How to intercept Insteon Switch Events

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I’m trying to intercept all switch activities so I can run some custom LUUP code. I tried using scenes, but it looks like only CHANGE in state could be triggered; I’m looking to intercept ALL activity. All my switches are Insteon based using Altsteon.

Any suggestion or point in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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Currently Vera doesn’t distinguish between:

  • light being turned on manually (at the switch)
  • light being turned on via a scene or direct command

Insteon does, but I am not sure how this is implemented in Altsteon or how it would be communicated to Vera and the plugins. I will look into it. fba would know more.

This is another advantage I have found in Insteon vs Z-Wave.

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Was any progress every made on this?

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If you augment the code in I_InsteonPlm.xml, I believe all events go through the function “parse_string”
From there, you could catch anything.

If you only want to catch specific actions from certain devices, you could modify the individual calls, such as:

[ul][li]insteonProcessRemotelinc[/li]
[li]insteonDimmerKplProcess[/li]
[li]insteonFanlincProcess[/li]
[li]insteonDimmerProcess[/li]
[li]insteonRelayKplProcess[/li]
[li]insteonRelayProcess[/li]
[li]insteonProcessIRlinc[/li]
[li]insteonEzFloraProcess[/li]
[li]insteonThermostatProcess[/li]
[li]insteonSynchrolincProcess[/li]
[li]insteonIoLincProcess[/li]
[li]insteonIMeterProcess[/li]
[li]insteonLockProcess[/li]
[li]insteonProcessGarageHawkGarage[/li]
[li]insteonProcessGarageHawkRemote[/li]
[li]insteonLeakProcess[/li]
[li]insteonTriggerProcess[/li][/ul]

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I really appreciate the details… but I think I found a much simpler answer :slight_smile: Insteon groups. I grouped the lamplinc and the switchlinc together and now, changes to one get reflected on both - including any actions taken from the Vera :slight_smile:

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Ooops. posted in the wrong thread.