Diesel

Thanks for taking the time to share your detailed experience with the update on Polisy. I was just about to press that upgrade button (in AC) on my Polisy when I read your post. I have no time to resurrect the dead this week so I'm going to wait for Michel to work out the upgrade bugs before I hit that upgrade button.

While you can run an HA container in Synology Docker, it's a somewhat neutered version and won't have some essential functions like HA Supervisor which makes updating the components, OS and releases very simple. In Docker you'll need to make these updates manually by downloading and updating to the latest HA container each time. A much better option is to run the full version of HA as a virtual machine in Synology VMM (Virtual Machine Manager) by simply downloading a premade OVA. You'll find quite a few tutorials out there. Here's one I posted earlier on this thread.

I don't have any X10 devices but wonder if HA assigned the device type as a switch [On/Off] rather than a light [On/Off/Bright/Dim]. In HA, go to Settings | Devices & Services | and search for the device name on the Entities tab... Does the Entity ID start with switch.[devicename] or light.[devicename]?

1. No, you can search reddit or synology forum for specific models, but just about any externally powered 3.x USB hub should work fine. 2. I don't have any bluetooth devices in my HA. But if I did, BT is generally short range. My NAS is in a network closet in the basement of a large home and not an ideal location for a BT radio. A lot of users in the HA community use an ESP32 for this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=endqy0G6Dks

Glad you're happy. My pleasure.

The HASS virtual machine has its own virtual lan connection to your network. It can connect to any devices on your network as long you add the integration modules into HASS for those devices.

Aqara FP2 is WiFi, no zigbee or zwave radios/hub required. Here's a review and guide on how to add to Home Assistant. For blinds, one option is to look into the latest matter devices like the Eve MotionBlinds. Also just FYI because you mentioned node servers - any devices you add to ISY via node servers can be added to, and controlled by HomeAssistant through the ISY integration. In fact they're added by default unless you explicitly exclude them.

Yes, as I mentioned a couple of posts ago, in Synology VMM you can pass through USB devices to virtual machines. But due to the great development and driver support on Hubitat, I think your life will be a lot easier going that route...but first setup and play with a HASS VM without making any hardware commitments and see if you like it.

Using a Hubitat for your zigbee and zwave devices is just one option. You don't have to use one. I had one before I started with HASS so I used that as my zigbee & zwave hub. It's very stable and works well for everything I've thrown at it. Very active community & device driver development. If you do decide to go with it get the current C-8 model. If you go the RP4 route you'll still need to buy zigbee and zwave radios. My advice would be not to buy any hardware just yet. Instead get the HASS VM installed on your Syno first over a cup of coffee. Go thru the initial HASS setup, and add the ISY integration to get all your Insteon devices added to HASS. You can also add the integrations for any WiFi, Network, and cloud devices you may have. HASS will detect a bunch of devices on your network that you can add (ex; Hue, Apple TVs, Android, Samsung, LG TVs etc). Learn how it all works to see if you like it. Spend some time on the HASS community forum and ask questions. It's a very active place with a lot of helpful people. Once you get a good feel for HASS and you know you like it, then you can either get USB dongles for zigbee & Zwave radios and pass them thru to the VM, a Hubitat, or something else. If at that point you're convinced to go the RPi route, just create a HASS backup and restore the config on the RPI and you pickup where you left off in minutes. Good luck

Getting the HASS VM up and running is pretty quick. You just install the Syno VMM package, download the premade virtual machine OVA file, upload to Syno VMM and start the VM. There's quite a few videos and tutorials out there like this one Installing Home Assistant on Synology NAS using VMM WD Reds are NAS drives. HASS disk IO is minimal. Nothing to be concerned about. Don't be afraid to use your NAS for what it was intended for.

You have options. You can passthru USB devices to a virtual machine in Synology VMM. In my case I use a Hubitat hub that handles my zwave and zigbee devices. HASS has excellent integration for Hubitat so it's able to control everything. Over time you can have many different native hubs (Hue, ISY, Hubitat, etc) all connected to HASS as the brains and control center.

IMHO, if you don't already have one I would put the money instead into a Synology NAS and run HASS as a virtual machine on it. The NAS will do so much more for you, like provide network storage for all your files, documents, Windows and Mac (TimeMachine) client backups, storing Eisy backups. A 2 bay Synology DS224+ is only $299. It also runs Docker for other containers you may want to explore. There's a premade OVA (virtual machine) for HASS that can be imported into Synology VMM (virtual machine manager). It's practical because you can run snapshots on the VM before making any major changes and simple to roll back if things go wrong.

You have a config issue somewhere because I use it for quite a few automations and it's been very stable. Go back to a simple config. Have the scene contain only 1 keypad button, and make sure that button isn't assigned to any other scene to be sure nothing is conflicting. Be sure 2 linked entities are the new scene you created and the lights you want to control. You'll get it working. Sometimes it's just simple conflict somewhere. Edit: Just thought of something. Remove/Delete the Helper you created to change the switch to a light.

Create an ISY scene on Eisy and add the keypad button(s) as controller(s) to that that scene. Name the ISY scene something easy to identity in HA, ex: Dinning Room KP B, or Light Scene X buttons(s). Reload the ISY integration on HA. The new scene will show up as a switch. In HA | Automations download a Blueprint called Linked-Entities. Then create a new automation using that Blueprint to link the ISY scene (KP button) and the light group.

@shbatm Would it be possible to add an option in the configuration to completely ignore selected Node Servers including all devices and entities related to that node server? Maybe a drop down checkbox with a list of connected Node Servers. Example: I use the Hue Node Server in IoX so that I can use keypads to control Hue lights that can't be accomplished in HA. But I already have my Hue lights in Home Assistant directly with the native Hue integration. I don't want all these devices and their entities added in duplicate again from the NS. This just creates a huge mess. The Hue hub creates Groups for rooms, and Zones (groups of lights) so if you have 10-20 Hue lights you'll end with about 30-40 devices in the IoX NS. I don't want to have to rename them all with an ignore string, especially since IoX has limited characters for naming. Thanks for your hard work and great integration!

