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+====== Insteon Controllers ======
+Insteon devices tend to fall into two categories: controllers and responders. Controllers are devices that send Insteon commands to other Insteon devices. The ControlLinc is a device which has 5 button pairs (along with all on/off and dim/brighten). You can set these buttons to perform many different actions.
+Responders are Insteon devices that respond to commands. So, an ApplianceLinc or LampLinc will respond to commands sent to them: ON/OFF, Status Requests (to get state if Indigo gets out of sync somehow), and, in the case of the LampLinc, DIM/BRIGHTEN.
+Many Insteon devices are both controllers and responders: KeypadLincs (which have 6 or 8 buttons), SwitchLincs, ToggleLincs, etc. They can be set up to send commands (via Links) and they can respond to commands from other devices.
+Once you have your device defined, you'll probably want to do one of these things:
+  * [[scenes|Make a button to turn on/off a light]] - simple version without using Insteon Links - compatible with X10 devices as well
+  * [[inst_button_basics|Make a button to control an Insteon lighting scene]] - slightly more involved version for INSTEON only scenes, but performs better