Problem is, using their components, you cannot "bypass" the hub with the type of topology they designed, even though you have an app on your phone, she no work that way captain. I did have all my timers set up and they are still working from the memory in the hub, but they cannot be altered any longer and individual lights cannot be turned on/off remotely. No Insteon server - no worky.
Some guy even drove by the Office in SoCal (Irvine, CA) and verified they all skedaddled off and shut down. I think there might be some hacky ways around it but my plan now is to go with another system and move on. A system that does not depend on the cloud of course.
They
worked fine a decade ago without this "cloud"/managed crap before so why are they set to depend on it.
It's sounds incredibly stupid to me.
I always thought of these sorts of things as a scam waiting to happen.
They can pack up, go and not give you control over the gear that you "brought" what you think you owned which ceases to function and your rights to use it effectively taken away.
If I can't set it up myself, it can't work inhouse and support a set of standards to work other equipment, provided with a means of with the recovery when it fails and for when they no longer exist then they can screw it and this is why I refuse to "buy"/pay for crap like this.
I wonder what would happen if they didn't use the word "cloud" to describe it but one more sensible like "locked down camera" or "non user managed solution".
Sounds to me like disgusting behaviour:
First investigated by IoT reporter Stacey Higginbotham, Insteon’s community forums appear to be down and a number of its high-profile executives have removed all reference to their Insteon employment from their LinkedIn profiles.
I wonder why or is it that they are afraid and want to run away?