I have installed insteon hub software as well as honeywell total connect comfort. I was wondering why the status indicators do not show real time status of the lights in comparison to the honeywell icon lights up immediately when the furnace is running and goes off when idle.
Am i missing something
After you physically toggle a switch you should see it update in the Home Remote after about 5 seconds. Whenever a change event is received from Insteon it’ll wait 5 seconds & then schedule a call to get the new state. I found that the Insteon change events don’t always include accurate device status so it was more reliable to have those events trigger a get status call. It is event-driven like the Honeywell TCC integration. The only difference is that for Honeywell it’ll use the event data directly. There isn’t that extra 5 second wait & need to fetch.
Many thx for your response Bill,
I am new to this and think it has a lot of potential.
Does this mean I would need to make some changes to my home remote software as it doesn’t seem to work ‘off the shelf’.
As i had stated earlier the honewell status works flawlessly.
It shouldn’t require any changes.
Are saying it’s not working at all?
No matter how many times you open the app, it will never show you the correct status?
If that’s the case, something is wrong. The Insteon event notification system isn’t perfect but I’d say a majority of the time they work. It’s just not going to be instantly like some of the other systems.
I’m having some inconsistencies…
if i turn off/on a light from the switch itself it seems to work fine (2477D), but using the keypad (2334-232) it doesn’t seem to respond.
also using the insteon app to turn on/off a light it doesn’t respond.
it responds if i use the back button and refresh the home remote app no problem but this is not a desired solution.
I’m going to re check my setup as per controllers/responders but I think all is good.
thx
I can confirm that my Insteon toggle 2466DW does not broadcast any events when changed from the Insteon app. Event notifications are only broadcast when changed from the switch itself. I don’t think the switch will broadcast events when changed from a keypad either. I do not own a keypad but I suspect that’s probably the case. To get it working for these 2 scenarios I’d have to implement periodic polling. Which I suppose I could do maybe every 40 or 50 seconds, something like that.
That would be a significant improvement.
In version 3.12.1 the app will periodically poll Insteon devices every 90 seconds.