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Wed Mar 18, 2020 3:25 pm
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peszko
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I used to have a lot of problems with a large insteon only network. I got rid of a lot of older modules and replaced them with z-wave. I especially targeted wireless modules. After removing most of the wireless sensors and the keypadlinks (those were really troublsome) my network is very solid. What I would target first is insteon sensors with triggers that end up generating a lot of insteon traffic. I would also try to avoid multiple direct commands to modules, but rather use as few as possible scene commands. I would also turn off scene cleanup. This makes insteon scenes less reliable, but greatly increases speed. I find two sucessive insteon scene commands are a lot faster then single one with the clean up (with multiple devices in the scene)
In my situation, I have left mostly second generation insteon light switches, that generally just receive commands. At this point, I'll probably leave them be until they fail and need replacement.
Insteon works well for small setups, but at certain point degrades fairly fast (inherent to the protocol). If you can, I'd look in to adding z-wave to your network and change your sensors to z-wave (especially the wireless ones)