jkmonroe

can you react to status coming back from the Hue bulbs with Insteon devices? for example, a trigger turns on my kitchen - could i have the keypad turn on the corresponding button light? i think this has pushed me over the edge to order the ISY. before I do, is the Polyglot and 5.X firmware publicly available?

i doubt they would kill that, but it is a risk of every integrated device, isn't it?

thanks for that. so to get 'better' hue integration, i would need to run the Polyglot node server on a rPi. that's no problem. the ISY would then be told where to look for my node server somehow, and devices/integrations configured on the node server become serviceable to the ISY as devices. in the particular case of Hue, rather than going the roundabout way using the network resource to write directly to the API, the Hue lights discovered in the node server simply become available devices to the ISY? so if each of my 39 bulbs would be directly addressable, it seems like my original idea of using the keypads to turn Hue bulbs/groups/scenes on and off would be doable. this probably isn't the place for this question, but my current HA controller actually polls the Hue bridge to get the status of the bulbs - would this be something possible using Polyglot? i can see how this would be amazingly powerful. if there was a powered USB port on the ISY you could just sticky the rPi on top.

this right here is what im trying to decipher. What is a Polyglot node server? I tried to read those threads, but they're not really for the beginner. Would you be so kind as to explain that to me from the bottom up? treat me like a 5 year old.

hahah. it's on my todo list, but i have 0 Insteon devices, so it's a rather large investment to get everything necessary. i need to make sure it does what is expected of it so i dont have to sleep on the couch. i actually have one saved in my cart, so if i can figure out this hue thing, ill bite and order it up.

i replied in my thread, but i don't yet have an ISY. im asking these questions to try and get a feel for how it all works together before i purchase.

i don't have an ISY yet, hence me asking all of these questions.

this is basically what i'm looking for as well. i have Hue bulbs everywhere, and would like to augment them with the keypads to turn groups on/off and enable scenes with feedback.

yep, that would seem to do what i want. except instead of a switch, i'd be using a button on a keypad.

So I have been reading the forum for days now, trying to get a feel for how Hue is (or can be) integrated with the ISY, and I'm a bit confused. As I understand it, you basically interact with the Hue bridge by formatting the URL in order to accomplish what it is you're attempting, right? So for example, if I wanted to call a scene, I can save a network resource somewhere that has all of the formatted URLs for recall. But how do I call that? Can I link it to a keypad button as a scene or a program? There is also something about the Polyglot rPi thing that I don't fully understand which supposedly has Hue support baked in. I do have a couple of rPis laying around doing nothing if that is what I need. I don't have the largest Hue install out there, but I am currently at 39 bulbs. I am hoping to replace my Taps and Dimmers with the 6 and 8 button Insteon keypads. Considering that I wired everything to be always on, I won't have any load control, and am hoping to use the buttons as on/off switches for light groups and scenes. Is this a viable scenario? The ISY is already supported by my HA controller, so I could backdoor it that way, but would prefer to keep 'lighting' as a separate system that doesn't fully rely on my server running.