Searching for help just like everyone else

[Jamaicaman]

 Hello, Just joined the group trying to help and learn what we can all do with our now crippled Insteon items. I personally have over 20 items, switches, modules, cameras, and water detectors.  Trying hard not to spit tacks and get angry! Seems so wrong on may levels.  Thanks for listening to another person complain! Searching for a solution....

[nhoe...@sinet.ca]

The good news is that at least on the Insteon Hub 2, scenes and schedules continue to function.  It is possible to manually link and unlink devices from the Insteon Hub the same way you can link individual Insteon devices.  Insteon Terminal allows you to locally interrogate and manipulate Insteon hubs, PLMs, and devices.   There are home automation packages that talk to the Insteon hubs and PLMs, such as Home Assistant,  HomeSeer,  and OpenHAB which will support existing Insteon devices and ease the transition to replacement products.  There is a growing amount of information on https://www.reddit.com/r/insteon/.  

I had tested OpenHAB2 support of Insteon devices via the Insteon Hub 2 a few years ago but got stuck trying to implement some of the more advanced OpenHAB functions.  At the time, I found the basic Insteon app sufficiently functional for my needs.  I am in the process of installing OpenHAB3.  One of the open questions is removing existing Insteon Hub 2 schedules/scenes without doing a factory reset on the Hub and having to relink all my devices.  I have seen posts that this can be done using Insteon Terminal but without providing details.  One possibility is to back up the Insteon Hub 2 database with Insteon Terminal, reset the Insteon Hub 2, then restore the database.  

[Stephen Anderson]

I have HomeAssistant integrated with the pre2014-Hub. Recommend you move in that direction as it can integrate with many automation products and still control insteon hardware using the hub until we can move off of them.