Inovelli Red S2 Dimmer Config Button Hold or Double Tap

[justin.rodko]

I have been looking for quite a while and haven't found this specific answer. I am using the community driver (LZW31) for three of my Inovelli dimmers. I see that "button 7" refers to the scene button but only for s single push.

How would I make rule machine recognize a hold or a double tap of this button? Simply using 'button 7' double tapped or held as my trigger does not work.

[bertabcd1234]

Inovelli's community driver? In any case, the config button does not support any scene/button events besides single taps. This is a device limitation, not a driver issue. Hold and release are not exposed as scene/button events, likely due to resource limitations on the 500-series Z-Wave chips they're using and already pushing the limits of. Additionally, a double-tap is reserved for switch functions (clearing notification parameter) as is a triple-tap (inclusion/exclusion mode), so those would not be good ideas to try but are not "natively" possible in any case.

The only option would be to use a rule or custom app to detect multiple successive single taps if you trust yourself (or whoever) to do those physical actions reliably. A better bet is just to rely on the mulit-tap features of the main buttons, but I'm assuming you're asking because you either ran out of those, don't want to remember (that's a lot of events!), or have a cool idea not easily do-able with them as-is. A neat idea I saw on the Inovelli forums was to use the config button as a sort of "alt" button where pressing it causes the "main" paddles to do different actions and pressing it again reverts them back to normal. I think they used the LED bar color (the "regular" color, not a notification) to track that status and presumably tracked its states in a rule or custom app that was also performing the actions.

[justin.rodko]

Thanks for this. The driver is not the default on on hubitat, but another that I found here and installed.

It is too bad the switch is limited and can't do what I want to do. Every single one of my home projects has to be simple and not interfere with the normal function of switches - otherwise I'll hear about it from my fiance lol. In this instance, I'd like to have something to remotely lock/unlock one of my doors. The Inovelli dimmer indicator LED will pulse purple if the door is unlocked, so I figured it would be handy to be able to remotely lock it when and where you notice it. I could make the single tap toggle the lock, however that's much more likely to be accidentally bumped than say a double tap or hold.

I wonder how I would write a rule to recognize this reliably. Like I said, function and use of everything I do has to be simple, easily memorized, and generally bullet proof. I'm still hearing about the time I accidentally left the garage door open over night!