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This only works if your hub already completed an initial setup:

> If you are a spurned Insteon user seeking to move your hardware to some other system, whatever you do, don't factory-reset your Insteon Hub. Apparently, contacting Insteon's servers is a key step of the initial setup, so this may now fail.

Seems like you're fine until your hub dies, but you'll have to switch everything once it does.

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Not true. I don't have and have never owned an Insteon hub. I have no reliance on anything from Insteon in the sky. I have an ISY-994i which controls all of my Insteon gear.

My switches don't communicate with the outside world and as long as I have a functional PLM connected to the ISY, I'll be able to control them. There are probably ways to do that without a PLM too.

I will likely move to something else soonish though, likely Lutron. But I want to be clear that for those who have Insteon and have never relied on the Insteon hub, they can keep chugging along for now.

Insteon devices have switches on them allowing you to link them without a hub.

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