Ah, so you experience the same behavior? At least it helps me confirm it’s not a misconfiguration issue from my side. Although I’m surprised that @shbatm wouldn’t have mentioned that what I’m experiencing is expected behavior. I dont quite grasp what you mean about using button entities instead. Aren’t Insteon keypad buttons just sensor entities in HA without any ability to control underlying devices? Oddly, before i setup the HA IoX integration I’d been using a Homebridge container with an ISY plugin (Rod Toll?) that also allowed you present native Insteon scenes as switches and behaved correctly in Apple HomeKit. You hit the ‘scene switch’ and it turned on only that specific scene without affecting other scenes that had the same devices (WatchTV and Relax). I’ve been trying to move to HA to consolidate all my hubs there as automation devices become more and more fragmented. It’s a great platform for this, but this Insteon scene issue is causing some major grief, especially with the wife who uses Homebridge most of the time. I’ve thought about using a dummy switch in HA that toggles a variable in IoX that sets a scene state, but that just seems cludgy and cumbersome for all the scenes we use. Hopefully we can come up with a better solution that works properly and improve the IoX integration.

No apology my friend. Appreciate you taking the time to try to help. The world is a better place because of people like you. Thanks!

@MrBill The issue is rather straightforward; 2 separate scenes containing the same Insteon devices just set to different levels for each scene, and a separate secondary keypad button set as controller for each scene. For simplicity; WatchTV set at 80% - Keypad E controller Relax set at 20% - Keypad F controller Both scenes and their corresponding keypad buttons behave correctly when the root scene is turned on in Admin Console. HA integration imports IoX scenes as switches. When the corresponding switch for WatchTV is turned ON in HA, so is the corresponding scene switch to the Relax scene which should be OFF, and vice versa.

@MrBill With both scenes currently showing OFF in IoX and HA, turned on the WatchTV scene by pressing the ON button in the root of the WatchTV scene. This is what the 2 scenes look like now in IoX. In HA both scenes are turned ON.

Hey, thanks for the help! They're 2 different scenes and a keypad button as controller. That was my first hunch as well, but everything seems to be set correctly at the root scene and the red node. But in HA if for example I turn on the switch for Relax, Watch TV is also turned on and vice versa. What am I missing??

Glad to hear this isn't expected behavior. I'm stumped as to what's causing it. Haven't changed the secondary keypad buttons from their default. No group buttons, as far as I can tell they're all setup as default toggle. Keypad buttons and scenes were all working fine until I added the HA IoX integration. For simplicity - I see the exact same behavior with 2 simple scenes in the Den. Watch TV and Relax. I have the opposing keypad buttons added to each scene with the on level as OFF as you described. Yet if I toggle the corresponding 'scene switch' for either scene in HA, the other scene and corresponding button is also turned ON. I've attached screenshots of both scenes and the keypad settings. I must have something set incorrectly but I just don't see it.

@shbatm Great job on the integration! Thank you for your hard work. I just set up the integration between Polisy (IoX) and HA. But the way it handles IoX native Insteon scenes isn't working the way I would expect, and causes major issues with my keypads. Here's a scenario to describe the issue; 3 Insteon only scenes setup in the kitchen, with a keypad button assigned as a controller for each scene. Cooking, Dining & Cleanup. All of these scenes include the same devices (insteon dimmers) for each scene, but the lighting levels are set to different levels. These scenes used to work perfectly before I added the HA integration, but now when I enable the Cooking scene, both the Dining and Cleanup scene keypads are also enabled. This shows the same behavior within the HA dashboard. All 3 scenes are imported into HA as switches as expected, but if you turn on the Cooking switch, the Dining and Cleanup switches also get enabled. I see the exact same behavior with other scenes throughout the house that have the same devices as responders. Am I doing something wrong or is this bug, or expected behavior?

Hi Lee, Thanks for your help. I've created the variable and related program, and updated the email notif program as you outlined. When trying to rename the variable from Int_1 to something meaningful, it always seems to reset back to Int_1? I'm surprised that there's no simpler (or inherent) way to throttle or limit the number/interval of emails sent when motion is detected? For example: You have a motion sensor in the back yard and want to receive an email notification when there's movement, so you can have a look on your cameras to see what's going on. If the gardner shows up, your inbox gets hammered every second while cuts the grass!

Hi Michel, I just want to receive an email notification as soon as the motion sensor is triggered, but only once and then not again for X minutes, otherwise the notifications flood my inbox. I don't want the system to wait 15mins after sensing motion to notify me. For example, the sensor will detect motion when the Gardner is cutting the grass, but currently I would receive 35 emails a minute. Just once would be fine, and then if motion continues 15 or 30mins later, it can send another notification again. How do I achieve this? Thanks for your help.

Hi all, Need some help with a new 2420M ver2.0 Motion Sensor and email notification. 2420M is installed outside for night time perimeter security. All seems to work triggering the lights I've specified in the program. Next objective was to send myself an email notification when it sensed motion. So I added the program below and it works, but how do I get it to send just 1 email instead of 15-20 of them? If Control 'Outside / Outside:Motion-Sensor' is switched On Then Send Notification to 'Me' content 'Outside Rear Motion Detected' Wait 15 minutes Else - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action') It seems like it sends an email each time the sensor detects motion, even a few seconds apart which hammers my inbox. I had hoped adding the 'Wait 15 mins' would help, but no luck. What am I missing?