“I'm using this successfully with 16x 6W dimmable LEDs without needing the bypass. I am using a neutral connection though, and did need a bit of tinkering with some of the parameters to get it to successfully dim down to the lowest level. I had great support from Vesternet in doing this though - fantastic customer service.
For info, I'm using with Vera Edge. In the standard UI7 interface it shows a pesky "can't detect device" error, even though it controls it just fine. I'm not too bothered though as I use ALTUI instead.”
“Comes configured for momentary switches. Needed to modify the device handler for SmartThings to work with UK toggle switches. Once working is very cool”
“Easy to wire in and just about the only one that can be used in UK households but expensive for what it is. Especially as I had to buy the bypass for it to work on my LEDS.also you will probably need a deeper switch box. Check what's behind yours before ordering. We had batons behind most of our boxes. You can mount it in the ceiling if you want to though.”
“I bought this dimmer to replace a failed Fibaro Dimmer around 4 years old in a Veralite system, so I expected it to be a straight swap without any problems, however this wasn't exactly the case.
A couple of minor issues have come up which are perhaps worth being aware of:
When the dimmer is included on to the system it sets up the main dimmer icon and 2 child icons. The 2 child icons don't do anything but you can't delete them and they do mess up your controller dashboard.
Secondly the main dimmer device continually has the message "Can't Detect Device". This is normally a big issue stopping you controlling the device and preventing scenes in which it is included from working. However despite the error messages everything seems to work properly either from direct control of the device or via scenes. I did set up a scene with some Lua code which I found on the forums which resets the commfailure variable from 1 back to 0, but this only removes the error for a short time and probably doesn't make any difference anyway.
So in summary all seems to work ok, good to have the power use facility, but shame you have to put up with the above issues on the latest upgrade of this device.”
“I had problems initially installing it right, but after receiving fantastic advice from mark and jonatas -the support team, all worked
led dims without any flicker at all, with fibaro 2 bypass.
every setup is different, and il advice anyone to get advice 1st to get all thats needed, like i did”
“Had real problems wiring this in. Took me about 4 attempts to get it working properly even with wiring diagrams. Works fine now though I doubt I would like to repeat the experience. In my opinion it is overpriced but works well”
“Been looking for a 2-wire dimmer for behind a switch for ages, plenty for 3-wire configuration few for 2-wire. Also needed to work with Samsung SmartThings Hub.
Discovered this one by trawling Vesternet, seemed to fit my requirements.
Delivery was quick, but I faltered initially; my fault, not the dimmers.
If you're going to buy one for 2-wire, and intend to use LED bulbs (filament bulbs over 40W are fine) you *MUST* also buy a by-pass device (£10). What it does is gives the dimmer enough power to operate--it's not a problem for 3-wire as there is a neutral wire.
Fitting was simple, it's quite small and fitted behind my wall switch easily. Fitting the by-pass, just as easy; inside the rose lamp or pendent wire in the by-pass across the bulb connection.
Configuration was simple with SmartThings, picked it up as a basic device (on/off/dim). There is an additional device driver if you want it to measure the power usage as well.
Would I get another, certainly.”
“I'm using several of these with Smartthings v2 hub some configured as a dimmer and some as a straight switch. The 2 wire (no neutral) installation is excellent for UK installation. There is a better custom driver available on the Smartthings forum than the standard one customise parameters according to your needs. But why doesn't this work out of the box with low current LEDs? I was surprised that a separate bypass unit is required.”
