[center]This is for the Insteon KeypadLinc 2486* Series Scene Controllers.[/center]
Anyone who’s attempted to setup a KeypadLinc device with Vera has found out that by default, Vera simply sees it as either a dimmer or on/off switch. I’ve managed to get Vera to reliably recognize the On/Off style KeypadLinc as exactly what it is. The dimmer style for now is only being recognized as On/Off combo as well for now, but I’m hoping this can be solved perhaps with the help of someone who reads this. Anyway, here’s what must be done to achieve this:
Set up the device as normal and allow it to get recognized as a Dimmer, On/Off switch, or GenericIO (I doesn’t matter).
Go in to configure the device, and click on the “Advanced” Tab.
Change the following fields to what I have listed:
Exit that window and click “Save” in the upper-right corner.
Vera should now take it’s time and eventually make 3 devices: A combo device, a scene controller, and an On/Off device.
As I mentioned, if you have a dimmer model it will still function as an On/Off (although it seems to reset the Insteon Server every time you hit on or off). Every attempt I’ve made to change it to a dimmer results in Vera changing it back to On/Off. If anyone has any support to offer in this area, like the configuration settings for a working Dimmer/Scene Controller combo, I’d greatly appreciate it.
Ya, haven’t seen anything like that for Insteon, but thanks for the link all the same. I may be entirely wrong, but it seems like it gets its 2 “other” devices from the “Capabilities” field. However, I’ve tried various alternative combinations of number, but all of them cause it to default back to seeing it as just a dimmer module. If anyone knows of a chart for what these numbers mean, that may help.
Yup, I’d found that. Seems Insteon uses an entirely different set of classes. For example, the controller right now is set to 2,15. Neither of those numbers even appear on the list. I guess MCV just hasn’t released much informations for Insteon still.
Thanks for your directions.
I have some of the 2486 dimmer models (2486DWH8) and could not have figured this out without your post.
As you correctly stated in your post, when using the dimmer models, my Vera kept restarting the Insteon service every time I would activate a scene by pushing a button on the dimmer Insteon controllers.
Using your instructions, and experimenting a little, I was able to get my dimmer scene controllers to work properly (i.e. Vera does not restart the Insteon service every time I push a button on the controller).
Also, one other strange thing that I fixed was the fact that on my 8 button scene controller, I would lose two buttons. Basically the top two buttons worked as a single on button, and the bottom two buttons worked as a single off button. Kind of hard to explain but anyone who has experienced this understands what I am talking about.
Here are the steps I used to get my controllers working properly:
mwbehr’s Original Directions
Set up the device as normal and allow it to get recognized as a Dimmer, On/Off switch, or GenericIO (it doesn’t matter).
Go in to configure the device, and click on the “Advanced” Tab.
Change the following fields to what I have listed:
Exit that window and click “Save” in the upper-right corner.
Vera should now take it’s time and eventually make 3 devices: A combo device, a scene controller, and an On/Off device.
Additional Steps to get Dimmer Scene Controllers (2486DWH8) to work:
Refresh your browser window and for each of the three devices listed in step 5,
go in to configure the device, then click settings, and then change “automatically configure” to no.
Exit that window and click “Save” in the upper-right corner.
I noticed that it was important not to push any controller buttons, or play around with the controller between steps 5 and 6. If I did this, I lost 2 of my buttons because the controller was now behaving like a 6 button controller.
Hope these steps help someone just like mwbehr’s steps helped me.