Anyone using the new Inovelli White Series? I'm curious how they working out in your home. I'm familiar with the Blue and Red series, that's why I'm asking specifically about their Matter via Thread version. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!
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I just started installing these. Did you get more information?
Unfortunately, I did not find anything from this community. There is some stuff on Inovelli's forums. In searching through them, I found an advanced community driver (Hubitat-matterTools/Inovelli/VTM31SN at main · jvmahon/Hubitat-matterTools · GitHub) created by @jvm33 who might be able to shed a little bit more light on their performance.
I ended up going a slightly different direction, but would love to hear about your experiences as there are a few places I could utilize them.
I just started installing the white series switches and canopy modules, and he's definitely been a bit of a learning experience. The driver repository you linked also has another driver that is detailed to be both for the switch and the canopy fan, but the fan model I received did not match the fan model listed in the driver code.
I'm not a groovy writer so I had to use an LLM to troubleshoot the code, it ended up changing some end points and the model numbers in the code.
I've got them mostly working now though, by the response time from switch on to fan/light on is something to be desired. Basically, the driver code and support for matter/thread really isn't quite there yet.
A couple examples
Inovelli has their hardware designed to allow for matter binding, so that the switch and fan can directly connect, but Hubitat (and other hub solutions so I read) do not support this yet.
I'm also having an issue using a mirror app (as how that will I control the fan light from the switch?) to control the dimming function. If the switch is set to on/off mode, it can turn the light on or off no issue, but if it's set to dimming, it'll copy the switch dimming level, by it won't turn off properly. I suspect there's more driver code to fix.
BUT, if we look at things positively:
The fans and fan lights are controlled through the hub
Voice commands work (through a connected service)
I can include the fan status in pistons and fan state is now recorded.
I know if I had went with blue series it would've been more robust but my hope is matter code and development continue.
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Have you tried Switch Bindings ([RELEASE] Switch Bindings 2.0) instead of the Mirror app? That is usually my go to when I want switches and bulbs to match; though, you could be right about it being a coding issue.
As for everything else, I appreciate your experiences with them. My use case is just Hue bulbs on a Hue Bridge with the Inovelli Whites in SMB. I might need to get a couple to play with and see how they function.
I'll have to give the a try, thanks for the recommendation!
Your use case seems really straight forward and I feel confident it would work fine. You'd only be used the switch for emulated buttons after all and that works fine. I still have so much to do in regards to the colored LED display and the push button on the switch.
That's a driver I wrote. I am primarily a Home Assistant user but wrote the Hubitat driver as a bit of a favor to the guys at Inovelli. I love them on Home Assistant. They are easy to configure, support button tapping up to 5 buttons and the LED bar is controllable for alerts just as if it was a RGB bulb (so very easy to set, unlike other versions where the LED bar requires setting Z-wave parameters, or Zigbee attributes).
On Hubitat, however, not as favorable. The Hubitat platform's Matter support isn't quite there yet based on my experience writing the driver. As a result, there are some features, like button tap support, that I haven't implemented.
In short, they are a great product, but Hubitat doesn't offer great support. If you're a member of the Hubitat beta group, you can see one specific issue I raised in November that's been ignored and which has impeded adding button support, here: https://community.hubitat.com/t/2-4-x-matter-protocol-missing-report-needed-to-process-button-tap-events/146078/3
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This is being worked on. It's just proving difficult since the (SiLabs) library is not providing the expected outcome.
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