Smart home company Insteon has turned off its cloud servers, as first reported by Stacey on IoT, and device maker iHome has also shut down its servers, confirming to The Verge that its iHome cloud ...

Irvine, Calif. — Smarthome is offering the industry’s first home-automation equipment built around the company’s Insteon no-new-wires mesh-network technology, which combines powerline and ...

In today’s “predictable things that happened before and definitely will happen again”, Insteon, a smart home company boasting the Insteon ecosystem of devices built around their p… ...

Insteon says HomeKit requires devices to have names that are different from the one that the Insteon hub uses. This is confusing because you see the Insteon name in the app, but must use the ...

If you have any Insteon smart home devices, you might have noticed they suddenly stopped working in April.Since then, we've learned the company went out of business, suddenly shutting everything ...

Insteon's HomeKit Hub shows potential, but needs work Launched this summer, the Insteon Hub Pro was one of the first HomeKit-compatible devices to hit the market.

Even without the Insteon servers and app, Insteon's protocol has been reverse-engineered for a while now, so it's possible to control the devices locally without the app.

Like the RF-only Z-Wave technology, each Insteon device is both a transmitter and a receiver, and the resulting network forms a mesh. Unlike Z-Wave, however, Insteon doesn’t rely on a routing table.

Irvine, Calif. — Home-automation supplier Insteon will sell select products through Microsoft stores for the first time as part of a collaboration that includes Insteon’s first control apps for ...

This is all great news for owners of Insteon devices, which include smart switches, plugs, and other lighting products.

In April, Insteon made news when it abruptly shut down its cloud servers without telling customers, bricking their smart home devices in the process. Days later, Insteon explained that supply ...

The <b>Insteon Starter Kit</b> is cheaper than the Insteon Hub on its own, and will set the foundation for a system that can include a variety of sensors and devices. Unlike some other options ...