Can this scene concept work?
I have the idea that late at night, when the bathroom light is turned on, I want it to default to 30% dimming rather than the last setting. I am using a GE dimming switch. I am using a UI5 Vera. Obviously easy if I use a scene controller as the switch. But can it be done using the bathroom light switch itself?
With Vera, I tried using turning on the switch as a trigger, with Vera then setting the light to 30%. But it doesn’t work, the light always comes on at last brightness setting.
Any comments or ideas?
Depends if the switch sends updates to Vera or waits to be polled. If the former, then you can have a trigger for the “device is switched on” to run a scene to “set device to 30%”. That way as soon as the switch goes on Vera resets its level to 30%, which will happen within a few seconds. It won’t be instant, though.
If the switch doesn’t send updates but waits for polling then it could be minutes before vera notices the device is on.
An alternative approach might be this: at some point in the evening, run a scene that switches the device to on at 30%, then turns it off. So the last on-level was 30%.
A third approach would be to investigate how the last on level is stored in the device and in the evening instruct Vera to set that variable to 30% maybe with some lower-level z-wave commands.
Much of this depends on which type of switch you have and what its capabilities are. I can’t tell you what the GE is capable of, but someone else might.
Thanks for the suggestion. Used method 2 and its working fine. I have a timed event to turn the lights on dim for only one second at 11PM. Don’t even see them flash on, but the switch then has the dim setting stored as the last level. Then when they are manually turned on, they come up dim.
Thanks.