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Re:The end of Insteon and why the smart home keeps faltering by gregmac on Friday April 22, 2022 @03:12PM (#31126660)
For some context, here's one of my old keypads [1]: controlling outside lights, garage door (status plus control), and scene control (Welcome = several lights on the main floor; All off = very slow fade off of everything). The other one I really miss was in the kitchen and had "Bright", "Dim" and "Off" and controlled lights over the island + sink + under-cabinets + range-hood + some accent LED strips.

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...

Re:The end of Insteon and why the smart home keeps faltering by Terretta on Friday April 22, 2022 @08:34PM (#31130064)
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 (#31128144)
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.