brians

2476S original. Still worked but I replaced with zwave switch. I have several in this range no longer using. First Insteon I got in 2005 - still have receipt.

Current Insteon devices will never support matter natively and will require something like the Insteon hub or eisy to bridge the devices to matter. Insteon hub has built in plm. Eisy requires a plm. However, neither of these devices currently have Matter support released. Therefore if you want to play with matter devices right now and have an Insteon hub, or eisy and insteon, then the best solution is to use home assistant and use respective integrations. Home assistant can then act as a matter bridge which should work with Insteon entities via integration. This should allow you to expose Insteon to other Matter like Apple, google etc. (in case of Apple I would suggest the HomeKit Bridge integration instead of mucking about with matter) https://smarthomescene.com/guides/exposing-home-assistant-entities-as-matter-devices/

If the only reason is to install Home Assistant, I don't believe the EISY would be the best experience. Instead buy an inexpensive PC for $50-$100 and install HA on it. Install the ISY integration and connect it to your Polisy. What we really need is IoX to be able to run in a VM such as Proxmox, but that will probably never happen but I can still wish... I would pay UDI for a license to do this... just a light version that supports Insteon only via USB PLM, with minimal programs, no node servers, z-wave, zmatter etc.

There should be an option to run multiple instances of an if/then statement in a program.

When I select a folder, and device in that folder, pressing top left back arrow takes me back to the root Devices and Scenes. The expected behaviour would be to go back to the previous folder. And it is not clear to click the picture of that house to go into devices. Took me a while to figure out also and I can see how people mistake it for a blank screen.

Received new one from Aartech and installed last Friday. Examine old one and nice and crispy... I would like to say that installing new Fanlinc went smoothly, but had a few issues on ISY side... Could not Add the new device in UD Mobile using the Insteon ID... seems that app only support adding Insteon using linking mode, which I could not seem to do from the fanlinc, or take time to bother figuring out. Had to run downstairs and add manually using the AC. Replacing fanclinc did not work using the replace device feature... got a not responding error after a reboot of AC. I ended up having to delete it and re-add again using AC. Naming it the same as before and doing a reload of Home Assistant ISY integration and everything working as before.

@BeakerIs your program in a disabled folder by any chance? If there is a condition in the folder which contains the program that is false, then you cannot even run the program manually.

I was running two separate Z-Wave networks for a while. When I moved from Home Assistant I moved Z-Wave devices from my Polisy manually by first excluding and then including in Home Assistant (Z-Wave JS). Both networks worked fine but I am only talking about 40 devices in total. I had my Polisy Z-Wave still working for long time as a test, but I recently disabled the radio since is useless to me. I only use Polisy for my legacy Insteon in case anyone reading this is wondering. I am not sure what would happen if had multiple larger Z-Wave networks, but I suspect it would still work because Z-Wave is encrypted to a particular controller so the other network will just ignore, and I don't think there is too much network chatter with Z-Wave. With Zigbee you can change the channel to run multiple coordinators, but cannot after adding devices or they need to be repaired. The Zigbee channels sit in the valleys between the WiFi channels' peaks so not really an issue with interference(at least I never found one and I am using all three common 2.4Ghz WiFi channels).

Heard a loud pop in middle of night woke us up. Dead FanLinc. Ordered a new one, should be in this week. This one was purchased in 2019, which was replacing a previously failed one which lasted longer, probably 8 years. I was going to look into other options for the fanlinc but not much out there and its just easier to replace this one and hopefully get another 4-5 years out of it.

Updated mine using AC. No issues.

No it is in admin firmware and says firmware 5.8.3 is up to date. I’ll try when at home later.

Don’t see update available on UD Mobile. I’m too lazy to open the admin console on my PC.

Well it definitely doesn’t “matter” if you are using an EISY or Polisy, because it’s not available yet! For those using other automation platforms it is working for quite a while, but there is not much incentive to use over other products right now. I only have a two Matter devices in my Home Assistant which are wiz wifi rgb bulbs - I use them as an experiment and they work ok but I prefer to stay away from wifi devices like that where needs some app to setup and maintain. Thread would be more interesting to me but I can’t bring myself to spend $ on a thread bulb or any other device and go down that rabbit hole just to test. I would rather just get more zigbee Hue bulbs.

That is meant for browsing websites in a kiosk mode. I see many use it for Home Assistant because its dashboards are web based - can get a cheap tablet and bolt it on the wall. With IoX they use Java and mobile apps to control so not sure it would be much use. There is a web interface but it is not developed at all since original ISY.

No sorry I was just curious about the long range since I always thought it was only with 800 series but your post made me learn something new today Hopefully UD reads this thread and clarifies if it supports LR or, if not, will so in future.