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Gave up and put an Insteon plug in front of MH dev

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:17:05 +0000

I've been fighting this battle for a year ... trying to get a KPL button to control a MH device through a scene. Nothing has worked - removing scenes, removing the KPL and re-adding, removing the MH device, even swapping to a new MH device.

I ended up putting an Insteon on-off plug in front to turn it on and off and linked that to the scene, which did the trick. Not as elegant as it should be, but functional (especially for my other half who has chided me for a year "why doesn't it just work like it used to!"

Just a note for others who are battling a similar issue :)

MH devices not working in scene any longer

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 01:14:56 +0000

Not sure if this is due to a recent update or not, but I had some corrupted KPL files in my EISY that I had to remove/replace the KPLs (fixed it). However, I have one LED strip that works in the MH app, works in Google Assistant, and seems to work in the UD app on my phone and on the console when I tell it to go ON or OFF (I'm watching it physically go on and off).

The weirdness now is that it doesn't show on the UH console whether it's on or off... but does on the UDI app (see attached image). Not a major issue, but I'm trying to suss out why that's not updating but the UDI app does?

More problematic: I have this light in a scene so that it can be controlled with a KPL button (and a few other "all off" scenarios), and it's not responding. It used to work relatively flawlessly - I'd have to restart the PG3 once in a while (especially after a power outage) but for 1+ year it's been good. Now the only way to turn it on or off is via the UDI app, MH app, or voice via Google Assistant (so we KNOW it's connected, working, but just not being part of the scene).

Any thoughts, ideas, or suggestions?

In a related issue... I have about a dozen accent lights tied to a scene. Executing the scene from EISY I usually have 2-4 that don't respond... but when executing a similar scene from Google Assistant, 100% come on (albeing VERY slowly, one by one).

PG3x ver 3.3.18, IoX 5.9.1

Type 6 MagicHome devices: behave like type 68?

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 20:23:57 +0000

I recently purchased a MagicHome-family RGBW LED strip controller (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QG7HCZG) and attempted to use it with the MagicHome node server (just started the 30 day free trial).

"On" and "Off" worked but the other settings didn't work and I saw some "Unrecognized bulb type 6" errors.

Poking at the rgbled.py script it appears that the type 6 I have behaves similarly to a type 68 (things started working better when I edited the script to change "WWBULB=6" instead of "WWBULB=68"; setting dim levels and colors work properly now).

Any chance that support for this could be added to the official release?

Post update to PG3x v3.2.20, must add nodes manually

Fri, 22 Mar 2024 13:04:22 +0000

Hey, it looks like there hasn't been much activity here in a while so I hope this hasn't been abandoned.

Following the PG3x upgrade to v3.2.30, I ran into an issue getting the nodes discovered.

There's a whole chronology of the saga I wrote up here:

But what this all came down to is: after this upgrade I had to manually add each node for it to be recognized.

Is this a familiar scenario to anyone else? Not just this version upgrade, but has anyone had it in the past?

"Install" and its already installed and to latest version

Fri, 18 Aug 2023 18:39:57 +0000

@bpwwerI installed PG3x 3.2.2 and it lists "Install" as the action option for the nodeserver which has been running great. I installed again and it still lists option as "Install" -- not a big deal to me but wanted to let you know.

MagicHome Scenes

Tue, 06 Jun 2023 19:47:43 +0000

I've been playing with the MH app and really finding it to be pretty awesome. The ability to group lights into a Scene - with colors and brightness levels - is exactly what I want. I've got scenes setup for "All lights green" and "all lights blue" as well as "all lights on" (uses last setting) and "all lights off"

What I haven't been able to figure out is how to trigger these scenes via EISY... I'm trying to drive everything through one app.

I've figured out how to do it via HA but I am trying to keep it on EISY.

Anyone have ideas on how to do that? @bpwwer @larryllix

Problem after update EISY 5.5.4

Sun, 05 Feb 2023 02:00:00 +0000

After the latest update posted... I now have 5 "bad actors" out of 23. They are fully accessible and work with MagicHome app... but just will not play with the UD portal.

I deleted everything on EISY- re-added MagicHome Node Server, and discovered nodes. Only 18 were showing up. I manually added the 5 that didn't show up, but they just won't work with UD Mobile or UD Portal. They are fine with Magichome app.

