I’m looking to swap out our existing fan/light controls with inovelli’s and was curious if anyone had any suggestions on how best to control both a light and fan with one switch. I’ve been thinking about using the canopy and then use multitap controls to control the fan and long presses to control the dimming, but that seems a little clunky. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions! I’m all ears!
If you are set up for using zigbee, you can bind the switch to the canopy module…
The lights will operate like a normal light switch, up to turn on, down to turn off, hold to dim… and the fan will be controlled via the favorites/configuration button on the upper right of the switch, where you can set it up to either cycle through the speeds (L>M>H>Off) with single presses of the button or enable multitap where 1x for Low, 2x for Medium, 3x for High, and hold for Off… or you can set it up so it just toggles on or off from the button.
We don’t have Zigbee, but I believe Matter also has binding. This is kinda what I was thinking, but was hoping for something a little simpler, so I don’t need to leave instructions for when we have guests.
Simpler requires two switches (one controls fan, one controls light) or a multi button switch that you can label.
I’m looking to do the same thing. I currently have a single gang box that has a single receptacle with 2 toggle switches. One controls the light, the other controls the fan.
I was hoping to be able to use a single blue dimmer switch with the canopy module to control both the light and fan. My idea is to use the Configuration button to toggle the rocker between light and fan control.
I’d use the LED color to indicate which is active, white for light and blue for fan. The rocker up/ down buttons would then be used to control light brightness or fan speed.
I use Home Assistant by the way, so I assume if I bang my head against the wall for long enough, this should be possible. However, if others have tried or know of a reason why it wouldn’t work, please let me know.
You could do that but then you’d have to route all control through Home Assistant.
If you configure binding like @koadic suggested above, you can get the paddle to control the lights and the config to toggle fan speeds without needing to go through Home Assistant.
Either approach should work.
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And if you are running everything in smart bulb mode anyway, go with the On/Off switch instead of the Dimmer, as at least you can run the load through the On/Off switch and kill the power to the fan via the air gap tab, but you have to completely bypass the Dimmer if wiring to a canopy module as it doesn’t support a fan load.
When using smart bulb mode, there is practically no operational difference between the two.
Interesting, why do you think Inovelli offers the combo with the dimmer then?
I was told that they started offering the combo prior to the On/Off switches being widely available. If bound to a canopy module, there is no benefit of using the Dimmer over the On/Off switch in terms of operation, but the On/Off switch has the added benefit of being able to kill power to the canopy module if needed when the air gap tab is pulled.
Again, this is because the Dimmer is only rated for resistive loads, and the On/Off switch is rated for inductive and resistive loads, therefore when using the On/Off switch you can attach the wiring to the canopy module to the Load portion of the switch, while when using the Dimmer you need to connect it to the Live portion and leave the Load terminal not connected to anything.
This is correct.
This is great info. Thank you!
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