I haven an INSTEON Hub and a single Insteon dimmer connected to HA.
The dimmer works fine through a Lovelace card, I can dim the light, turn it on/off - no problem.
Now I want to add this dimmer to a HA Scene to enable more automations.
But in the New Scene dialog where I can select Devices to add to the scene, the Insteon dimmer is not listed.
I also haven an Inovelli dimmer, and this is listed under Devices, and can be added to a scene without problem.
Does anybody have an idea why my Insteon dimmer doesnāt show up under Devices to add to a scene?
Currently INSTEON is configured via configuration.yaml and therefore only show as entities. There is a pending PR that migrates INSTEON to config flow (i.e. configure INSTEON using the UI rather than configuration.yaml) They will then show as devices.
In the mean time they still can be added as an entity in a HA Scene.
Thanks, this was helpful for me as well. Iām in a similar boat as Hermann T, except I have over 20 Insteon devices and Iām migrating my settings from Indigo over to Home Assistant.
In case this helps someone: on the version Iām running (0.113.3), no entities were showing when I was trying to create scenes or automations. This was a huge pain since all of my Insteon devices were in Home Assistant as entities. After reading about the Scenes Editor, I discovered entities only show up when advanced mode is enabled for your user profile. After turning this on and restarting Home Assistant, Iām able to add entities to scenes ā including all of my Insteon devices.
Seems like a strange thing to put behind an āadvancedā toggle, but Iām still new to all this and assume thereās probably a good reason.
Iām new to this all, but Iām having an issue with this. Iām trying to do an automation, and I include an Insteon relay switch. But while I can see the Insteon dimmer entity in Configuration, it doesnāt show up in the pull-down for the automation. As is the case with others, I can use the dimmer from Lovelace, but it isnāt even available to add in the automation.
Hey Lloyd, I just went through this yesterday. The trick is to select āCall Serviceā as your action type, then select the action you want the service to perform (e.g. light.turn_on), afterward a menu will appear which allows you to select the entity. Iāve learned that being able to configure automation and scripting through the UI is fairly new in Home Assistant, so weāre fortunate to have these features, but theyāre still in their infancy.
Thatās the crazy part. It doesnāt show up. I get all my other entities under āCall Serviceā except that one (as far as I can tell). But using your logic, I went ahead and added another switch in the UI and then edited the yaml for the entity I really need. Iāll see if that works. I kind of understand 80% of the manual configuration, I just am not confident so I fall back on the UI.
Hey Lloyd, You used the term dimmers ā¦so my best guess is that since HA separates lights and switches into separate domains. Your automation needs to be switch.turn_on vs light.turn_on