Group light switches together

Developer's Corner Scene Scripting
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Hi,

I have Verlight and some Jasco z-wave light switches. I have some scenes set-up so they all turn on together at certain times, but is it possible to group them together? For example there are 3 switches, if one of the switches are turned on manually the other 2 should also turn on. The same thing should happen when turning them off. Is this possible to do?

2

Sure, set up a scene using the switches\on as triggers and in the actions turn all the lights on. Set up a second scene using the switches off as triggers and in the actions turn all the lights off.

No code needed.

3

You’ll run into the issue of a delay for the other switches to turn on or off based on the manual action of the one switch. This is because these switches do not support instant status and will require Vera to poll the switch to update the status. This delay can be anywhere from a couple seconds to several minutes.

  • Garrett
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[quote=“garrettwp, post:3, topic:180974”]You’ll run into the issue of a delay for the other switches to turn on or off based on the manual action of the one switch. This is because these switches do not support instant status and will require Vera to poll the switch to update the status. This delay can be anywhere from a couple seconds to several minutes.

  • Garrett[/quote]

Right, Plus the GE’s don’t support zwave associations so you don’t have that option either.

5

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I am doing this with no real issue. The lights do not come on\go off at the exact same time but there isn’t a huge noticeable delay. I have as much of a delay with my three way switches as I do with the scenes turning other lights on\off with a manual switch.

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Do you have many zwave devices? If not wait until you add more. The polling of devices increase as Vera has to poll each device.

  • Garrett
7

Maybe that’s it. I have about 30 devices not counting virtual devices and containers. 12 of those are from the DSC alarm system.

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Alarm panels are counted as one.