Dimmer fast double-click condition?

Plugins & Plugin Development Program Logic (PLEG)
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I currently respond to:

Dimmer_Turned_Off, Dimmer_Turned_On < 10

It’s sort of a double-click condition. Except that because it’s a dimmer, I have to wait a while for the ramp to complete before pressing the second time, and then wait again to ensure the scene/action triggers. Not as intuitive as I’d like.

I’d like to respond immediately to rapid double-clicks, or even triple-clicks. I’m using dimmers with “Instant Status” and was hoping to get this type of functionality out of them. Can I act on any sort of “begin ramp” notification in PLEG?

I don’t know if Z-Wave or MCV lacks this sort of capability.

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p.s. I know this issue isn’t specific to PLEG, but I’d hoping to hear from an expert on whether or not it’s possible.

If it helps, I did in fact purchase PLEG, and I also contributed a workaround on another PLEG issue! :slight_smile: http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,28818.msg207602.html#msg207602

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The following should work.

Dimmer_Turned_Off, Dimmer_Turned_On < 10

If you want double ON use:

Dimmer_Turned @ 2 < 10

If you want double OFF use:

Dimmer_TunedOff @ 2 < 10

If you want 3 transitions (Any form on/off/on or off/on/off)

AnyTransition Dimmer_TurnedOn or Dimmer_TurnedOff
MultiTrigger AnyTransition @ 3 < 10

You would need to mark the condition AnyTransition to allow repeats.

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Thank you for the reply, Richard. I do have that working, but is has the latency problem I mentioned. It also has a problem (because the trigger is the load status not the dimmer click) of causing unintended side-effects. Scenes will trigger other scenes. To fix that I have to put in debounce callbacks, and those have to be really long because of the dimmer ramp times. Everything starts to get really hard to troubleshoot. It also really brings shortcomings in the MCV programming scheme to light…

At any rate, what I was actually trying to ask is:

Do you know of any event or property I can watch for a more immediate notification of a single dimmer click or ramp start?

I’ve been trying to get access to sniff /dev/ttyS0 to watch if there is any immediate notification when the dimmer is clicked, to see if it is even possible at a Z-Wave level. Then the next question would be if there is a corresponding Vera event. etc.

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I am not expert on most Z-Wave devices …
Look over the device properties (in the advanced tab of a device) and see if you can find anything that may be useful.
You will probably have to experiment to see the exact behavior.