I found parameter 121 (fan timer display) and liked it a lot, but wanted to customize it a bit. I can replicate almost all of the functionality with Home Assistant automations, but the light bar countdown has proven very difficult.
Here are the challenging parts I’ve noticed:
- Even with all of the LEDs set to an individual effect of “solid” with brightness 0, there seems to be a LED 8 that is not individually addressable at the top of the LED bar. Do I have to just turn the LED bar off entirely to hide the presence of this LED?
- Writing a new effect to a LED isn’t smooth; it seems there’s a slight delay between clearing the effect and setting the new one, and this looks kinda janky.
- At the end of the timer, I need to clear all 7 LED effects individually. Is there a better way to do this? This is another case where it looks a bit weird since you can see it clearing the bar in real-time.
In case anyone is super curious, my work-in-progress Home Assistant automation blueprint can be found here: ha-blueprints/inovelli-bind-timer.yaml at main · kbuck1/ha-blueprints · GitHub
(It also requires that you install GitHub - kschlichter/Home-Assistant-Inovelli-Effects-and-Colors: Scripts for setting LED indicators and effects on Inovelli products. and currently likely only works with Blue series switches connected to Z2M.)