13 hours ago13 hr This was one of those "stumbled across it" events. Insteon will continue to support yet no more production is planned for the I3 paddle. I don't write this to stir things up, more to alert others that may have bet their entire switch "farm" on the I3 paddle like me. I have almost 40 of them. I have a reasonable stock of uninstalled paddles and a few that I decided separately really aren't needed and will add them to the spares.TLDR: If you depend a lot on i3 paddles, now is the time to build up spares if you don't have them. The only grumble I have is that I finished my install several years ago, and if someone hadn't pointed it out to me, I wouldn't have known.
10 hours ago10 hr If I had to hazard a guess, it wasn't selling as well as the other i3 devices simply because they already had a really good paddle switch and dimmer.
24 minutes ago24 min Author 10 hours ago, jec6613 said:If I had to hazard a guess, it wasn't selling as well as the other i3 devices simply because they already had a really good paddle switch and dimmer.Agreed. It's likely a low volume and definitely higher cost. Also Insteon may not be navigating the supply chain / chip mfg / tariff changing and murky waters as well as others. Raising the price would also raise hell, so not a realistic option for an unchanged, years old design - good as it is.There are also complaints about the fit.. they didn't design it with the rectangular bezel to meet the faceplate like Leviton (and others) do. It did take a little longer to get them in right and sometimes took removing, adjusting wires and pushing back.
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