Hello All,
I'm a new user here. I've been using insteon for quite a while and have 68 devices in my home including all of the light switches plus some other things.
I was previously using a PLM connected to a hydroflash system for my yard light controls and an insteon Hub2 connected to OpenHAB for Google Home connectivity. The back door method I was using (Hue Emulation) can no longer be used with Google home as you now must go through the Philips web site to pair a Hue hub, which breaks all of the emulation solutions.
I ordered the 994 and then a couple of days later, Insteon released their native integration for the Hub2. I tried it and had very unsatisfactory results: slow performance, lots of errors, and the impossibility of using voice control for anything connected to an I/O Linc (Like one of my fireplaces is). Insteon does this on purpose because it might be used to control a garage door...
My ISY arrived on Friday and I've spent the last couple of days getting things set up. I'm pretty technical and so I LOVE the product. There is great, complete documentation with examples for pretty much everything. Nice work to the dev team! Performance is excellent and everything works as expected (once I figured out to export my multi-way switch scenes to Google Home as "Light" type).
The one thing I can't really figure out is the best way to voice-control a Fanlinc which I have connected to a Keypad Linc exactly as described here:
https://wiki.universal-devices.com/index.php?title=ISY994i:INSTEON_Device:FanLinc-KPL_FanLinc_KeypadLinc_Configuration
I exported the 4 scenes and can select them using Google Home, but it would be nicer to just be able to say "Hey Google, set the fan to medium" or something like that.
Is it possible?
Thanks,
Scott
PS: The one piece of documentation which was not obvious was the order of steps needed to install, configure and activate the ISY portal prior to enabling Google Home support.