Sweet, love the chart lol! What program is that from?
We’ll definitely get a beta team ready once we move closer and I’ll reach out – thanks for volunteering!
Yeah, we have a nice core group that tests our Z-Wave devices, but we’re definitely looking to shake things up a bit for ZigBee/Matter as it’s a separate protocol and demographic.
Specifically, we’ll be looking for people who have Hue, and Amazon Alexa (the ZigBee compatible one) to start as a lot of testing will go behind those platforms. But, of course, we’ll still need SmartThings, Hubitat, Home Assistant and any other hub that supports ZigBee.
Happy to send a DM when the time comes and if you don’t hear from me, shoot me one – I may forget tbh lol
In theory they should! I’m a huge fan of Xiaomi myself from a branding standpoint. Their story is incredible (The Xiaomi Way is an incredible book that we’ve taken a lot of ideas from).
I think so – but I’ll let @EricM_Inovelli speak to the specifics. I’m not as versed in ZigBee language as I am with Z-Wave (bc in Z-Wave you can directly associate).
I got you – we’ll probably get everything situated in the next month or so now that we’ve officially kicked everything off.
Please add me as well! I’ve got a few zigbee lights (recessed mainly) that I don’t really want to swap out, since zwave lights that aren’t bulbs are hard to come by.
I would like to also volunteer to beta test this switch. I’m currently testing which i want to use and running these which support zigbee: Hubitat, Home assistant, and i have the new alexa’s as well
Hey there… I’ve got a Hue Hub, Hubitat (primarily Innr Smart Plugs in the mesh), and an Echo w/ Zigbee hub. Let me know if you want another guinea pig. I’ve got a perfect central closet light to play with that won’t annoy my family in the event that something goes wrong.
Thanks - it’s just the native ZHA network map in Home Assistant. It does a nice job showing weak points in the mesh, nice eye candy, but it’s a little unruly imo - could use a few more options like ‘group by location’, save updated layout, etc. The ZW JS2MQTT map swings the other direction - high utility / ugly, all work / no play:
Hey @fatherdoctor - curious, are you running independent Zigbee networks, e.g. Hue lights to Hue hub, Innr to Echo, etc., or is every Zigbee device connected to a central hub? I’m caught waiting on the new / brighter Hue bulbs to drop and have been glancing at Innr on occasion - curious if they play nice in a mixed-vendor mesh…
I’ve got all of my Hue bulbs paired directly with the Hue hub on one channel and anything Innr paired to the HE on a second. The Innr mesh (which also includes some Philips branded buttons and Hue branded dimmer switch remotes) has never caused me a problem, but even keeping the Hue branded items together I occasionally get a bulb that doesn’t receive it’s command.
Project Update: We’ve paid the deposit for tooling and engineering fees, and just got the final 3D render with the updated config button. Thanks to all those who pushed back on the design – see, we do listen!
Ha, it actually just comes in plain colors. The program I use (Fusion 360) is where all the coloring takes place. I was just lazy and didn’t feel like adjusting the shading.
I dropped like 4 different colors in there and bc of the shading, they all appeared dark. I didn’t realize it would cause a controversy otherwise I would’ve taken some additional time to make the blue pop more lol
Hi, just stumbled across this and it looks like a fabulous product. I use Home Assistant myself, and I have a small online store where I sell zigbee coordinators that I make for HA / Zigbee2mqtt users.
Having an intelligent switch that can be used with a smart bulb and keep the attached load live and separate is a great feature!
Looking forward to where this goes, and definitely would be up for beta testing.
Super interested in this project. Very limited options for this today and this switch seems much better than what is out there.
Can you make sure it works well with Conbee II and home bridge? I’d be happy to help out getting it working and validate this if it you are doing a beta.