I could have sworn I had a version of the Insteon Panel that I tested and was really pleased that I could change the dim level of the led background light. But today, I was demonstrating it to my wife, and it didn’t change. Did this get broken?
I guess I’ll look for a new version of the HA. Ok, I tried 2022.5.5 “latest” running on Synology DSM 7.x and it still doesn’t work.
… time passes …
What DOES still work is turning the LED off altogether. Just the LED dimming doesn’t seem to work.
Not sure if this is relevant, since you do not describe your setup in relation to HA, but Insteon seems to be shutting down, so if you are on a insteon dependent integration, then that might be the problem.
Their notice
Thanks Wally, but I’m well aware of Insteon going belly up. That is why I converted to using HA. And I’m GLAD Insteon went belly up as far as the software side of things. I really liked their hardware, but the software kind of sucked. Now with Home Assistant I have FAR more control and flexibility than Insteon could ever provide. I just have ONE thing that I know (at least so far) that doesn’t work. And that is the led brightness on the switch.
And the Insteon Panel in the Insteon integration works very nicely and should be even better with time. It has allowed me to clear out all the schedules and scenes and now I have everything working with Home Assistant.
PLUS things like being able to know the status of the TV and Roku devices and the Denon receiver and more.
Loving my Insteon Home Assistant.
Good, but then it is maybe a missing feature in the integration, so try to jump on the GitHub page for that integration and look for issues.
The feature is there in the Insteon Panel. It just doesn’t work. There is nothing in GitHub for it. I was hoping someone else with Insteon would confirm that it doesn’t work for them either. Or maybe it does work for them and there is something wrong with MY configuration (either HA or Insteon or device)
I will look and post back to you. I can confirm that it did work but I have not tested in a bit. I assume you change it in the panel and then write the changes to the device ALDB.
Yep, I went to the Insteon Panel, selected the device where it showed the led dimming level, I changed it, it showed it was changed, and then I did the write to device. But the device never showed the change in the led brightness.
(I’m not sure that the ALDB is involved since it isn’t a pairing of devices or such)
I just tested. Went to the Insteon Control Panel.
Looked up KeypadLinc On/Off 1F.15.0A (which is a 6 button controller in my bedroom).
Set “LED Dimming” to “20”.
Wrote changes to the device.
Looked at the switch, light is very low.
Went back and set “LED Dimming” to “222”.
Wrote changes to device.
Looked at the switch, certainly it was changed.
So it works for me.
{Note to self, reset it back to low or the wife will complain!!!}
Thanks a lot for testing. I am using SwitchLinc 2477D.
Anybody else have a SwitchLinc that successfully does this function?
So the Switchlinc 2477D … I have a few of them. You mean the brightness of the little LED lights next to the switch.
I can confirm that changing that in the GUI had no effect, it does not appear to work.
Okay, good to know. I could have SWORN it worked when I first tried the Insteon Panel.
I think so to. But I was testing on a different installation in my DEV environment. I was pretty sure I was changing LED on that particular device but maybe it was a simple on/off and not a dimmer. Not sure.
Any more word about why this doesn’t work and if it will eventually?
I am also interested in this, for the same reason. (My wife likes the LED levels on the dimmer switches to be set at a very low level) Would love to know if this is a future feature.
FWIW, you DO know that you can set the led levels manually, right?
The LED levels on the switch itself? the little green light on the wall switch that my wife prefers to be a nice dim (very dim) glow? I used to be able to set that value with the insteon app, how do I set it manually?
Thanks
STUPIDLY, they didn’t make it obvious in the most recent documentation that Insteon produced. The earlier document I have from 2014 makes it very clear in plain English. The later documentation says in one place that it can only be done in software and introduces a flow chart that SHOWS how to do it manually, but good luck interpreting the flow chart. I’ve looked at that chart a dozen times and I can never figure it out. And I’ve been a programmer since 1966!
Any way, here is a picture showing the steps (I don’t know why it is numbered the way it is. I don’t remember where I got this):
I tried to upload the document, but apparently this site doesn’t allow that.
… time passes …
Okay, here is from the old documentation (and I included setting the ramp rate manually also):
And for the record, here is that flow chart:
