zg825 Posted October 20, 2020 Posted October 20, 2020 I have the ISY994i series that I have been using for about 2 years. I am not too pleased with the App for ISY and considering switching to a new app. I realized that I don't use a lot of the advanced features of ISY, and basically just it to control my lights, and have some on a schedule. I think these are basic functions of Insteon. An issue I have is that I have a fan that is about 25 feet high that has the fan control board. If i switch to Insteon, I would need to go around the house and pair them to the new Hub. Getting to this fan unit is extremely tough and I would need to bring out someone with a tall ladder for that. Is there a way to transfer over all the connections from ISY to Insteon? Also, if something happened to the ISY hub, is there a way to just swap in a new ISY hub and all my existing controls would still be there?
simplextech Posted October 20, 2020 Posted October 20, 2020 21 minutes ago, zg825 said: I am not too pleased with the App for ISY and considering switching to a new app. Lot of work because of an app. There are several apps for the ISY so without you saying which one it's hard to help with anything. Given the open nature of the ISY and several apps existing now and likely more in the future it's more of a choose your own adventure thing. The Insteon Hub only has one app... and too bad if you don't like it and good luck with support. As for migrating devices to the Insteon hub... never done it. So I don't know I've migrated to/from other systems and it's generally pretty easy and sometimes doesn't even require physical touch of the devices if the new controller supports link management and you can wipe the links and install new one's. Otherwise you will have to physically reset each device which is a PITA. As for the ISY. If it fails and you have a backup then it's very easy to just swap in a new ISY. It's not so easy with the Insteon Hub as it's mostly cloud based and I've read where other's had to send the unit to them and wait for a replacement but I dunno.
lilyoyo1 Posted October 20, 2020 Posted October 20, 2020 2 hours ago, zg825 said: I have the ISY994i series that I have been using for about 2 years. I am not too pleased with the App for ISY and considering switching to a new app. I realized that I don't use a lot of the advanced features of ISY, and basically just it to control my lights, and have some on a schedule. I think these are basic functions of Insteon. An issue I have is that I have a fan that is about 25 feet high that has the fan control board. If i switch to Insteon, I would need to go around the house and pair them to the new Hub. Getting to this fan unit is extremely tough and I would need to bring out someone with a tall ladder for that. Is there a way to transfer over all the connections from ISY to Insteon? Also, if something happened to the ISY hub, is there a way to just swap in a new ISY hub and all my existing controls would still be there? No. 2 separate and incompatible systems. You could get the insteon ID from your admin console to add your devices to the hub. However, you would not be able to factory reset it. In this case, I would write down the id, unlink it from whatever scenes it is part of, and delete it from the Isy PRIOR to adding it to the hub. The same would need to be done for any other embedded devices. The rest, you would manually factory reset prior to adding to the hub.
zg825 Posted October 29, 2020 Author Posted October 29, 2020 Thank you very much for the information.
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