A few enhancement suggestions for the iOS and mac apps

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Fri Jul 17, 2015 4:42 pm
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A few enhancement suggestions for the iOS and mac apps

On Indigo on the mac I'd love to see a replace device a with device b function. Whenever an Insteon device such as a LampLinc fails (which seems to happen all too often to me) I would be able to plug a new LampLinc in and tell Indigo that this device is replacing the old device without having to manually add the new device to all the action groups etc. that the old device is in and remove the old device too.

On the iOS app

1 - Make the app HomeKit aware so it can control other Homekit devices
2 - Add a home page or summary page or whatever you would call it where I can add action groups or devices that I access frequently
3 - Widgets please! Let me access frequently used actions from the Today pulldown

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Fri Jul 17, 2015 4:50 pm
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Re: A few enhancement suggestions for the iOS and mac apps

Re replacing devices, you can already do this with Zwave, but I don't use Insteon so don't know if it's different - in Zwave once you have included the new device, just edit the old one and pick the new device from the list as though it were a new device.

For 2, would a control page not do this?


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Fri Jul 17, 2015 5:24 pm
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Re: A few enhancement suggestions for the iOS and mac apps

garty wrote:
On Indigo on the mac I'd love to see a replace device a with device b function. Whenever an Insteon device such as a LampLinc fails (which seems to happen all too often to me) I would be able to plug a new LampLinc in and tell Indigo that this device is replacing the old device without having to manually add the new device to all the action groups etc. that the old device is in and remove the old device too.


You can - check out the Replacing and Resyncing Devices section of the Insteon docs.

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Sat Jul 18, 2015 1:24 am
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Re: A few enhancement suggestions for the iOS and mac apps

Also at the moment apple's restrictions stop Indigo from being able to integrate with HomeKit. :(


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Sat Jul 18, 2015 1:40 am
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Re: A few enhancement suggestions for the iOS and mac apps

Jay, there's a typo in the third paragraph in that section.

The highlighted "Define Insteon Define" text is wrong.


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