Inovelli (Red) Child Driver Setup

[pbennett45]

Hey All,

Got my Inovelli Reds setup... having a little trouble with the child switches for notifications. I'm hoping I didn't just do this in the wrong order and need to reinstall the switches in Hubitat...

I installed the dimmer, got it configured how I wanted it and started using it in RMs

I tried to enable one or two notifications... didn't see them anywhere, couldn't use them

Realized via a couple other threads it needed the child drivers, but didn't find a good walk through so I thought it must be straight forward.... so AFTER doing that, I installed the child switch drivers from github. I was expecting to see the child switches for the ones I setup notifications just pop up in my device list but they didn't. I tried changing the settings and saving (both save preferences and save device) that didn't work. I tried adding a new notification, didn't work. I tried adding a notification on another inovelli red switch (that one didn't have notifications enables already before the driver was installed). Still no lock...

Sure I'm just doing something wrong... Help appreciated oh how to install those child devices

Thanks

[pbennett45]

Scratch that.. I'm an idiot....

For those reading this.. don't accidentally install "switch-level-child-device"... you need "switch-child-device"... that did the trick.... install that, configure notifications, save parameters, save device.... that worked for me

[dcoffing]

I am not seeing any child device showing up after paring my Inovelli Red Dimmer. I added the latest driver for the dimmer and the best I can tell I am not to load the child drivers because the parent will use the built-in one from Hubitat. Anyway I don't see any virtual child devices being created to indicate multi-tap devices I can use in a simple lighting rule. What am I missing or not doing?

The Inovelli documentation has nothing about setting parameters on the Child Devices

I don't know what to enter here to enable a child device

[Evilborg]

Don't install that driver... it uses the generic component device instead that HE offers.

[dcoffing]

Sorry for my lack of clarity, I only installed the latest Inovelli parent driver for the red series dimmer not the child driver. However I am only seeing the parent in my device list.

I was looking for a child device based on multi-taps of the paddle so that I could use it in a rule. I was sadly mistaken with the power of this new Inovelli red series switches. Thanks to @bertabcd1234 he got me the solution on the Inovelli forum.

@**Help understanding the benefit of Child devices and how to create in Hubitat**

@@BertABCD1234

If you’re talking about multi-taps, you don’t need anything special for those (besides a driver that supports them; Inovelli’s will as-is, and Hubitat has built-in drivers for some that will give you limited taps as well, though not for the current dimmers). What happens with muli-taps (Z-Wave Central Scenes) is that Hubitat will interpret them as button events. With Inovelli’s driver, 1-5 taps up will give you “button 1 pushed” through “button 5” pushed. Similarly, 1-5 taps down will give you “button 1 held” through “button 5” held (no, that doesn’t really make sense, but I can understand why they did it this way; neither ST nor Hubitat has a “quintuple-tappable button capability” that would solve the awkwardness of any possible here, though I prefer other approaches). You can use any automation on the Hubitat side to respond to that. The Button Controller app in Hubitat firmware 2.2.0+ is an easily accessible choice, though the community Advanced Button Controller is also popular. All these events happen on the parent device and are not related to any child devices.

Thank you for the response, I think I understand better. I was thinking I was needing a virtual child switch that was virtually switched after a multi-tap that could be used in a rule. So if I understand it now I can use the Inovelli as-is since it is acting as if it is a button device being pushed based on taps with the mapping on Inovelli’s website.

• Tap UP 1x = Button 1 PUSHED
• Tap DOWN 1x = Button 1 HELD
• Tap UP 2x = Button 2 PUSHED
• Tap DOWN 2x = Button 2 HELD
• Tap UP 3x = Button 3 PUSHED
• Tap DOWN 3x = Button 3 HELD
• Tap UP 4x = Button 4 PUSHED
• Tap DOWN 4x = Button 4 HELD
• Tap UP 5x = Button 5 PUSHED
• Tap DOWN 5x = Button 5 HELD
• Hold UP 3 Seconds = Button 6 PUSHED
• Hold DOWN 3 Seconds = Button 6 HELD
• Tap the Config/Favorite Button 1x = Button 7 PUSHED taps