Poll: Config Button Settings Usage

Digital Lounge
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  • Use always
  • Use often
  • Rarely used
  • Never used

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I’m interested in other people using the config button for settings changes. I know this was a huge selling point upfront and sets Inovelli apart from other brands (among many MANY other larger factors for me) but the more and more I get used to the switch the less and less I find myself seeing this as a value-add when other features may not “fit” into the switches memory.

Curious, do you use the config button to change the switch settings?

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Can you clarify what you mean by settings changes? It could mean a couple of things such as:

  • Changing the settings on the switch itself
    • Joining the zwave network - Used every time
    • Changing the ramp rate - Used Rarely
  • Selecting a mode via automation. I.e. put the theater room into movie mode - Used Often
  • Changing a not often used external setting - i.e. Change my color bulbs color and then use the switch like a normal switch- Used Sometimes

I do like having the option of using it in different ways and not sure what benefit removing the feature would have.

Troy

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I never use the configuration button for anything but include/exclude and factory reset. That said, I would like to see it become available for several scenes when removing scenes from the paddles to have instant on. I also need some of those shorter printed config buttons though. I have found when your switch is usually turned on from around the corner behind it gray you hit the config button more than you hit the paddle.

-Travis

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Purely for changing parameters. Not required components like range checks, resets, joining, etc.

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I’ve only used the config button from the setup perspective for include/exclude, range check (once) and factory reset. I haven’t felt like learning the black magic that is on device configuration.

That said, I do use it heavily for triggering scenes. I really wish the black series would support that just for the config button. You know give you a small taste of the potential in the red series :wink:

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Likewise; no more than include/exclude & reset.
If you’re using one of the supported hubs & are OK managing the custom device handlers, anything else is much easier through those.
I did see one “use case” in the forums for no hub; testing wiring during new construction - so would use the neutral & 3-way switch type settings.

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THIS…100% this. That would be amazing!!! @Eric_Inovelli potential firmware update maybe for the black series!!! :smiley: