like with other insteon controllers, you have a choice of either linking other insteon devices directly to the 2411R or by creating trigger actions in indigo to control the other devices. this is a tradeoff with which most indigo users are quite familiar, and the similar to that faced with any insteon controller.
one issue unique to the 2411R however (at least currently) is that you can't edit links from indigo (why not!?). this is a limitation that will probably steer many towards using indigo to manage the commands attached to different buttons via trigger actions. on the other hand, by adding "add to scene" and "remove to scene" buttons on the remote, smarthome has taken a lot of the pain out of editing links (especially compared to the original model), so you can do it "the old fashioned way" -- i.e. by walking to the responders and pushing and holding their buttons.
one major problem/question:
i linked the scenes on the credit card remote to the powerlinc. i have verified that indigo sees (logs) every remote button when i push it. then i manually linked lamp module L to button 1 (aka "scene A"). so now using the remote, i can brighten/dim/turnon/turnoff the lamp AND indigo sees the commands and logs them. so far so good.
next, i tell indigo to re-sync links. my understanding is that indigo should now know that when it receives a group command from the 2411R corresponding to button 1, that it should update the state of lamp L (at least this is how insteon/indigo work for keypadlincs, remotelincs, etc.). instead, what i see is that indigo
does not update the state of lamp L when it is changed from the remote. is this a bug/problem with indigo? or is indigo not only unable to edit irlinc links, but also completely blind to any links that are setup manually, as well?
other symptoms: after syncing links, if i then look at the links for the irlink, i don't see any. if i look at the logs from when i told it to resync, i see:
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PowerLinc Linking - initializing remote device "0 IR Sensor" (address 0F.5A.F9, firmware version 4.0)
PowerLinc Linking - initialize complete
PowerLinc Linking - syncing remote device "0 IR Sensor" (address 0F.5A.F9, firmware version 4.0)
PowerLinc Linking - syncing of this device type not possible remotely (skipping)
PowerLinc Linking - sync complete
PowerLinc Linking - device "0 IR Sensor" links updated
... so the "syncing of this device type not possible" leads me to believe that this is a known issue. if so, it seems like a significant limitation.