Kentinada Posted January 13, 2023 Posted January 13, 2023 Sorry if this has been asked or if there is already a thread, please just point me. I have an ISY994i with Z-wave card. Have used ISY and INSTEON for years. Is EISY now the future? Should I migrate from ISY to EISY? Was looking at Home Assistant to integrate with Apple HomeKit and my ISY but Home AssistaNt really needs a Raspberry Pi from the looks of it. I may be getting in over my head here but is there a white paper, to use an old term, on all this automation stuff and how to integrate? Thanks!
lilyoyo1 Posted January 13, 2023 Posted January 13, 2023 (edited) 10 minutes ago, Kentinada said: Sorry if this has been asked or if there is already a thread, please just point me. I have an ISY994i with Z-wave card. Have used ISY and INSTEON for years. Is EISY now the future? Should I migrate from ISY to EISY? Was looking at Home Assistant to integrate with Apple HomeKit and my ISY but Home AssistaNt really needs a Raspberry Pi from the looks of it. I may be getting in over my head here but is there a white paper, to use an old term, on all this automation stuff and how to integrate? Thanks! Its not hard to find! The very first post on this thread above yours answers your questions Edited January 13, 2023 by lilyoyo1
DennisC Posted January 13, 2023 Posted January 13, 2023 42 minutes ago, Kentinada said: Sorry if this has been asked or if there is already a thread, please just point me. I have an ISY994i with Z-wave card. Have used ISY and INSTEON for years. Is EISY now the future? Should I migrate from ISY to EISY? Was looking at Home Assistant to integrate with Apple HomeKit and my ISY but Home AssistaNt really needs a Raspberry Pi from the looks of it. I may be getting in over my head here but is there a white paper, to use an old term, on all this automation stuff and how to integrate? Thanks! You can start here to find more: 1
Kentinada Posted January 13, 2023 Author Posted January 13, 2023 Thanks. Sorry for the newbie question to this forum. Should have read the 1st posting first. My bad. After reading that post, a couple questions popped to my head: If my ISY994i is doing fine and I don't use Z-Wave much (i have 500 card installed), then is it safe to say I should just stay on this platform until it dies because the benefits of moving would be minimal? If I did migrate to an EISY, I assume the zmatter card required for Z-wave devices is not the same as the 500 card I have in my ISY and would need to add it for Z-wave functionality - correct? I looked but couldn't find any info on how EISY, Home Assistant, and Apple HomeKit can all be tied together. Maybe I missed it? Thanks.
lilyoyo1 Posted January 13, 2023 Posted January 13, 2023 28 minutes ago, Kentinada said: If my ISY994i is doing fine and I don't use Z-Wave much (i have 500 card installed), then is it safe to say I should just stay on this platform until it dies because the benefits of moving would be minimal? Only you can decide this. If your happy doing what you are doing you can stay where you are. Upgrade when you're ready to try new technologies that the eisy supports 32 minutes ago, Kentinada said: I looked but couldn't find any info on how EISY, Home Assistant, and Apple HomeKit can all be tied together. Maybe I missed it? I googled "how to use home assistant with ISY" and came across these instructions. UDI does not support homekit directly. You could use home assistant to make that happen. In regards to running home assistant on the eisy, that is possible but its something you would need to know how to do so that you do not mess up your eisy. I would recommend using home assistant's yellow box instead. 1
Kentinada Posted January 13, 2023 Author Posted January 13, 2023 @lilyoyo1 Thank you so much for your always helpful responses. Much appreciated!
carealtor Posted January 13, 2023 Posted January 13, 2023 Just another data point for you... It's pretty simple to run Home Assistant on a virtual machine (I use VirtualBox) if you already have a PC running 24/7 or a spare laying around. You don't have to buy a RPi or Yellow.
MrBill Posted January 13, 2023 Posted January 13, 2023 Home Assistant with both the Universal-Devices integration and the Home Kit integration will allow you to add Insteon and other ISY devices to HomeKit. (note: although the name of the Home Assistant integration includes "ISY994" the integration works with Polisy and eisy, and will continue to work with all UD hardware. The naming convention including ISY994 with Home Assistant will likely be a problem for a long time to come, it will break everyone's existing installs if they suddenly change that.) 1
Kentinada Posted January 13, 2023 Author Posted January 13, 2023 51 minutes ago, carealtor said: Just another data point for you... It's pretty simple to run Home Assistant on a virtual machine (I use VirtualBox) if you already have a PC running 24/7 or a spare laying around. You don't have to buy a RPi or Yellow. I have an iMac running all the time. Would that work too?
brians Posted January 13, 2023 Posted January 13, 2023 EISY is definitely the future if you are coming from ISY/Polisy, and have Insteon devices and node servers which rely on, or even if you have no Insteon and ZWave only - and don't want to redo everything in a new system ie. Home Assistant.
carealtor Posted January 13, 2023 Posted January 13, 2023 1 hour ago, Kentinada said: I have an iMac running all the time. Would that work too? I believe so, but I'm not an Apple guy, so I can't really comment.
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