I’m currently converting 2 houses entirely over to Inovelli Blue series switches (will end up buying about 80 total switches of various types). These are so much better than trying to use the old Lutron Connected Bulb Remote.
One thing that would be really nice is if each of the 7 notification LEDs presented as a virtual light. The idea being I could treat each of the LEDs as a light in Home Assistant. I currently have plans to use each one to display critical status information about the home, such as one will be red if the outer gate is open (so we know it isn’t safe to let the dog out), another would be red of a garage door is open, etc. While I’ve been able to make it work by sending ZHA commands, treating it as a light would be a lot easier.
Even better would be if the LEDs could be put into a Zigbee group, so HA could just address the group and all the switches that need to display the status would update at one time.
I’d really like this ability too. I’m about to move into a new house and will be using all Innovelli switches. I have a Hubitat that is really just a Zigbee/Z-Wave bridge to Home Assistant, and I’m 90% sure the Hubitat/HA integration won’t let me send parameters to the switches to control the LEDs in the switch, so if I want to do that, I’m going to have to move all my Zigbee stuff to HA, and that also means getting it off Docker on my NAS and onto something like a HA yellow. I’ll do it if I have to, but that’s a lot of work just to control to LEDs in the switches.
When I said the Hubitat was just a Zigbee/Zwave bridge, I really meant it. I keep no logic in Hubitiat at all. It’s all done in HA, and I don’t want to change that. It doesn’t look like that app you mention (well at least one of about four that come back when you do a search for “Hubitat Inovelli LED notifications app”) has any way HA can talk to it, so I’m not sure how useful it will be for my use case. If the Inovelli switches exposed each LED as a separate light, I could easily control them in HA while still using my Hubitat as a Zigbee/Zwave bridge.
I’m running HA on Docker on a Synology NAS. While it’s technically possible to use USB sticks with that, it’s an exercise in madness. So that means switching everything out for something like a HA Yellow and then basically starting from scratch because any Zigbee or ZWave entity will have a name and/or ID change. It may end up that’s a better choice in the long haul, and it’s where I’m probably headed, but it’s going to be a ton of work to migrate off the Hubitat.
I think what the previous person was saying is that you don’t need to move HA off your NAS.
Just get a raspberry pi, plug in a Zigbee USB stick, and run Zigbee2MQTT on the RPi. HA connects to Zigbee2MQTT to run the zigbee network.
I use two of these to essentially extend my zigbee network with a network cable. Just run the network out to the guest house, drop an RPi out there, plug in a zigbee stick, and then I can control all the zigbee devices in the guest house without worrying about the main home’s mesh recahing.
Continue to run HA where it is and spin up a new docker container for Zigbee2mqtt. You can do the same thing with Z-Wave JS and and this kit Z-Wave PoE Kit – TubesZB