Insteon is out of business

[aaiyar]

@Donald

it might be worth a day of a Hubitat developer’s time to build the code into the system

When Hubitat added support for Iris V1 devices, they could do so because Iris (Lowes) published specifications for the V1 zigbee protocol with sample code.

When Hubitat added support for other LAN integrations (like YeeLights or LIFX lights), or cloud integrations (like ecobee), it was because an official API was available; the latter being important so Hubitat users don't end up relying on something that is possible ephemeral.

None of that is true in this instance. There are differences in the two Insteon bridges (2242 vs 2245), and the PLM. And for some of this the only guide available is reverse engineered code. So it would involve more than a day of a developer's time.

A possible indication of the magnitude of the effort involved arises from the Hubitat team's decision not to prioritize developing an Insteon PLM integration even when Insteon was in rosier times, as indicated in the linked post:

The Fate of true Insteon PLM support from an already great product

We have looked closely at what it would take to do this. It would entail a substantial effort. We are not seeing enough demand to warrant doing this integration at this time, with only a handful of people asking about it. We certainly understand how someone like you would benefit from it, and we agree that the Insteon product has its virtues. So this is not at the top of our priority list for now.