jc986

HAOS in a VM on the EISY is a very interesting idea. That would enable the fully managed version of HA+Linux with the add-ons in an internally managed docker instance - relatively low complexity from a user perspective. With the HA emphasis on a local / non-cloud Voice Assistant capability that might need to be accounted for.

Have you checked your HA log for errors with the ISY integration? I've only recently been migrating my programs / automations to HA from my EOL ISY994 and have run into what appears to be an issue with the integration code. When I made a device on the ISY a member of an HA scene it frequently doesn't respond and I see an error in the logs such as: 2023-12-27 22:25:10.550 ERROR (MainThread) [pyisy] ISY Reported an Invalid Command Received /nodes/XX%20XX%20XX%20X/cmd/DOF 2023-12-27 22:25:10.550 WARNING (MainThread) [pyisy] ISY could not send off command to XX XX X X. My solution for the moment has been to create Insteon scenes on the ISY and use the switch device the UD ISY/IoX integration creates for the ISY scene in HA as a member of the HA scene. If I get any spare time I'll try to dig into the issue with the integration (pyisy).

I had seen the Matter project popping up in various places as I was wondering if Matter and Thread had departed significantly from the original architecture and data model proposed by the Zigbee Alliance. Alas, the answer appears to be no. They still appear to be dedicated to their data model driven architecture and I wonder if the data models will be allowed to be private and / or licensed content / product. Am I the only one that thinks the feature(s) that (are) being ignored by ZWave, Zigbee, or any of the non-pro systems is coordination or true orchestration? Call it scene handling, command coordination, pick your description based upon your preferred method to achieve the requirement. It appears that orchestration and more complex actions is simply not part of the ConOps for many of these systems. If I'm going to use a motion detector to turn on the lights in a room I was to be able to control both the fade-up and fade-down times and I want all the lights/circuits involved to do so at the same time (coordinated). The Insteon dimmer feature I most want replicated in another system is programatic control of the local "on" brightness level. Being able to adjust that up or down based upon sunrise and sunset time might not seem like a big deal until you can't adjust it.