I'm in the process of replacing HomeSeer Rpi/Insteon with Home Assistant / Node Red /Rpi /Shelly. I've got HA to recognise the Insteon 2423U PLM as an entity but not sure where to begin to get my Insteon Devices into entities for HA/Node Red. I've read it's possible and searched for quite some time…

Solved!!! [image] Need some help getting my Insteon devices as entities in Home Assistant /... I’m in the process of replacing HomeSeer Rpi/Insteon with Home Assistant / Node Red /Rpi /Shelly. I’ve got HA to recognise the Insteon 2423U PLM as an entity but not sure where to begin to get…

Ok i was wondering about that but since I’m just getting started i was hoping there’s someone out there whose already gone down this road. I’ll post there but also hope someone steps in. I’ve never been a coder so I struggle with scripting and CLI so I’m hoping to avoid it. Thanks.

If you were using node-red natively, rather than the HA plugin then we would be more likely to be able to help.

Thanks Colin. I'm only just learning HA and Node Red were separate platforms. With the explosive uptake to HA and the number of HA node red instructional videos being introduced, I think you'll see a lot of HA posts. I didn't know about Node Red until I started moving over to HA. I posted on the HA…

I think you'll see a lot of HA posts Note that node-red can do everything that HA can do plus more. HA is more like a convoluted state machine. Many people on this forum do their home automation/dashboards directly in node-red. There are nodes available for most devices, not much different from …

Thanks for this. Node red was a great way for me to finally get started on HA. I’ve had about 40 years of creating and living with automation scenarios and have had to learn how to reconstruct them in a new language 3 or 4 times now. I even did it commercially as a side gig for a while. I looked at …

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dceejay 20 July 2022 06:00 2

Probably best asked on the HA forum as not too many HA users here

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Need some help getting my Insteon devices as entities in Home Assistant / Node Red Rpi

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