White Dimmer Binding and Local Control

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  • Product Tag: VTM31-SN
  • Platform Tag: Home Assistant
  • Region: US/NA

I installed an Inovelli White dimmer to control the ceiling lights in a room at my home. I also configured Matter over Thread binding between the switch and a few lamps.

I want to retain remote control over the ceiling lights via home assistant, but I don’t want physical manipulation of the switch to control the ceiling lights (ie: I want the paddle to control the lamps but not the ceiling light).

The ceiling lights are/could not [be] smart bulbs that could themselves have a matter binding configured.

edit: however, the switch stops controlling the bound lamps whenever I disable local control of the electrically-connected load. (Must’ve removed this in a draft, sorry!)

I must be missing something, because I can’t imagine any scenario where it makes sense to make “outgoing” bindings inoperable when local control of the load is disabled. How do I configure the switch to achieve what I’m looking at here?

I could of course setup a Home Assistant automation, but that is significantly less reliable than binding because there would be no way to control the lights if either the border router or HA was down.

(It is forcing me to add the “vsd30k” tag)

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I don’t have whites, and this may vary between product lines. What happens when you disable local control? Does it kill the binding commands?

PS, we’re working on getting rid of that goofy tag.

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When I disable local control, the bindings just stop working (ie: the lamps stop reacting to manipulating the paddle). I can still see the bindings within the Matter controller container’s UI and whenever local control is re-enabled the bindings automatically begin working again without reconfiguring them.

Hopefully that makes sense, but I can try to be more elaborate if necessary.