I bought a White Series dimmer to test. It’s installed and basically working, offering an incredibly rich feature set. Also, its style is quite appealing to me.
However, dimming via press-and-hold on the paddle feels super sluggish.
I understand why some delay is needed – to distinguish a quick paddle-tap from paddle-press-and-hold. But the current delay feels disconcerting enough to stop me from installing more White Series dimmers.
Can an option be added to reduce that particular delay? I estimate that my paddle-taps are well under 100 ms. It would be fine to keep the default as-is; just give us options to set the delay to shorter values. [Edit: shorter or longer values, according to preference!]
Several reviewers have noted this delay as a drawback of the White Series dimmer. For example, see here, https://www.matteralpha.com/review/inovelli-white-series-smart-dimmer-review “My only qualms performance-wise with the Inovelli White Series Dimmer is that I find on-device dimming controls to be a little slow to take effect. Although pressing the rocker to toggle the connected lights on and off is instant—minus the fade-out effect—pressing and holding the paddle to adjust brightness has a short pause before it begins which makes me question whether or not it recognized the action at first.” [emphasis added]
PS: My platform is Apple Home[Kit]. Border router is a HomePod Mini. I second the request that “Button 1” “Button 2” and “Button 3” be given more descriptive names, for example, “Paddle up” “Paddle down” and “Button”.
I would like this too, but for a different reason -
I live with my older in-laws, who just don’t “get” the dimmer function. They were constantly pressing for a little too long trying to switch the lights on or off, and it would go to dim mode instead. I had to switch most of the lights in my house to on/off mode so that they could use them.
If I could INCREASE the delay to register as a paddle press, I could use dimmer mode again while keeping them happy.
In particular, go to the local configuration table at the end and read parameter 13. It involves a lot of button presses, and can get monotonous if you have a lot of switches, but I’ve switched mine to 300 ms and I think it is more responsive. What also helped even more is I changed the minimum brightness to the first level where you can see light. The lights feel like they turn on faster (the second one doesn’t help turning off speed though).
I’m not sure this is quite the same thing. The setting you are describing is to do with the maximum delay between button presses in a multi-tap scenario that are still recognized as a single operation.
The delay being requested is how long the button needs to be held down for it to be recognized as a dimming operation instead of a tap.