I recently purchased a few inovelli switches. Originally, I thought I could just find them and install. I started with my black series dimmer switch. My zwave network found it, but it comes up as inovelli.unknown… However, I can still turn it on/off andn adjust the brightness. So I did a little research and found instructions from 2015 that talks about installing open zwave to make them work - however, there you can now install open zwave from the addon store. So, now i’m not sure of the steps I should be taking - once I install open zwave, are there other things that I should be doing? Do I need to exclude the switch and re-install it. Do I need the MQTT server? Any help or a point in the right direction would be great.
They provide instructions on the inovelli website. I went through the same thing with my red dimmers. Try this: https://support.inovelli.com/portal/kb/articles/installation-setup-lzw31-dimmer-black-series-gen-2-home-assistant
I believe I excluded them and then re-added. I didn’t try the add on but may need to look into that.
I actually read that at some point - but now that OZW is an addon, does that change how it works?
Curious about this as well.
It seems now that the OZW is build into zwave, everything is working. I can change the parameters of the switch with “zwave.set_config_parameter” service. I don’t even need to install the openzwave integration. These are the black series dimmer switches.
So to change the color of the LED on the switch from home assistant I would set it up like this…
“node_id”: 14,
“parameter”: 13,
“value”: 135 - this makes the light turquoise
I can also use Node Red to automate the parameters of the switch using the “call service” node with the following info.
Server: Home Assistant
Domain: zwave
Service: set_config_parameter
Data: {“node_id”:14,“parameter”:13,“value”:255} - which would make the LED red.