Decided to tackle install today and ran into 100 issues. I purchased blue canopy module, blue zigbee 2in1 switch and neutral bypass. Wired everything up and switch comes on no issues and adds to HA right away meanwhile canopy module zero power and no led on. I flip the breaker, remove the bypass. Now the canopy module comes on and the switch goes on for 1 second and then out no led bar not able to factory reset nothing. What did I screw up here that I can’t get power to both
Your wiring, probably. Did you refer to the Inovelli wiring diagrams?
I’m guessing you have a non-neutral at the switch, based upon you thinking you need a bypass. But when you wire a canopy and switch, you re-wire at the fan box to send a hot and neutral to the switch, so that the switch is powered full time and no bypass is needed. Since you were somehow trying to wire in a bypass, I’m guessing your wiring is incorrect. Take a look at the diagram(s) below and post back with your questions.
There are three pairs of wires running into the can above the fan, black and white. The original fan wiring has fan (black wire) and light kit(blue wire) attached to a small wire coming off the large wire nut that connects all 3 black wires in the can and a white wire from fan attached to the large wire nut that connects all 3 white wires in can. When I wired canopy mod I tied the white into large wire nut with other whites, the black from module to small wire coming off large wire nut with the 3 black wires,blue to blue, and red to black fan wire
Ok, great. So to clarify, there are 3 blacks and 3 whites coming into the fan box. The black and whites are bundled separately. To connect the canopy module, you connected the black power wire to the black bundle and the white wire to the white bundle. That will properly power the module.
On the fan side, you then wired black to black and blue to blue for the fan motor and light kit.
What’s missing from your description is the fan’s neutral wire. That must be connected to the white bundle as well. So you should have four conductors in the black bundle and 5 conductors in the white bundle.
I did 3 whites in ceiling plus 1 white from module and 1 white from fan. 3 black in ceiling plus 1 from module
Okay, so that should properly power the module to take care of that part of it. Were you able to add it to HA successfully?
That will power the module but I never paired with HA. With the wiring like that the innoveli switch goes blue when I flip the breaker and then immediately goes dark no power. If I install the bypass in the canopy between the black and white wire nuts the switch gets power and stays on but the module never gets power
Did you look at the wiring diagram I posted and see my comment that states you should not be using a bypass? YOU DO NOT NEED A BYPASS. The bypass is designed to work with light bulbs, not a canopy module.
In your switch box, you have a black and white, correct? How do you have the wires connected to the switch?
I understand that. I removed bypass and was able to get leds on the module but never bothered pairing to HA. I have black wire going to line and white wire going to neutral at the blue 2in1 switch
Okay, so that’s correct. With that wiring you’re saying that the blue switch is not powering up properly? If that is the case, using a meter, test in between the black and the white to see if you get a constant 120 VAC.
If you have three pairs of conductors coming into the fan box, one of them will be the incoming hot, a second one the outgoing hot and presumably, the third one is going to the switch. If that is the case, then you should have a hot and neutral at the switch and wired as you have, the switch should power up.
You should also add the canopy to HA. That is a quick way of testing to make sure that wiring is proper. Because if it’s not, there is no sense in chasing the switch until you get the module working properly.
Okay I will wire everything back up tonight and report back. Just to confirm all black wires in can should be attached to modules black wire and all all white wires in can should be connected to fan white and module white then check the black and white while connected to switch?
Presuming you’re black is hot and your white is neutral, yes. From the what I can tell from your description, that sounds correct.
Okay I will wire and report back. I know the bypass is incorrect but why did the switch work with a bypass going across black and white at the module but not after removing it?
Took everything down and wired as you said and all is good. My original wiring for the fan had a short black wire from the ceiling coming off what I thought was the large wire nut in the can with the black wires going to the fan and light wires but turns out to be a short black wire coming from the all white wire nut so I had hooked up my canopy module white to white and black to white. Thank you for all your help I was able to add to HA and zigbee bind in minutes
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Yep, that makes sense. That is the proper wiring for when a dumb switch is used to turn the fan/light on and off. That’s why rewiring at the fan box was required.