Lampie: Notifications on Multiple Inovelli Switches

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I’ve spent the last few weeks converting a set of automations I had to an integration that I’d be able to share. The result is Lampie.

This allows you to quickly setup notifications that can be displayed on multiple Inovelli Blue switches simultaneously. It currently only works for the Blue series switches set up with ZHA. That’s what I have and how I have it set up. I’d love to get it working with Z2M and Inovelli’s White & Red switches, too. I’ll probably need some help with that as I have no way to test and no experience with those. (In theory, it shouldn’t be too hard.)

It’s part of HACS default, so installing it should be pretty easy.

I hope some of you find this useful. Please report whatever you find doesn’t work quite right. Enjoy!

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I also posted this over on the Inovelli community forums.

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This looks really interesting. I’m still waiting for some of my Inovelli switches to come, but I have some use cases where I’d like multiple switches to be “saying” the same thing, and this looks like an interesting way to get the core of that setup.

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Yeah, I’ve got these all over the house and it’s really nice to have them notify from various locations.

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I’m trying to figure out how to assign colors to individual LEDs. The blueprint script I was using had some predefined colors effects, and I’m trying to duplicate that. The “rainbow” effect uses the following colors (bottom to top):

[222, 189, 166, 94, 53, 25, 0]

I can’t figure out from the documentation how to enter that in the FULL LED CONFIGURATION section at the bottom of the setup for the new device. I’ve tried 8 or 9 different ways, but I don’t understand what “a list of items for each LED” means, or at least I haven’t guessed the right format yet.

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You should be able to use:

- color: 222
- color: 189
- color: 166
- color: 94
- color: 53
- color: 25
- color: 0

But I would have expected what you entered to have worked directly as well, so you can open a bug report to support it (and I’ll get to it as long as there wasn’t some conflict I’ve already forgotten about) and have released a new version that will also support:

[222, 189, 166, 94, 53, 25, 0]
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I’ll open a bug report. I spent some time digging in the error logs. There’s some problem with the brightness type, but if I change the code in types.py so that it uses a static 100 as the brightness instead of trying to get the brightness attribute, it works.

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Huh. I just tried your rainbow (beautiful, by the way) and had no problem. Be sure to include the diagnostic info and hopefully I can recreate the error.

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I posted over on the Inovelli forums with a request for help trying to get this working for Red & White switches as well as Zigbee2MQTT.

If you use any of those and are interested in helping, here’s a link to the comment with the details:

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Hi all, I’ve posted an alpha release for MQTT support. I don’t know if it will work at all, but you can install it via HACS.

There are some requests in the release notes about how you could help test this out and get MQTT support added. I’ve copied them below for quick reference:

This is an alpha release with the goal of allowing a broad audience to test MQTT support. There has been no testing against physical devices. At this point, all testing has been done using a test suite, so this release may not work at all for MQTT.

Goals for those who install and test this alpha release, please enable debug logging.

logger:
  default: warning
  logs:
    custom_components.lampie: debug

Please upload your full log file to the GitHub pull request.

Also, please report back on the following:

  • Is the list of entities in the config entry is properly filtered to only Inovelli devices
  • Note whether enabling a solid notification works
  • Note whether enabling a notification with a custom LED config works, i.e. [222, 189, 166, 94, 53, 25, 0]
  • Note whether double pressing on the config button works to dismiss a notification

Thanks in advance! :tada:

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