I often press light switches in my house very fast, just with enough pressure to hear the actuation.
On my inovelli switches, it is very easy to press hard enough to get an audible click and not trigger the switch to turn on or off, which is immensely frustrating to all the people in my house as they all press light switches lightly/quickly
I have a video, but I can’t upload it as I’m a new user, so I’ve linked to it on Google Photos:
The switches are on firmware 1.0.5
I have relay click turned on, and you can hear and see that the switch doesn’t turn the lights on in my video unless a very firm fast press or “longer” press is performed. The edges of the paddles are worse too. It happens on the top and bottom paddle, but the problem is worse on the top (the one closest to the config button)
My girlfriend and family have the same problem with light/fast presses, and my 2-1s are on 1.1.1. It drives them absolutely insane. I seem to press hard enough most of the time, but every now and again, it will happen to me, too. Same with the white series fan switches. You hear an audible click/actuation on the switch, but it doesn’t seem to trigger unless you press harder.
A good friend of mine is a hardware engineer and says it’s probably a poor debounce algorithm and that the ideal would be a gpio interrupt that has hardware debounce but should be fairly easy to do in software too. He says the switch is currently likely polling in a loop so there’s a slight chance they miss the actuation if it’s very brief.
Hopefully this helps steer them in the right direction if they have time to look into a fix!
my original post was locked as I didn’t respond.. just forgot.. but continue to be frustrated daily with this issue as does my wife. Sometimes I even intently try to press harder and it seems the edge of the switches is most of the issue.
Glad to see others and hopefully a solution could be created for this. Love these switches.
I’m experiencing this issue with my white series dimmer switch as well. Definitely frustrating and I really hope this can be resolved with a firmware update!
+1 for this issue. It’s really frustrating to click the switch and keep walking into a dark room only to realize the lights aren’t coming up. Really is a critical usability issue. If I’d heard this about the switches before buying I’d likely hold off until it was fixed.
This is not an issue that effects me, however I can understand that it must be upsetting if it does.
If the debounce timer is made configurable in a future software release (see the other topic) it would allow those who see the issue to adjust the amount of time the paddle must be down before a click is registered.
One other thought… when I installed my first handful of white switches, I thought I was seeing something similar but only on one switch. In fact in my case I was actually clicking the config button not the up paddle on occasion if I did not look what I was doing (since that switch is on the right side of the room entrance so the config button was closer to my hand). A quick look in the HA activity logs for the switch showed this right away.
Until I trained myself not to do that I put an animation on the config button to turn the light on if I clicked the config button. Not saying that is what anyone is this topic is doing, just that it was what I was doing and what I did about it.