MrBill

If you're just starting with z-wave stick with all 700 series devices (there are also older 500 series, and even older 300 series devices). Having older devices can slow down your entire z-wave network.

The PLM needs to be booted up first. it must be connected to Polisy when Polisy starts or Polisy won't detect the port. Are you having trouble starting the admin console and getting connected to Polisy? Or was it simply not responding because of the PLM issue? If you need more admin console help tell us if you are using Windows or a Mac.

he's trying to tell you to use the letter lowercase L, not a 1.... ssh -l admin 192.168.1.1.21

I think the real problem is he's a drag and drop type of millennial and he's seen the admin console and thinks its dated, but he does vocalize it as java that he doesn't want.

I just went and read the Insteon Integration page at Home Assistant, and some additional information from reddit. If auto discovery works, adding devices is not difficult. If Auto Discovery fails which apparently is common on hubs then the device must be added via Device Override. Although some fields are much "optional" they are only optional as far as the interface, to get full features one must lookup the values for "cat" and "subcat" from Insteon documentation and enter those to successfully add the device. In the ISY world, the ISY knows those even for a manual add based on the dropdown choice. Additionally appropriately most users don't know where to find that info, which is the specs section of the full user manual for the device (not the Quick start guide). CC: @Javi (additional info)

I bet they will be back in stock on Monday, I think the number on the website is simply what they have assembled, tested, packed and ready to go out the door. You can also email sales@universal-devices.com to get your hands on one.

I don't believe that's true, it's just very difficult to re-add all devices (harder than the process we go thru it seems from posts I've read on reddit, but it's possible. One difficulty people are encountering tho is the schedules seem to be stored in the hub, and I don't think anyone knows how to access those, and perhaps the HA integration leaves that part out... Meaning to get rid of existing schedules the user may end up at the pain point of factory reset/re-add devices of the hub just to get rid of existing schedules. I'll know more in the days and weeks to come. My son refuses to have an ISY at his house over java. I even offered to buy him one several times over the years. He's allergic to java apparently, not sure where that came from, but he dislikes coffee too, perhaps he's confused about the relationship. We are going to convert his installation to HUB --> HA.

no. correct. His ad has been linked here many times. He now apparently has 2 prices based on what's wrong. $75 or $55 The Hub2 (2245) appears to interface to Home Assistant. Which is probably covered better on the reddit thread linked in this post than it will be on this forum. UDI is working to acquire some PLMs.

Pi4's have been more expensive across the board than they were when I bought the last one (dec 2020)-- I noticed that last fall when I evaluated "Home Assistant Yellow". I wouldn't call Amazon pricing premium tho it might be a few dollars more than I would pay in-store at Microcenter, but Microcenter is a two hour round-trip. Perhaps Amazon.ca has different pricing strategies for pi's?

I have both also and agree, the Pro radios won't be needed soon, and if and when they are I'm sure there will be a way to add them.

Luckily I ordered a pi4 4gb yesterday and amazon delivered it same day. There were only 5 in-stock when I ordered tho. Pi's have been in short supply, but they can be found and yesterday I got lucky.

The pro contains a wifi and bluetooth radio that's not included in the non-pro, AFAIK that's the only different. With today's software and firmware the Pro features are not used. You could conceivable use the wifi to connect to your network, but if you have a way to hardwire you would pick that method.

Richmond Capital Partners is a much larger worldwide organization. the 7.3 million they paid in 2017 is a drop in the bucket, but I am surprised they appear ready to just lose it all, rather than try to sell a functioning company. It's worth much less dead in the water. Someone did point out on reddit yesterday that the domain name smarthome.com (just as a name, not the business it under it) is extremely valuable just as the name alone... it should sell for record .com values.

No, you can use your Serial 2413s PLM with polisy. You need a different cable than you've been using with your ISY994 tho. The one you need is the one that came in the box with the 2413s, maybe you kept it, maybe you pitched it. If you got rid of it, there are several threads with replacement solutions. Ordering it, or ordering an adpater from amazon. Zooz 700. UDI sells them now. Or you can get one from Amazon. Doesn't seem like it to me.

I think nodelink has a provision for the type of logging you're interested in. I haven't used it. What I do, is create a notification via the notification Node server. I send it to a separate pushover "application" that I created on the pushover website called Log. I send it with a higher priority and sound disabled. When I want to look at it i just open pushover on my phone and pick the LOG entries.

I don't know. I'm not an expert on 2245 hubs.. my son uses one, but i haven't set HA up for him yet. I wouldn't think 'network reset' would wipe the devices from the hub tho. Your Hub remains plugged into your local network just as it is today. You need to find the IP address of the hub via your router and tell Home Assistant what it is. Use the Username and password from the label on the bottom of your HUB, not what you've been using with the cloud server. Yes it's very clear how to set up HA on a pi... Follow this process: https://www.home-assistant.io/getting-started/ PS, buy the 4gb Pi4 PS2: add the Google Drive backup Add-on ASAP: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/add-on-home-assistant-google-drive-backup/107928

He is, but he also has a houseful of Insteon. Still got to have a method to get Insteon into the picture. I have HA using the Universal Devices Integration. Originally installed because I needed a better 'out of house' mobile experience. I did spend hours configuring dashboards. In retrospect it was worth it tho, this is the first Wife Approved automation phone app. I laid the dashboards out in a way that makes sense for our house, she uses them! and even has one trigger as a a complication on her Apple watch.

@JGallombardo Mobilinc Pro via the ISY portal is very easy. On the lighting controller page: Secure https:// my.isy.io Secure port 443 Username and Password are your Portal Credentials Note: due to the fact your portal credentials are used, you can't mix in a local connection on the same Profile. You can create multiple Profiles in mobilinc however-- One for your local network using HTTP and one for access via the portal. In reality, I don't use mobilinc too much anymore, but it is handy for a few things but I always use just locally now.

Yes, here is a better reddit post than I linked yesterday. I'm going to try to set up the hub to HA scenario tomorrow at my son's house. He has actively refused having an ISY at his house (I even told him I'd give him one) because he won't load java for any reason.

If it disappears I may stick the whole lot of what I downloaded on my webserver until I get a DCMA take down notice... but I doubt anyone cares.

you can still take the HA route, its more detailed as I understand it to get each Insteon added back

https://www.linkedin.com/in/roblilleness/ I had to go see this with my own eyes. He has in fact deleted Smartlabs from his experience section. Wish I had a screen shot of the original.

Yes, that's what he was saying.

Right... I wasn't worried about that set of documents disappearing... I grabbed 324 pdf's but there are a bunch of dups... I didn't have time to go thru the list yet.

You probably need to add spoken's in the my.isy.io website. See this wiki article: https://wiki.universal-devices.com/index.php?title=ISY_Portal_Amazon_Echo_Integration_V3 I'll have to give you mobilinc instructions later.... mines not set up with portal right now and I need to locate my notes.