Got my 2-1 Dimmers last week and started the installs today. Love them so far but Ihave a question.
Whare are the plans for future firmware updates? how will the updates be rolled out?
I know with other hubs like home assistant and hubitat you can manually download the new firmware and upload them to the switches. However, Apple (being apple) is a bit more restrictive. Most of my other smart devices have to be updated through a third party app (Eve, Nanoleaf, etc) Few if any will update firmware directly from the home app. how will this be addressed?
Siri problems like this are not an Inovelli firmware issue. They are an Apple UI problem that Apple needs to fix. I’ve posted feedback on Apple’s feedbackassistant.apple.com (item # 13487464) and Apple has responded “Potential fix identified - For a future OS update”. So, its a bit vague, but at least they are acknowledging the issue.
I’d encourage others with this problem to report it to Apple so it gets some notice!
For now, best solution is to use HomeAssistant, pair the device to HomeAssistant, not Apple iOS, and then use HomeAssistant’s built-in Apple HomeKit bridge to bridge the light endpoints from HomeAssistant back to Apple. Its a bit of a convoluted solution, but it allows the device endpoints to be put into different rooms so that you can better control how Siri interacts with them.
Also, the button tapping buttons “Button 1”, “Button 2”, “Button 3” show in iOS seem to be inconsistently and randomly assigned to the Inovelli Paddle-Up, Paddle-Down and Config buttons.
So, after you install each switch, if you want to use the button tapping, you should be sure to test each paddle on the switch and see which iOS “Button” it got assigned to. Inovelli is, to my knowledge, the first Matter device with multiple usable buttons, and Apple hasn’t caught up to this yet, so they didn’t think what happens for a Matter device with a button count greater than 1.
Terrible Apple UI here. I’ve posted feedback to Apple (feedbackassistant.apple.com, item 13566249) and they have responded “Potential fix identified - In iOS 17.4”, but as of iOS 18 beta 8, it still does not seem to be fixed. I’d encourage others with this problem to report it to Apple so it gets some notice!
I’ve noticed that when you select show as separate tiles in the switch settings you lose the switch settings interface to program the multi-tap options. Anyone have a solution to this?
Yet another item where I’ve posted to Apple’s feedbackassistant.apple.com (item 13487464). Posted the feedback in December 2023. Apple recently responded “Potential fix identified - For a future OS update”.
I just did this tonight where I have 2 switches in one room and the “switch” device with the 3 seashells, sorry, buttons shows up in the settings for the LED notification bar. Why? No idea! But there they are.
Show as single tile: load and led are grouped and switch is separate and under “Other”
Show as separate tiles: load and led are separate and switch disappears
Show as separate tiles && group the LEDs: switches show up in the group of LEDs‽ when you open the “2” accessories you find 4‽ tiles (2 LEDs and 2 switches) go figure!
Temp solution for this is to group the switch back into one. Change whatever multi-tap you want to change and then separate them again. All multi tap actions will stay even tho the menu disappears.
This is an instance of crappy iOS user interface. I’ve reported this on apple’s feedback assistant and received a response that there will be a fix in a future iOS version. Pretty vague. Is that iOS 18.1, 19, 99, who knows? Both iOS Home and Google Home are way behind in their interface for a full-feature device like this. Would encourage everyone to urge Apple and Google customer service to look at this device and fix their interface.