I have (had) many six button controllers. Hated them. We moved one in the house for ceiling fan control and despite wiping it out as best we could (complete reset), I would push button “B” which was set as Fanlinc Speed Medium, it would turn on a kitchen light. Could never wipe it clean. WIth the new insteon HA code, those parts and marked inactive in the ALDB. You cannot delete them as this is how Insteon worked I believe. It kept each and every installation/change you made but marked things active or inactive. And the behavior to change some things was better on Android than Apple for somethings and better on Apple than Android for others. I gave up on those switches. Still have then installed and some are used but not many if at all.
You might have some phantom button linked to some schedule that executes and that button is linked to the other one.
AHA. SUCCESS!
It wasn’t Emulated Hue malfunctioning but rather some arbitrary sunrise routine that got setup within Alexa itself. Alexa / phone owner has no idea how it got setup / scheduled. :-/
Edwin_D correct it was just coincidence and not related to HA sun device. Alexa appears to be using own Sunrise timer.
I had identified both HA dashboard + Simple scheduler controls last night but not Alexa voice / emulate hue call.
Emulated Hue / Alexa voice / routine control is logged as service homeassistant.turn_on
Moment saw that I knew and talked owner through phone to find and delete Alexa routine.
Cool. I’m not familiar with Nabu Casa.
I’ve been meaning to ask some HA experts What type of PLM / device brand they would choose today and why. Heard some peeps talk about Lutron brand?
I’m not experienced or in the know if the many many “smart home” solutions. Primarily outsourced business IT. Supporting Vmware, Microsoft servers, networks, etc but not home automation. This is a one off.
Since many of the smart home solutions seem to hook you into their ecosystem I’ve been curious what peeps decide to go for. I just know I’d likely skip on Insteon for myself. But perhaps its improved now that it got bought up.
Edit:
What I’d really like to see is HA as far as Insteon is the ability to have multiple hubs connected. This Insteon environment is 3 buildings in close proximity. ~40-50ft. There have been issues with range of hub from center building in past. Have multiple repeaters. A networked PLM / hub in each building would be ideal. More of a distributed type design.
Well … are they powered through the same wires (meaning power) or isolated with meters of their own?
Insteon’s superior (IMHO) design is that it is both Powerline and RF. Hub (or PLM) is Powerline that sends out commands at the 0 line when sine wave passes through 0 AND it also can sing out RF.
Signals are grabbed and passed device to device to the proper thing to occur.
I personally would never put in anything else. Superior quality in switch construction (they feel and look good) and solid communication that is both Powerline and possibly RF for dual switches. People use to worry about dual-phase (220 into two 110 and which one are you on) but that is why you have Powerline and RF to jump the gap. I have like 10 switches easily with 15ft of the Hub, who knows what phase/doesn’t matter. I can hit a button in my house and turn on lights at my guest house 1000 ft away instantaneously.
And the more switches the merrier you are. No different that mesh technologies really. I have about 80 devices total and planning another 20 to rid myself of crappy alarm technologies.
Its a combined residence / business property.
Yes the center building House with Insteon hub is separate PG&E house meter than than the two side buildings business meter So the other two buildings each ~40ft away get signal from Insteon repeater.
My main complaint with Insteon has been the RF distance. Seems they should make a CAT5 type repeater that could talk with hub over network. That repeater getting signal over network to then powerline signal insteon device within that building. Again - I don’t really know much about smart homing but this would seem to allow for a nice distributed setup.
I have no idea how / what your doing for 1000ft away device? Is it signaling locally on your property or using some cloud / Inet function to trigger your guest house device?
All same wiring. Guest house is nothing more than a panel at main house feeding 200amp to the lower guest house. To do what you want you would need HA+local hub in each place. And you can have one HA speak to others … yes the RF is not going to reach that far (but a powerline could just pulled to a non-descript area on each property with some RF switch at the end) … never tried that as have not a need to.
Or better said, that is exactly what I do in reality as it is Powerline from main house to guest and then dual switches instaled in guest house to control kit from here.
I see. Ya know that probably is the solution. Their house + business + well meters and panels are outside of center building with hub. I can likely arrange for an electrician install an outlet from the main business panel into the house. Plug in repeater there. Then hub to repeater RF would be 5-10ft and bridge Insteon across circuits. Would just need to find how the two building circuits are segmented. Believe they are isolated so outlet would need plug for each buildings backbone + 2 repeaters. Each business building has own sub panels…I dunno. Need some electrician advise / investigation.
Thanks for discussion. Cheers!