Inovelli 2026: Our Priorities, Our Roadmap, and What's Ahead!

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Lutron ClearConnect is 433 Mhz. My understanding is that they own the slice of spectrum used by their ClearConnect hardware.

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Are there any plans to revive Project BFF (Paddle Remote)? That seems like a pretty big opportunity that isn’t in the existing lineup.

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I’d really like to see re-certification done for Japan:

Also it would be great if the forum could be updated to not auto-close threads l like the one above as it’s very formal for discussions to go on over a long period of time.

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Love my DC ceiling fans, would also like a module

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I would love to see a matter outlet and scene controller/anywhere switch that looks like a paddle switch and doesn’t require a gang box.

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I would like a zigbee or z-wave CO2 meter that is not crazy expensive or convoluted to setup. I just want something I can put in my bedroom that can be used to trigger things like turning on the hvac fan when the room gets stuffy.

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Two things I would love to see from Inovelli that really don’t exist in the market right now:

Zigbee plug in outlet module with dimming and maybe power reporting. Currently use Minoston MP21ZD Z-Wave outlets.
Zigbee battery operated dimmer switch / remote. Currently use zooz ZEN34 switches for our bedside tables.

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mmWave Thread (white series) based switch. Make it happen!!!

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They are happening, just not for awhile! Possibly late 2026 - just a lot of other projects in the works right now! And we’d like to fine tune any and all issues with the zigbee and z-wave versions before releasing the matter version.

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Are white series button controller dimmers on the roadmap?

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I am curious and anxious for this as well.

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The paddles and config button on every White Series switch sends Matter button tap (up to 5 taps) and button hold and release events. Just curious - what else are you looking for? Fully supported in Home Assistant and Homey; other platforms like iOS / Google Home have some support, but not as good as Homey / Home Assistant.

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Not at this time! Same with mmWave basically - looking to get the blue and red series out first and figure out all the quirks and issues and get those resolved before we move on to matter version. So it will be eventually, but not this year.

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I think a fan remote to pair with the canopy module would be my main request.

I’d envision it paired directly to the canopy (though I have two fans I’d want to control from the same remote) so it wouldn’t necessarily have to be different for zwave or zigbee or thread. Maybe it could use RF to communicate with the canopy, meaning you could create one remote and it would work with any of the product lines.

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Great update!! While I am a long time Zwave user (15 years) when I build this new house I went 90% White series(Matter) and Home Assistant continues to get better with Matter… I do have a handful of the Red Series just to provide coverage for my other zWave stuff.

Happy to hear the harmonize features across lines, one item I notice differences is around White to Red series. The notification LED with White series there is an actual “switch” and with Red, I have to configure parameters. Makes for messier/complicated automations and user experience when I have two different methods of controlling the LED notifications light. Example: Matter/White series I tag all the status switches as “notification LEDs” and I can automate off this.. When outside motion is detected after midnight, it changes the notification LED to orange on all switches that are tagged “security notiifcation LEDs”. adding a zWave/Red switch to this is a mess.

Thanks and keep up the great work! Can’t wait for the button scene switches!

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Yes! Why is every single universal fan remote so ugly?

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It just says throughout 2026 for matter 1.5 support. The fan switch is listed and it has never had a firmware update and is the only inovelli device I have to regularly (8 of them) air gap them to come back on the thread network. Is there any more specific dates for the fan switch to get an update. I’m looking at my matter devices right now and 2 fans are offline for 2 days and won’t jump back on the network.

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I know it’s already 2026Q3, so this might be a 2027 thing at this point, but I’d like to throw out an idea: the ability for customers to build the firmware with different features than stock.

It looks like open sourcing the firmware isn’t on the roadmap anymore: Use the community to help with development - #15 by Kaleb_Inovelli. But it seems like there are other options aside from completely open sourcing the firmware that all basically boil down to letting us control which features go into the firmware à la carte.

The products currently come with firmware that includes all features that can fit. Sometimes features aren’t able to make it on a device due to limited space. But I’d gladly go through the efforts of building custom firmware if it meant that I could give up on some features that won’t make sense for a specific device in exchange for other features that would make sense.

Some examples might be useful (this is not an exhaustive list!):

  • VZM30-SN devices have a humidity sensor. That seems like the perfect fit for using it to control a bathroom exhaust fan. Unfortunately the humidity sensor cannot control the load with the stock firmware, it just reports its value. You have to use some sort of automation software (like Home Assistant, Hubitat, etc.) to control the load based on the humidity sensor. Since the exhaust fan is an on/off load, having things like brightness control or ramp rate don’t make a whole lot of sense on the VZM30-SN for this specific application. I’d gladly give up brightness control, or ramp rate, or even LED control to be able to have the switch itself control its load based on the humidity of its own sensor.
  • None of the Zigbee devices (at least from what I can gather) can control window coverings. It’s a different Zigbee cluster, that none of the devices support. I have some blinds that communicate over Zigbee. I’d gladly give up some other features or switch from the level control cluster to the window covering cluster for specific devices.
  • The VZM30-SN and VZM36 combo is good for being able to individually control a ceiling fan light and motor. But you have to either choose which thing is controlled by the paddle, and which thing is controlled by the configuration/favorite button; or use some sort of automation software (like Home Assistant, Hubitat, etc.) to do something more. I’d gladly give up some features to make it so the configuration/favorite button toggled which device was being controlled. I.e. if it’s the motor currently, press the configuration/favorite button, now it’s the light being controlled; and vice versa.
  • Consistency is another big concern in the back of my mind. Right now, every device comes with a ton of configuration. But in most cases I don’t want the ability to adjust everything on each device. If I have dialed in the configuration for how I want all of the ceiling light switches to work, I’d like to be able to put the same firmware on them all so I don’t have to think about it when installing or replacing them. If I know how I want ceiling fans to work, I’d like to make sure they all work the same way. The flexibility is great in the stock firmware. But the ability to remove some of that configuration would be better once I’ve sorted it out. Maybe that would make for more space to put different features in the firmware? But also, it would mean that when I’m scrolling in the Home Assistant app on my phone, I don’t accidentally adjust one of the 10s of LED settings and then have to try and figure out what’s wrong with this switch days later.

How this could happen is a whole spectrum:

  • It could be something like ESPHome, where you have a configuration file that folks run through a program to generate the firmware.
  • It could be something like SILabs’ Simplicity Studio that is its own IDE that generates the firmware.
  • It could be very coarse-grained for now and only let the current feature set that’s available be selected.
  • It could be more fine-grained and basically let folks program their own logic.
  • It could be instructions on how to build firmware for the devices, letting folks do whatever they want, and providing no guarantees/warranties.

But importantly, the firmware doesn’t have to be open source for any of this to happen. We just need the tools to build the firmware. You can keep the actual firmware closed source.

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I also want to cast another vote for these things:

But for Zigbee. It seems there aren’t really any normal looking Zigbee remotes that fit a wall plate.