I love everything you guys do, from products to customer relations. Keep it up!
I’m far from an expert on anything smart home and fairly recently started my journey, but I’d like to help in anyway I can. Here are my initial thoughts.
- How many users are programming the switch without a hub? It seems like that ability takes up a lot of real estate on the chip, and I’ve only ever adjusted settings from my hub, but perhaps some hubs aren’t as capable?
- How many people use the auto off feature? Again I would think most people would use an automation on the hub if they wanted that ability. I know in the past you’ve mentioned there isn’t always space on the switches for new features. These are the features that feel least useful to me.
- How many people are using power monitoring? From my perspective there is very little need to monitor the power of my lights, the only thing I use power monitoring for is to tell if specific appliances/TVs, etc are on. None of these are connected to my switches.
- I’d love it if the LED bar would have less of a fade when it is showing the current value. A more clear line would make it easier to tell the current state of the switch at a glance
- I’d love it if there was an additional hole for neutral and ground wires on the back. This would allow ‘daisy chaining’, cutting down extra wire / marettes in the boxes with multiple switches. In the attached technical drawing: Black is hot, blue is neutral, green is ground. I had a four gang and five gang box and it was a real challenge to get everything to fit, even being a brand new build with large boxes. Something like this would have been a huge help.
- If I switch the LED bar to a color in an automation, then switch it back to white, it doesn’t go back to true white. On Hubitat that leaves a 40 in the Custom LED RGB Value, which makes the switch look yellow. Perhaps this is more of a Hubitat issue, but it’s a little annoying to not be able to set the LEDs to a color then back to white without going back and doing it manually
- If you set parameter 2 to 101 it will follow the value of parameter 1. Could we get something like that to link parameter 9 and 10 (default dimmer value)?
- I’ve mentioned this previously, but I think a PIR sensor in the switch would be really cool to see someday.
