Inovelli White Smart Dimmer (Matter/Thread)

I haven't seen any real formal reviews about Inovelli's White Dimmer (Matter/Thread; Inovelli White Series 2-1 Smart Switch • Works With HomeKit • Matter) and Hubitat. I know the Blue and Red versions are extremely popular within the community, but I wanted to give it a try. I've got a rarely used guest room as the perfect place to test it out along with three Philips Hue Bulbs connected to a Hue Bridge Pro. I'm using the White Dimmer in Smart Bulb Mode for the test as I've been looking for a switch that has the ability. I use Lutron everyone else in the house except in places where I want Hue Bulbs. I wanted to try to the White version as I'm really trying to utilize Matter where I can. This is an Apple Home, Google Home, and Hubitat household with a preference for direct connections when possible.

Thanks to @jvm33 as they created a custom driver (Hubitat-matterTools/Inovelli at main · jvmahon/Hubitat-matterTools · GitHub) that surfaces most of the options of the White Dimmer. This helps to eliminate some of the tapping sequences that someone would need to do if it was only connected to Apple Home/Google Home/Alexa.

Overall verdict is that it works exactly how I want it and fits a perfect niche for the smart home I'm designing at home. Is it as fully featured as the Red or Blue? No, but I think that is perfectly okay. It does the basics really well for my needs (Smart Bulb Mode, Notification LED Bar, Matter).

If you have any questions, please let me know as I'll answer them the best that I can.

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Maybe i missed it, but what are you using as your Thread gateway?

Great question. I used Apple Home to bring the dimmer into Hubitat. My thread network contains two Apple TVs, 3 Google Nest WiFi Pros, and 3 Google Nest Hub Maxes all merged into a single network. The closest boarder router is probably two or so rooms over (30ish feet) and has to go through three walls to reach the switch.

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