Jumping on to agree: it is absolutely untrue that the devices are bricked. The hub and app are just pretty useless right now. In fact, with Insteon, you can ev

Jumping on to agree: it is absolutely untrue that the devices are bricked. The hub and app are just pretty useless right now. In fact, with Insteon, you can even set up and link devices manually without any hub at all, using the "set" buttons on the devices. The scenes and links and triggers are all stored locally on each device, iirc.