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Yep. I only have a few switches in the garage, along with some Ring and Yolink devices, and they all integrate with the single eisy just fine.

Maybe others have had better luck than I have with sharing Insteon between two buildings that have some distance between them. I have a garage about 60 feet from the main house structure, and it's on the same electrical service as the main house (which is where my eisy is). I tested a few Insteon devices in the garage to see if I could get them to respond but wasn't successful. Network connectivity, however, worked great across both structures. So I used Kasa WiFi switches instead of Insteon in the garage. They connect to the eisy via a plugin and work just fine.

I use the Shelly plugin with my eisy to control multiple RGBW LED strips, mainly for illuminating a vaulted wooden ceiling with ambient light. The LED strips I use were reasonably priced and are available through Amazon (Pautix RGBW 2700K COB LED Strip Lights). Most of the time they just display a warm white color, but it's kind of fun to introduce some color on a game day or holiday. The strips run off 24V, which helps with consistent brightness on longer runs. They use about 5W of power per linear foot (the Shelly devices can typically tell you, via their app, the power usage). I have the strips in aluminum channels with diffusers (also purchased from Amazon), and the density of the COB LED strips is high enough that it just looks like a solid line of light versus a bunch of bright dots. I could probably get away without the channels and diffusers, but in addition to physically protecting the strips they also offer some heat dissipation which could help prolong the strip lifespan. Overall, I've been happy with the warm white and color capabilities, brightness and dimming, control via eisy (with a Home Assistant front end), the Shelly devices and app, etc. The Shelly plugin is kind of limited in terms of which devices it supports (mainly the RGBW2), and it hasn't been updated in a couple of years, but it seems to work for my limited needs. I mainly use the eisy to turn them on/off or set the colors via a four button Insteon i3 switch (I don't use the switch for dimming). The native Shelly app provides additional capabilities to easily group lights together, adjust brightness and dimming, adjust colors, etc. I believe Shelly has a matter bridge, so once the eisy fully supports matter that may help with future proofing automation through eisy if the Shelly plugin has issues.

I haven't specifically tried their retrofit LED lights, but I installed a bunch of pot lights to replace multiple can fixtures from Amico (via Amazon) and have been very pleased with the results. They have a variety of different size retrofit and pot lights in black or white. You can set color/warmth (2700K/3000K/4000K/5000K/6000K) easily, and they also offer a "night light" feature which just illuminates a small ring around the outside of the light (we use that in a home theater setting and it's awesome). I haven't had any issues using the new Insteon paddle switches/dimmers with the pot lights. But your application, and how many fixtures you have on the load, may differ than mine. BTW - you can buy about a dozen of the retrofit fixtures for about what it costs to purchase one Insteon switch these days, so check the reviews and give it a try. If you don't like it, you can always return it.

You might also check the switch firmware to make sure you are running the latest/current version. I have three Zen30 switches and they were pretty wonky at first, especially when I tried to get two to work in a group via associations. I reported some issues to Zooz and they eventually put out a new version of firmware which helped, but just an FYI that there are several versions of the switch, and several versions of firmware. I think you can view firmware details here: https://www.support.getzooz.com/kb/article/393-zen30-double-switch-change-log/. I now have two Zen30s working as a group, and one that operates as a single. Here are some screen caps from my install for the switch that operates as a single: Top Level: Main Switch Control (021): Dimmer Control (021.1) Relay/Fan Control (021.2):

I've been using multiple SmartWings motorized shades with Matter (but no POE) for over a year now. Initially, they worked well with the SmartWings remote but control via Matter was kind of hit or miss. I use Amazon Alexa as the main environment to control my Matter devices. The shades would pair fine via the Alexa app but would frequently lose connection and automations were not that reliable. Early on, I questioned my decision to go with Matter versus something like ZWave, but the hope was that things would get better as Matter matured. Fortunately, things have improved over time. I still get drop-outs occasionally but the connections are better and more reliable than they used to be. The code in the shades hasn't changed, so I suspect improvements have happened elsewhere (like the Alexa app and my home network). The UI in the Alexa app is pretty weak, but I share the Matter connections to Home Assistant and the UI there is much better. It provides a nice simple compact status and control interface with the added benefit of being able to show battery levels for the shades. I think Matter still has a ways to go, but I'm happy with the SmartWings shades overall. The price was reasonable. They function well with the remote (worst case), and automations (such as lowering automatically in the late afternoon when the sun is coming through the window) happen reliably enough that I don't think about the automation at all - it just becomes an invisible convenience.

Unfortunately, I really can't say - other than installing the software (which seemed uneventful), I haven't tested the UD Mobile beta or the new Matter functionality at all yet. But I got the sense that some folks were waiting on an iOS update to do some testing, and they may not have been aware of this option to get started.

There's a beta version of UD Mobile that was released today through TestFlight. That version (1.2.1 (224)) does appear to have some level of Matter enabled. I have no idea what the formal release plans or timing look like for general updates through the iOS App Store, but I'm sure the UD Team will push it out when it's ready.

Is any information available on how to setup or configure eisy to control Matter devices? I've enabled it via the Admin Console and can see "Matter" in the menubar, but I'm not quite sure how to go about adding devices. Also - does the network connection from eisy need to be WiFi to work with Matter, or can I continue to use a wired network connection?

Thanks @paulbates - I tried the instructions you posted but couldn't get it to work as expected for my LG TV. That said, I like the concept of using ChatGPT to come up with a technical solution, though I also realize one cannot necessarily assume the solution will be correct. I'll try a few more things to see if I can get control to work via network resources. Worst case, I'm pretty sure I can create a variable or virtual switch in eisy, expose it to Amazon through my.isy.io, and use that to signal an Alexa routine to turn the device on or off.

Does anyone have any guidance on how to provide basic on/off control of LG OLED TVs (model C2) via eisy? I looked at AVRemote but unfortunately it doesn't seem to support newer webostv devices. Is there a set of network resource files someone has created that would work? Or perhaps expose a variable in eisy that an Alexa skill could pick up and run a routine on?

Thanks, that did the trick.

I installed V1.2 and all of my Ring devices have gone offline for my EISY. The PG3x log shows lots of issues with expired tokens, failing to refresh the Oauth token, and calls to the Ring API failing. Something in this release has not gone well for my devices.

I believe there is an EISY plugin for the Shelly RGBW2 controller. I don't have mine setup right now, but I did some basic testing a while back and it seemed to work in controlling some LED tape lights I was using.

@Kentinada Definitely won't hurt to have two hubs online ... and might help depending on the construction where the sensors are located. Though I have to warn you ... once you have two hubs online, you may start wondering why you don't have more of their sensors.