I think if you have enough technical knowledge to wire Insteon devices into your house and set them up, you will find HomeSeer is not hard to deploy at all. I did it with no previous experience with HomeSeer.
I got it up and running on Friday, the day after Insteon shut everything down. In this setup, HomeSeer replaces the entire Insteon front end, app, and cloud integrations. Or you can buy a dedicated HomeSeer box that simply runs on your home network. HomeSeer is a program you can run on any computer that you just leave on 24/7. Last year, an outage in Insteon’s AWS cloud frustrated users for several days.Īctually, the Insteon Hub itself can be left in place, and can work with HomeSeer. Insteon does provide local control of its smart lights and nodes through hubs in the home, but there are plenty of cloud components to get the system to talk to Alexa or Google. However, this means thousands of Insteon users, who I know as a vocal and pretty satisfied bunch, will be left with gear that doesn’t work. And now, with the looming launch of the Matter smart home interoperability standard, Insteon’s core tech will be even further marginalized. However, the adoption of proprietary technologies such as Insteon didn’t pan out as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Zigbee prevailed.
At the time he expressed optimism that Insteon’s proprietary technology could become the underpinning of a big shift to smarter homes. Lilleness is a former executive at Nokia who lives in Seattle and invested $7.3 million in the Smartlabs business before taking on his leadership role at the company. Multiple tries return the same message each time. has not been returned and a call to the listen phone number returns a message saying Verizon could not complete the call and asking me to check the number before trying again. An email to Smartlabs’ corporate office in Irvine, Calif. It also owns the web site where consumers can buy Insteon gear. Smartlabs is a combination of smart home brands that include Insteon and Nokia Smart Lighting, which Smartlabs purchased last year.
Matt Kowalec the president and COO lists his role at Smartlabs as ending in 2020 and Tom Carter, the CIO doesn’t list his role in the company at all. Dan Cregg, the chief research officer lists his role at Smartlabs as ending in 2022. Mike Nunes, the former CIO at Smartlabs lists his role at Insteon/Smartlabs ending in April 2022. However, Lilleness no longer lists Smartlabs/Smarthome/Insteon anywhere on his LinkedIn profile and other members of the Insteon management team have also appeared to decamp Smartlabs based on their LinkedIn profiles. I reached out to Rob Lilleness, the president and chairman of Smartlabs, the company that owns Insteon and have not yet heard back. So far, none of them have heard from the company, and Insteon’s Twitter account hasn’t been updated since June 2021. Is your Insteon smart home system down? I’m getting reports from dozens of Insteon users that as of Friday their smart home hubs have stopped working.
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