Harmony and Insteon Plug-in

[dhogan]

Hey Mark,

Wanted to see if you had a better way to do this.

What I'm trying to accomplish: My Harmony remote controls A,B,C,D keypad buttons, and adjusts the scene using the groups I created in Homeseer. This works fine when manually pushing keypad.

What happens: Harmony remote turns the keypad button on, but does not turn the group on. I know I could create a bunch of custom events with processacks but wanted to see if there was a cleaner way to do this.

thoughts?

[mnsandler]

have you tried creating a group that uses the keypad button as the controller. this should link the btn to the group

[dhogan]

This is how I've had it set up

[mnsandler]

if you control button a from the hs ui, does everything work as expected?

[dhogan]

Yup, its slow to turn the group on but worked

[mnsandler]

so what is the connection between the harmony remote and homeseer? i need to understand what type of transaction is sent to hs to control btn A

[joegr]

I think that the Harmony hub communicates directly with the Insteon hub to control the switches. I don't think that HS is involved, other than whatever your PI is able to see of the communication between the Insteon hub and the switch.

[mnsandler]

Ah, well the plugin doesn't pick up any responses or commands sent directly to the hub via the web. so this may not work at all.

the only thing i can suggest is to enable the Process ACKs option on the Advanced tab and test.

[dhogan]

Where is the advanced tab? I added ProcessACks in the Insteon config file, didn't know you can do it through the GUI.

Also do the groups in your plug-in define links in the devices, in other words if homeseer is down do they still work?

[mnsandler]

you might need to upgrade to latest beta to get the Advanced tab
groups do create links in the devices, so they work even when hs is down.

[dhogan]

Another followup to this, can Button A control the load on same keypad (6 button)? I'm not having luck doing this even when programming a group?

[mnsandler]

Another followup to this, can Button A control the load on same keypad (6 button)? I'm not having luck doing this even when programming a group?

you will need to do this manually. see the kpl manual for grouping the A button and the On/Load button.

[dhogan]

Thanks Mark for all the support, got it working the way I intended. I couldn't get Process ACKs to work correctly, so I ended up standing up habridge for a middle tier - Harmony talks to habridge and habridge talks to Homeseer so now I'm in good shape.

[mnsandler]

thanks for reporting back your solution