Re:The end of Insteon and why the smart home keeps faltering
by Terretta on Friday April 22, 2022 @08:34PM
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Agree with you about preferring real switches.
If I recall, I tried that Leviton and actually chose that Lutron Caseta one instead:
[5] https://www.lutron.com/en-US/Products/Pages/SingleRoomContro...
It did scenes, but also worked for normals wanting to press normal switches.
I forget the name of the thing I used to translate, it was the popular competing home hub in late 201Xs.
Re:The end of Insteon and why the smart home keeps faltering
by Nextgrid on Friday April 22, 2022 @05:06PM
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Consider one of these: https://shelly.cloud/shelly-plus-i4/ - or alternatively, if you have a lighting circuit wired to that switch, any other of their modules that also double as a relay.
Honestly I'm not a huge fan of the "weird looking button on the wall" approach of some of those devices. I have to replace wall switches anyway to get stuff to work, and I don't like "No, don't use THAT switch, press that little button thing next to it".
The closest thing I found was a Zooz ZEN32 [2] which is what I'm trying now.
Leviton makes one [3] which looks nothing like their z-wave dimmers. Lutron Caseta has some stuff that might work but I didn't want to go down that proprietary path (non-zwave). Inovelli is supposed to be making a 5-button controller [4], and their dimmers look great -- but the keypad is vaporware so far, and the rest of their switches have been out of stock everywhere for months.
[1] https://i.imgur.com/jLmGpdT.png
[2] https://www.getzooz.com/zooz-zen32-scene-controller/
[3] https://www.leviton.com/en/products/VRCS4-M0Z
[4] https://community.inovelli.com/t/z-wave-5-button-scene-contr...