I can find all the info on how to enable / disable a node or parameter, but am stymied finding where something like on/off, dimmer, leading/trailing edge, etc is described in how it changes the behavior of the switch and why you should or shouldn’t set it.
E.g. I want to have the switch do on/off for single tap and dim for press and hold. But setting on/off or dimmer only does one or the other and setting one seems to disable the other. How do I get both at once? Please don’t tell me I have to set up something this basic via hub automation.
You did not say which switch you were referring to. But generally speaking when the switch is in the dimmer mode, a quick tap up will turn on the load and a quick tap down will turn off the load. Pressing and holding will dim up or down accordingly.
… and the “quick tap up” will turn the load on to the previous dimmer level (by default) or level can be configured. How to configure the options varies greatly depending on series (Red/Blue/White) and which hub you are using.
The on/off mode is intended for bulbs that don’t support dimming - and behave “unpleasantly” when fed partial power.
Parameters (and there are a lot of them) can be changed from a UI on the hub, and/or from button sequences on the switch. For the Red/Blue switches, the hub is usually the primary mechanism for most parameters (much easier that the buttons). For the White switches, Matter doesn’t (yet) have a nice way to most of the parameters (for the many features that aren’t in the Matter spec) - so most of them need to be set via the buttons.
So not sure what was wrong before but I just reset the switch and set dimmer mode and it worked as expected. It was my first switch and I was having a lot of confusion/uncertainty with the hold this until that turns to a color and blinks stuff. Partly because it cycles through green on its way to yellow (which wasn’t mentioned) and I have a bit of trouble distinguishing green from yellow so would release at the wrong time.
Here are my current settings mostly for max WAF. Red pilot light because I like to not blow my night vision.
Configured by:
Dimmer Mode (Dn+F*3)
Disable Audible Relay Click (Dn+F*8)
Local Configuration
2 Ramp On = 0
3 Ramp Off = 0
8 LED Color when off = Red
9 LED Color when on = Red
10 LED Intensity when on = 0
11 LED Intensity when off = 10 (default)
13 Switch Delay Time = 3 (minimum 300ms) (1 & 2 not allowed)
Harry Potter style pilot (light is on when pilot is out and vice versa) because it amuses me (the light moves between switch and bulb) and my young child and also gives me a clear indicator of what the switch thinks the bulb state is in.
I have 100% dumb LED bulbs at present. Thinking of replacing with smart bulbs for adaptive lighting if I can get wife onboard.
What’s the benefit of full sine wave vs ?? Other than AC power is ideally a nice clean sine wave so who wouldn’t want that and I suspect the work around for no neutral is to play with that so I guess it defaults to that to make no neutral installations much faster?
That’s the sort of thing I was expecting more documentation on (along with the leading/trailing bit) but not really finding.
It’s for bulb compatibility. Some non-dimmable bulbs prefer a perfect wave. Since this switch is a dimmer, even in the on/off mode, the wave was being clipped slightly, so this is a firmware enhancement to solve that issue.
Bulb compatibility, again. This time for dimmable bulbs. Dimmable bulbs prefer one or the other, so you have a choice.
Search here for “sine”, “leading” or “trailing” and you will find plenty of discussion.
