I currently have an ISY with the Z-Wave chip and am generally happy.  My children use devices with HomeKit but don't live with me.  My wife can't do any programming but is an end-user.  I see that ISY is migrating to Polisy.  With all of this in mind, my goal is to not replace all my Insteon (~35 light switches and plug-in modules) and Z-Wave Devices (just 3 plug-in modules), but would like to add Apple Home capability.  What do people recommend for this step?  Also, how does this fit into the future of ISY with Polisy?  How would you work through this? 

 

Thanks,

Mitchell

Edited July 11, 20214 yr by mfbrin
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2 hours ago, mfbrin said:

I currently have an ISY with the Z-Wave chip and am generally happy.  My children use devices with HomeKit but don't live with me.  My wife can't do any programming but is an end-user.  I see that ISY is migrating to Polisy.  With all of this in mind, my goal is to not replace all my Insteon (~35 light switches and plug-in modules) and Z-Wave Devices (just 3 plug-in modules), but would like to add Apple Home capability.  What do people recommend for this step?  Also, how does this fit into the future of ISY with Polisy?  How would you work through this? 

 

Thanks,

Mitchell

It doesn't fit in with the Isy and Polisy. The Isy doesn't support Homekit and in regards to future support, I wouldn't count on it in the near future (if ever). There is a way you can integrate the Isy with Homekit but you would need to do the work to get things running. 

 

There is a roundabout way to get homekit support of ISY nodes.  I don't know very much about it, and don't currently have it set up, so I can't tell you anything about possible limitations or answer questions.  However when I first set up Home Assistant (I use Home Assistant more or less as an ISY front end) and was playing with things I added the HomeKit Integration and was able to add all my ISY nodes including insteon devices.   After just trying lots of random things with my first install of Home Assistant, once I was comfortable with how things worked etc, and had a better idea of what I wanted to actually use.. I started over with a fresh install which of course erased my homekit integration, and I never set that one back up.  In short you can use Home Assistant as a middleman.  Add the Universal Devices integration first then add the homekit integration and it will auto discover your Insteon and Z-wave devices.

1 hour ago, MrBill said:

There is a roundabout way to get homekit support of ISY nodes.  I don't know very much about it, and don't currently have it set up, so I can't tell you anything about possible limitations or answer questions.  However when I first set up Home Assistant (I use Home Assistant more or less as an ISY front end) and was playing with things I added the HomeKit Integration and was able to add all my ISY nodes including insteon devices.   After just trying lots of random things with my first install of Home Assistant, once I was comfortable with how things worked etc, and had a better idea of what I wanted to actually use.. I started over with a fresh install which of course erased my homekit integration, and I never set that one back up.  In short you can use Home Assistant as a middleman.  Add the Universal Devices integration first then add the homekit integration and it will auto discover your Insteon and Z-wave devices.

For curiosity I just added  ISY devices to the Homekit App on my Iphone, via Home Assistant.

It works..... though the UD Mobile App is much easier to use. Maybe there is an advantage if I would want to create an automation using my Apple devices, but I don't see the need for this.

14 hours ago, asbril said:

but I don't see the need for this.

I didn't see the need either, thus the reason I didn't re-install it.   There are some people that can't live without Siri and want to use the apple Home app.  Maybe if I started that way I'd still be growing my system from that aspect, but at this point it seems like just one more branch on a tree that adds additional maintenance needs that serves no purpose for my uses.

Edited July 12, 20214 yr by MrBill

1 hour ago, MrBill said:

There are some people that can't live without Siri

Really ????