vbPhil Posted December 16, 2022 Posted December 16, 2022 Would love to see a lessons learned or tips and tricks for Home Assistant with ISY. Are there any? I just spun up an HA instance in a Docker Container on my Windows laptop while waiting for IoX 5.5.0 to be fixed. It looks pretty cool but full of new things to learn. If I find that I like it my plan would be to purchase an ODROID-N2+ 4GB Home Assistant bundle in the Spring when they become available.
MrBill Posted December 16, 2022 Posted December 16, 2022 1 hour ago, vbphil said: If I find that I like it my plan would be to purchase an ODROID-N2+ 4GB Home Assistant bundle in the Spring when they become available. Why aren't they available now? Actually the Ameridroid page does say "pre-order now" But as far an I know the delay is only days until they assemble another unit to ship. I'm just confused where you're getting "Spring" from. I've known people to have ordered semi-recently and the delay was only a day or so. https://ameridroid.com/products/odroid-n2-home-assistant-blue-bundle-limited-edition?_pos=1&_sid=696fdc569&_ss=r The official Blue bundle with the custom case I believe is gone for good as of a year ago., the only differnce tho is the Blue Bundle had the special custom case... the rest is as available today. 1 hour ago, vbphil said: Would love to see a lessons learned or tips and tricks for Home Assistant with ISY. Are there any? Too broad of a topic. There's many needles in that der haystack 😄 One tip I can hand out tho: There is a Major release on the first Wednesday of every month. For example this month on the first Wednesday 2022.12.0 was released.... wait a week or 10 days until the minor releases slow down, then upgrade. For example, 8 days ago was the first Wednesday and were already up to 2022.12.6 wait til the bugs slow down. Also always scan/read the release notes before updating especially the "Breaking Changes" section. 1
vbPhil Posted December 16, 2022 Author Posted December 16, 2022 8 minutes ago, MrBill said: Why aren't they available now? I could swear I saw that somewhere, but it must have been something else I was looking at. That's good, don't have to wait that long then.
shbatm Posted December 17, 2022 Posted December 17, 2022 (edited) On 12/16/2022 at 2:32 PM, vbphil said: Would love to see a lessons learned or tips and tricks for Home Assistant with ISY. Are there any? As @MrBill said, that's a broad range, best course is to ask when you run into problems. That being said, some frequent topics: - Use HTTP not HTTPS to connect ISY to HA, unless you have a good reason (e.g. not a local, trusted network). It will be faster to respond and there are some ongoing Cypher issues we're working through with the newest version of python used by HA. - Make sure you have created at least (1) program, (1) state variable, and (1) integer variable on the ISY console. The lazy developer has not fixed the errors caused by not having these defined. - Use Insteon Scenes defined on the ISY where possible to control multiple devices. Using Scenes and Groups in HA will fire a single command for each device on the ISY which can cause changes to be delayed or commands dropped. Using an ISY scene and turning that on from HA fires a single command to the Insteon network. - You can use 'isy994_control' events in HA to pick up button/switch pushes from Insteon devices and control automations on the HA side. Eventually this will be migrated to HA's Device Actions that you'll see for other HA integrations, but it hasn't been changed yet. This allows you to separate a light being turned on from HA/Alexa/Google and someone physically controlling the switch. Comes in handy for things like using Keypadlincs to control Zigbee/WiFi lights for example. - You must reload the Home Assistant ISY994 Integration after you make changes in the ISY Admin Console, such as adding nodes and creating or renaming programs or variables. EDIT: Updated for PyISY 3.0.10 changes. Edited January 2, 2023 by shbatm 1 1 1
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