5 Next Level Automation Posted by Jeff P on Sep 15th 2020

These dimmers are incredible! I recently finished my basement, and bought enough of the red series for every switch that was going in. My house was built back in 2017, and I equipped GE z-wave dimmers throughout most of the house. After using the Inovellis for a month or so now, I'm trying to justify replacing all the GEs with Inovellis. Things that set these dimmers apart (for me): * Scene control through separate actions * Loads more configuration options in my HA hub (Hubitat) * LED status bar that indicates the dim level (also configurable for notifications) * Ability to set the maximum/minimum dimming threshold -- This is something that always annoyed me about the GEs; E.g. dimming a light to 10%, but at that level there is no light output. With the Inovellis, I can set the minimum dimming threshold to 15%, so you can truly dim the light to its lowest tolerance without it turning off. One of my favorite scene controls is the following: In the basement, I had a bar built. It has four dimmers controlling four lights in three separate gang boxes across the room. I quickly realized what level I liked the dimmers by default, so I created a scene: Bar Default. When you walk into the bar area from the hall, I have an Inovelli switch for the hall light. If you tap the configure button on the hall switch, it will toggle the Bar Default scene and turn all four lights on (or off) and set their respective brightness level. Even my electrician was impressed at the possibilities. Oh, and also the price. He said the cheapest he would provide a "dumb" dimmer would be $45, which is higher than the MSRP of Inovelli switches! tl;dr: These switches are easy to install, highly configurable, and offer way more features than any others I've used. Highly recommend!