Hey everyone, I have some white series dimmable switches on back order. Currently, I have 3 Cync GE bulbs in a room with a Cync dimmable switch controlling them. The bulbs are just in lamps and the switch is hardwired, but not to the light fixtures, so it’s all controlled remotely. The performance is absolutely acceptable, in terms of dimming, response time, and just overall expectations for how the lights should work.
I’m trying to move away from Cync as I want to be fully integrated into Homekit, I like hue bulbs better (I have a bunch), and I want to get my Cync switches out of Homebridge- which isn’t terribly stable.
Will I not have this same performance as the Cync ecosystem with Hue+Inovelli white in smart bulb mode?
side note: I’d like to keep the hue bridge intact and outside of hue/zigbee, I’m really trying to build out our matter network primarily- so not really looking to go to zigbee or zwave.
Thank you,
Patrick
It won’t work as you’re probably hoping. You can do dimming but you’ll have to make automations for it with IF statements and will have to keep pressing the paddle to accomplish the said dimming effect.
Most of the limitations will come from apple home but also some from the Matter standard.
I have a switch that works some Nanoleaf MoT bulbs but it’s nothing like dimming a regular bulb as far as speed and smoothness
Thanks for the reply! Do you feel like we’ll end up trying to dim too quickly and try to press the paddle for too short of time and accidentally turn the lights off instead of dimming them?
Also, could we map like say 25% and 10% to the favorites button instead? (assuming you can add more than 1 favorite to that button)
Thanks in advance
Yes, you can map it to the favorites button on that way. Each button has 3 tap options.
So you could map bottom button 1x press to 0% (off), 2x press 50%, 3x press 25%. Same with the scene button.
The only thing is that you’ll have to set the color in that automation too, at least in Apple Home. So if you frequently change between colors and temperatures, then it won’t dim the current color. It’ll just set the lights to a specific color and dimmed.
If that works for you, it should be fine. However, I will say that sometimes scenes don’t work super well and Hue bulbs end up being weird colors and brightness. But you can cross that bridge if you encounter it.