Activate Fibaro dimmer for set amount of time

Other Devices & Integrations Lighting & Load Control
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All,

Is it possible to program a Fibaro dimmer to come on only for a set amount of time before switching off automatically? Whether this is done by defining parameters or by using scenes doesn’t really matter. I could just do with it so it turns off automatically after a pre-set amount of time each time it is activated wirelessly.

Any thoughts?

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The Fibaro relays (FGS211 / FGS221) have parameters #3 and #4 which enable this function for a programmable amount of time. These parameters don’t seem to appear in the dimmer (FGD211) documentation, so I can’t say if they work in the same way.

An obvious alternative is to trigger a scene when the dimmer switches on which simply delays and then turns the device off.

So yes, one way or the other, this should be straight-forward.

Do we take it that you got over your previous problem reported in a separate post with these dimmers?

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I see. So How should I go about actually setting up a scene which turns the dimmer off after a certain amount of time.

With regards to my other problem - no not sorted. Still intermittent issues. :frowning:

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Take a look at:

[url=http://wiki.micasaverde.com/index.php/Scenes#Create_scene_on_Vera2_with_UI5]http://wiki.micasaverde.com/index.php/Scenes#Create_scene_on_Vera2_with_UI5[/url]

or, indeed:

http://wiki.micasaverde.com/index.php/Luup_Scenes_Events#Switch_on.2C_and_switch_off_2_seconds_later

First one is just using the Scene interface with a managed delay, second one accomplishes much the same using Luup code in the scene. Set up a trigger for the scene to be started by the dimmer being switched on.