What is the reason for this? I just saw it on the pricing/listing page (Inovelli White Series 2-1 Smart Switch • Works With HomeKit • Matter) that Multi-Tap is supported in Apple Home & SmartThings only - what is the reason for this? Is this a Home Assistant limitation with the Matter implementation? My existing blue series switches have HA multi-tap support.
Button tap events are definitely supported in Home Assistant for all of the White Series wall switches.
Home Assistant supports the following button events:
Long Hold / Long Release / Button taps, from 1 through 5 buttons.
They can be a bit tricky to set up automations correctly (this is not an Inovelli issue - its a Home Assistant event handling issue), but I have written a brief Wiki description of how to do it here: Home · jvmahon/HomeAssistant-Tools Wiki · GitHub .
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This looks like it needs a blueprint similar to the ones I have for red and blue switches:
- Red: homeassistant-config/blueprints/automation/rohankapoorcom/inovelli-vzw31-sn-red-series-switch.yaml at master · rohankapoorcom/homeassistant-config · GitHub
- Blue: homeassistant-config/blueprints/automation/rohankapoorcom/inovelli-vzm31-sn-blue-series-switch.yaml at master · rohankapoorcom/homeassistant-config · GitHub
I’d offer to make one but I don’t own any Thread devices and don’t plan on owning any anytime soon.
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There’s a link to a blueprint at the Wiki location I mentioned.
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Thanks both for your replies. I’m not sure what the blueprint would be needed for exactly, I’ve never used blueprints before.
My blue switches show up in HA and all of the multi tap options show up no problem when I’m selecting triggers for automation. I’ve never needed a blueprint for my blue switches - is it mandatory now?
Blueprints are not mandatory. They just make it a lot easier to make a single automation that can control all of the multi tap combinations for one or more switches without having to duplicate a lot of code.
You can read more about them here Using automation blueprints - Home Assistant
No, they are not mandatory.
But the event model that Home Assistant uses for matter makes setting up button taps tricky. The wiki link I gave, above, gives detailed instructions on home to set up automations without blueprints. It needs to be followed carefully.