I’ve been a Roomie user since the beginning, and am currently using v6. It’s hands down the easiest to use and most powerful home automation remote app there is. I have about 50 Insteon on/off and dimmer switches along with 30 or so Zwave devices connected to my Universal Devices ISY-994izw controller, and although Roomie has always discovered the ISY manifest and populated the devices into the app, there are issues. It lists the entire ISY manifest of devices in the same room/menu from the bottom bar without allowing each device to be manually assigned to a room in Roomie. The Zwave devices have never worked, they appear in the ISY manifest in Roomie but are unresponsive, this has always been the case for me.
So I recently built a HomeBridge raspberry pi, installed the ISY plugin on it, and organized all of the devices discovered into their appropriate rooms in the HomeKit “Home” app. After re-syncing HomeKit in Roomie, all of the Insteon switches show up in Roomie as HomeKit devices, and they are filtered correctly by room, as desired. BUT… Roomie thinks all on/off switches are “Switches” (the plug icon in bottom bar) and all dimmer switches are “Lights” (the light bulb icon in the bottom bar), despite my having labeled them all lights in HomeKit.
I understand your position on HomeBridge, but for those of us trying to use Roomie as THE one app to rule them all, HomeBridge a beautiful piece of opensourceware that facilitates consolidated control of both HomeKit and ISY controlled devices in a more desirable way than just discovering the ISY natively in Roomie. (PS - HomeBridge doesn’t support Zwave either, I’m replacing all Zwave with Insteon this week).
Is there a way to consolidate the on/off ‘switches’ and dimmer ‘lights’ all into a single bulb or plug icon/menu in roomie? HomeBridge/HomeKit sync is better than native ISY in Roomie as is, but it would be perfect if all smart home devices for each room would show up in the same bottom bar menu so I don’t have to poke around to find the switch I’m looking for.
Thanks!