Thread 2-1 Switch (On/Off & Dimmer) | Project Jonagold (White Series)

Curious if you have access to matter roadmaps? Did the new matter 1.3 features help in the LED animation space at all?

What kind of influence do MFGs like yourself have to the standards, etc? like Home Assistant folks are deeper involved in the zwave alliance, is there anything like that for Matter?

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And just like that, we are mid June. Any updates for a realistic shipping date? I am building a new home and would like to have the hardware in hand before the electricians start wiring.

Thanks!

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Could there be an alternate firmware for power users?

The actual product release has been completely in limbo for the last month and you’re hammering this thread about niche features that no one but you care about :sweat_smile:

@Eric_Inovelli

I had some correspondence with Inovelli by e-mail yesterday, and they told me the switches should arrive by the end of July. I also put in a order for the fan switches, those aren’t expected to arrive until late August.

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I mean I’m happy to wait for a good product but I’m definitely disappointed about an additional month of delay

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In the past, multiplying any Inovelli pre-order shipping time estimate by PI would give you the actual delivery time… :roll_eyes:

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Looks like we are due another month and pi days of delay :smiley:

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lol.

Yes they should be here end of July. The thread certification took longer than normal since we have never done it before - the switches have been done for awhile but we had to wait for certification. I believe they are currently on a boat in the ocean which is generally 30 days shipping plus or minus a few days depending on how busy the port is.

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That is a possibility, but would be tough with how things are working right now. Apple users can install a test profile to their Apple device and that allows them to install “beta” firmware. There is only one “channel” for that type of firmware distribution though so anyone signed up for it would get the firmware updates pushed through it whether they wanted a particular feature or not. If anyone knows of a way to install an alternative firmware via a different method we could totally do something like that.

@EricM_Inovelli have you looked into the scenes functionality in the Matter 1.3 spec? I think it would be the best way to integrate the light bar animations. In theory I think you can keep the multi component setup you have now with a dimmer component and RGB light component for the light bar, then add scenes for the different light bar animations.

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Shane Whatley just posted a glowing review of the white switch on YouTube [https://youtu.be/QGN9a0QLB4Q?si=dtLZ4i2070hWBylc]

It’s HomeKit centric. But the integration looks really good!

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If he’s that impressed about a Matter device with HomeKit automations, I can’t imagine what he’d think about a Z-Wave or Zigbee device with a real hub. :smiley: (Mostly kidding — I’m glad the word is getting out, and it is a neat product that stands a chance for greater mass-market appeal than Z-Wave or Zigbee, even if it doesn’t support all the features some of us are used to … yet.)

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Replied to Eric several times in the past back when he was asking about HomeKit before Matter was official that Apple Home users would be head over heels for this switch when released! Even in the slightly limited Matter over thread release (relative to the Blue/Red), this switch simply laps the competition in capability … plus it has a more likely to be spouse-approved ‘Normal’ form factor with all the colors you could hope for. Matter will slowly add those missing capabilities, likely with home assistant leading the way, but all the other major ecosystems will get there eventually.

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I haven’t looked into it, but I will take note that it may be an option to add this feature. Is there a definition of what attributes can be stored in a scene?

Looks like its similar to Zigbee scenes
https://github.com/project-chip/connectedhomeip/blob/master/data_model/clusters/Scenes.xml

Quick update: the switches are sailing over the Pacific right now and are enroute to Customs. We received our first couple early reviews on them, which can be found here:

Excited to get these out to everyone!

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Out of curiosity, when bringing products like these to market, what kind of testing is done for the switch functionality for events like power outages, power surges, voltage fluctuations, etc?

All the devices are UL certified. UL puts them all through very tough tests for all the items you have listed in your post

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