. The first is using the service to delete all Insteon links. The second involves pressing setting buttons on the device and on a device that seems to be something other than a PLM. If someone can confirm this works on a PLM, I’ll try it, but I don’t want to start messing around unless I know what I’m doing.
Currently I have HA on an Pi4 with an Insteon 2448A7 USB stick. Since the range on that seems rather limited, I have plugged in a PLM, Insteon 2413S, in a nearby power outlet. After I plugged that in, I found Insteon devices that wouldn’t connect with HA were connecting, so I’m using both the USB stick and the PLM.
There seems to be no direct way to communicate with the PLM (unlike with an Insteon Hub).
I don’t want to use the service to delete all links, since I don’t want to have to reconnect other devices. While, at this point, I have only one other device set up on Insteon, it’s a Micro-Dimmer and it’s in a wall box. For now, that’s doable, but I want to know what to do in the future, as well, when I have over a dozen Micro-Dimmers installed. (So I’m thinking about doing this not just now, but in case I have to do it in the future, with many more devices connected.)
I see this as a 2 step issue:
Remove the device from the PLM
Remove it from HA
I’m hoping if I remove it from the PLM, it’ll cease to show up on HA, but I’m not clear about that.
there is a service under developer tools
Insteon: Delete all link
Tells the Insteon Modem (IM) to remove an All-Link record from the All-Link Database of the IM and a device. Once the IM is set to delete the link, press the link button on the corresponding device to complete the process.
I have tried this process a few times and it does NOT work for me:(
Does anyone have any insight on how this is actually supposed to work? It looks like you have to remove the individual device links, and not the insteon device itself.
I wouldn’t say they’re useless - unless they phone home. The ones I got were apparently earlier ones and don’t phone home and work fine with just Z-Wave. I have a number of devices I’m still installing one at a time, since they’re likely going to work for years. I do know that a group has taken over the website and is still selling products - and I got the impression they may not be as committed to vendor-lock-in as the original Insteon was.
The devices I am referring to are switches. 2635-222. and 2634-222 and are pure insteon. The 2634-222 has never worked. I had two 2635-222 One still worked the other doesn’t any more… The 2734-222 is not completely useless as it is heavy enough to function as a paper weight . Never have seen a combo Z-wave/Insteon device
I haven’t seen combo Insteon/Z-Wave at all, but I haven’t had a problem with the devices working at all. They’ve actually been quite reliable. I do use some, through HA, to respond to Z-Wave switches.