- #Insteon camera setup for android app install#
- #Insteon camera setup for android app upgrade#
- #Insteon camera setup for android app pro#
- #Insteon camera setup for android app password#
To enable the Raspberry Pi Wifi connection, go to Setup > Network and enter the info into SSID and Passphrase fields.
#Insteon camera setup for android app upgrade#
See: Īs always, any edit of a device in Homeseer will require that the Alexa skill be disabled, then reenabled, for Alexa to discover the new edit.ĭelete all the old Insteon dimmer/ group manes from Alexa before you discover new devices, so she won’t be confused as to which switch to switch!Ģ9Apr2022: backup, then upgrade to Homeseer beta to allow dimming with Alexa (“Alexa, turn on living room lights 40%”) Also, the base Alexa skill wants the wordy command which includes FLOOR+ROOM+DEVICE (“Alexa, turn on dimmer living room cove lights”), but you can shorten that with a voice command shortcut for each device in the Insteon plugin device page. This specific ALEXA skill lets you say “Alexa, turn on kitchen light”, rather than “Alexa, tell homeseer to turn on kitchen light”. Some people mentioned that, if your residence has a single “floor”, they are using the Floor field for DeviceType, and that’s what I did (Dimmer/ Outlet/ Switch, etc).ĪLSO NOTE! while you’re going to all the trouble of editing all these names, also come up with your desired voice shortcut for Alexa and enter that at this time too, to save more futzing later (see paragraph just below). NOTE! the Insteon Plugin > Device > Feature Name is the thing that shows up on the phone app. You can restart from the browser tools > linux menu.
It was easier to add a bunch in a block, as it seems that I needed to restart the homeseer server before the newly added links would control the switches. This will make it easier to find and edit the device in the plugin list after you figure out that “unknown2” is the hallway, for instance. I found the easiest thing to do was to add a bunch of ID’s, and name them “unknown1”, “unknown2”, “unknown3”, etc for device name, and “unknown” for device location. This took me a considerable time to figure out, because I didn’t know about the log viewer, which tells me exactly what the issue was.įrom the plugin menu, you can get a list of all your device ID’s from plugin > interface > display links option, which you will then need to manually enter and add, one by one.
#Insteon camera setup for android app install#
You will not be successful installing the Insteon plugin until you UPGRADE the new homeseer install to the latest version, which you can do from the browser menus. They ask you to see if you can log in to the insteon hub by browsing to the IP:port and entering the device user/pwd, all of which is found on a sticker on the underside of the hub. But you can still log into root w/ pwd homeseerpi,
#Insteon camera setup for android app password#
When you first go through the initialization of the homeseer server install from a web browser on your mac (URL: ), the process of making a username for login somehow changes the password of the ‘homeseer’ user on the machine from the default (hsthsths4) to something else, and I don’t know what it is. The Pi4 boots to one video port for NOOBS Debian build, and the other for the Homeseer linux image.
#Insteon camera setup for android app pro#
I got Samsung PRO Endurance cards, which come with an SD-to-microSD adapter. You need 32Gbyte microSD cards for Homeseer install, but 64Gbyte cards are cheaper and fast to get, and $14 or so each.
I kept notes of things I learned, which might be of use to others.
By Wednesday night, I was turning lights on and off with the app, and by dinnertime Thursday, I was back to where I was prior to the apocalypse ("Alexa, turn on kitchen lights"). Despite that, Homeseers tutorial got me up and running pretty easily. I'm Pi-fascile, but far from an expert, I have to have google close by with everything I try on Linux. 20+ dimmers and a few other Insteon devices in the house, started migration to Homeseer last Wednesday based on comments I'd seen in these posts.
0 kommentar(er)
