I programmed a scene on button 3 for single press and another scene for button 3 for double press. This same scene was programmed on 6 switches. I went to turn on the lights with button 1 and it executed the single press scene for button 3. I double checked in Apple Home to confirm I hadn’t accidentally programmed the scene on the wrong button and I had not. I factory reset the switch and started over, which seemed to solve the issue.
The next day, I tried to turn a different light on with button 1 and it executed the scene for button 3 single press again. Once again, I checked Apple Home and confirmed I had programmed the scene correctly to button 3.
Any thoughts as to why button 3’s scenes are migrating to button 1 randomly? I need to check and see if the scene even works correctly with button 3, but maybe Apple Home is showing the button #’s incorrectly?
I’m also having issues with automations for the notification LED’s, but I’ll save that for a different/later discussion.
Apple assigns buttons randomly.
How do you confirm what button is what?
Stay in the page where all buttons are visible. Operate the switch and watch your phone. It will highlight what you pressed. That button is assigned to that action. No way to change it. Apple is stupid.
Well that’s special. Guess I’ll have to do waste some time checking each switch to figure out how the buttons are assigned and then reprogram the automations. Fun stuff
How do you know this? Doesn’t seem documented on Setting Up Multi-Tap Scene Control • Apple Home | Inovelli Help Center (but does seem to be true: one switch I have “Button 1” is the side button, but on the other switch that’s “Button 2” which is what brought me searching the forums).
Other question: what the heck are the two other buttons? Surely they’re not the paddle switches as those toggle the actual lights. But then there’s only one button on the switch!
Experimenting with my 15 switches that all got mapped differently. Little bit of tinkering got me to my conclusion.
Like Rohan said they are for the paddles. If the switch is being used in smart bulb mode then all parts of the switch are pretty much running on automations.
You can also add presets. Maybe you don’t want the light on at 100%. Maybe at night you only want to turn it on to any% without having to turn it on and then dim it down. Double press up or town and there you have it.