Any ideas?

Setting up different scenes for 20+ bulbs

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 23:27:38 +0000

I'm looking at our LED accent lights - right now there are about 21 lights and they are set up for holidays, some green, some red. They work perfectly, coming back on to the last color setting when they were turned off.

At different holidays, we change these (orange/purple for Haloween, blue for other seasons, green normally). I have these colors set-up in the MagicHome app and it's relatively easy to change them.

I'm wondering if there's a way through this Node Server and scenes to have "Christmas" or "Haloween" or "Blue" as a command that sets each light to the color I want?

I'm looking at the list of devices and I can set RGB values, but I am stumped how to set each one up with different colors ... unless I add each one multiple times at different color settings?

Thanks in advance for the help!

EISY - MH is a little flaky, day 4

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 23:05:47 +0000

Greetings! I finished migrating ISY994 to EISY (with a lot of help from Michel, we found some weirdness, he was able to fix things) and then went on to the next step - migrate MH lights off of insteon controllers and control directly with EISY and this Node Server.

I had 21 various LED bulbs and strips all behind Insteon controllers... ISY would turn them on/off, and if I ever needed to adjust colors, I'd do it with the MagicHome app. I've now eliminated the insteon controllers and plugged the MH lights in directly for almost all of them (I have to have 3 remain insteon controlled for another month - too difficult to get to the controllers to remove them).

I see in the logs that those three generate errors (since insteon is off, makes sense). I'm wondering if those errors popping up every few minutes are causing other issues?

I've had to reinstall the MH Node Server several times - it will just stop working, sometimes show "disconnected" in the PG3 dashboard. I've tried restarting EISY no change, but reinstalling seems to do the trick.

Right now I have a hybrid system with 23 MH nodes and 35 (ish) insteon controllers, keypadlincs, and remotelincs. When it's working, it's pretty cool - a keypadlinc or remotelinc button turns on a scene that has both MH and insteon controlled lights ... that was the goal When it's not working, the insteon stuff remain working but I have to go to the MagicHome app to control those lights so getting some grief from the other person in the house who just wants things to work (common problem many of us have, I think!).

@bpwwer is there anything I should be doing - capturing logs, ?? It seems like the system is a little "flaky" requiring a lot of manual tending to to keep it going- hopefully this is just early adopter bugs.

Thank you for this

Tue, 27 Dec 2022 23:38:56 +0000

Howdy! This thread is a little old, but it's new to me just now installing an EISY to replace my ISY994.

Bob @bpwwer I really want to thank you for this little gem of a node.

I have over 25 LED accent lights all over the house (ambient), each one behind an Insteon controller. The new set-up will eliminate all of those (aging, some over 12 years old) Insteon on/off modules and give me single-app control of both on/off and color. WOO HOO.

I had to move off of Insteon as the modules have started reaching EOL. Luckily I haven't had any break apart or melt as some have... but I am losing about 1 every other month lately, and my supply of extras was exhausted (and given Insteon's lack of supply and survival not totally guaranteed, it was the kick I needed to move to a more open multivendor HA platform.

I had to install your Node Server a few times to get it to move from "disconnected" to "connected" (and had to restart PG3) but once it worked, it was amazingly fast.

So, THANK YOU. My journey continues ... but this was the most important first step!

Work With Govee?

Sat, 17 Dec 2022 18:07:09 +0000

Will the MagicHome node server work with Govee lights? The node server will not discover the Govee lights. I manually entered the information and the lights were added to the nodes list. However, they will not connect. The nodes show up in the Admin Console as not connected. The log shows "socket connect failed". The Govee node server is working fine. I wanted to compare MagicHome to Govee if possible.

Thank you!

Not working

Mon, 14 Nov 2022 18:09:58 +0000

As of today, maybe yesterday, I cant control my magic home light strips through the ISY. I tried restarting the node server and still wont work.

Production or Non-Production?

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 18:10:26 +0000

I purchased and installed the Node server when it was only in the non-prodcution store and it is labeled as Beta. Works great for my very limited use of LED strips.

I now see it in the production store with same version number. Simply for future support purposes, should I install again from the production store?