thank you @asbril for the share.
I am also not a fan of mobilinc X for their subscription model. I pref the older ver I payed for once and is free afterwards.
I heard of home assist and since I already had iSY994 for sometime, I did not what to roll into another integration for the basic automation and amount of devices I currently have.
I see the flexibility of home assist. I am just not ready to flip into a subscription base service if not needed. For what little I do, just don't want to fall behind on ISY upgrades to the point of no support or a mountain of steps to claim to next release versions. That too would be more work that what is worth automating.
My true interest at the moment is to get the iSY 'electricity/demand' feature to work and report on electrical usage on devices. And I am seeing pull/push options requiring additional hardware to set from some of the posts I read so far. Seems a choice of Brultech GEM or Sense.com, which I continue to review past the firmware/hardware upgrade.
Thanks again