Inovelli has a product in preorder that comes pretty close though so I think that will get fixed.Īssociations operate local to the switches, scene control goes through the hub. I use quite a few of those to reduct wall rash controlling a lot of different lights/scenes. I suspect that there are some complex cases where the Insteon direct communication paradigm is more efficient that you’d get with zwave but I think they aren’t really too common.īy the way, one place that Insteon has a clear product advantage at the moment is the Keypad Linc devices. This uses the already present traveler to connect the switches directly so for those it doesn’t use associations or the hub. What I generally do for my 2-ways (or 3-ways) is to use an AUX switch on the far end. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a 6-way but, of course, everyone’s house is different. I don’t know what the practical limits of 5 is but as I understand it you’d need to be running a 6-way control of a light for that to be an issue (and you’d still be able to handle via the hub). I run all my multi switch stuff through the hub and so there are no limits there. I haven’t gotten any issues with the association limit because I don’t use associations. There isn’t any downside to running the mqtt version of zwavejs - you just turn off the mqtt side and you get the better control panel. I think they are working toward allowing all those settings directly in HA but don’t think they are there yet. You can set all the parameters from the zwavejs2mqtt control panel. This has actually annoyed me because I have a couple of dimmers that I want to come on to very different levels when switched on in the middle of the night than during the day, at best with HS you have to work around to approximate that. In your example, Inovelli can preset a default brightness when turned on (actually I think it can have separate default levels for local turn on vs hub turnon) whereas HomeSeer can’t. The different zwave manufactures have different capabilities. Is it possible to to configure their local on brightness and ramp levels? How? For example, I have a couple of light dimmers installed. But I don’t even know where I would start.

Setup insteon camera without hub