Hi, I’m new to this and have got most things up and running but this is puzzling me
I have several lwrf dimmers, when adding them i created the device in vera manually (i don’t have a remote), this works fine for the on/off/dimmer device. however it also creates a second device with the same name with the mood buttons , what is the point of this device ? am i supposed to be able to create pre set moods/setting for this device , if so how because i can’t see a way too ?
im guessing this might be really obvious
any help would be great
Thanks Mark
You need a special switch controller.
LightwaveRF - How to set up master mood switch : LightwaveRF - How to set up master mood switch - YouTube
ok iv realised the mood switches on each device in the ui can be used as triggers to then say set a mood though a scene.
I have a master mood switch but i can’t get that set up with vera / rfxtrx i can only get it to appear as a single switch for the 1 and 0 buttons. The link you posted is to set up the switch with dimmers directly not through vera, would be a lot better if i can get it to send signals to vera then i can get it to trigger scenes etc. any advice on setting up the mood switch in vera would be great ?
Thanks Mark
My understanding, after watching the video, is that your mood switch, once correctly setup, should send a MOOD signal when you push one of the buttons.
The message will be received by the RFXtrx and the Vera will create a new device with the different mood actions. After that, commands from this Vera device should act exactly like you physical mood switch.
Isn’t it what you noticed ?
Note that the state of each individual light switch will not be updated in the Vera when you use your physical mood switch or the Vera mood switch.
Now that I understand how this mood switch is operating, I think that is probably an error to create the second device with the different mood buttons when the user only triggers an ON or OFF action on a switch. The idea would be to create this device only when receiving a MOOD or GROUP OFF command (only for the mood switch).
Let me know what you think.
Iv had another play now and your basically right about how it works.
when you set up a mood from the master mood switch, no device is created for the switch, but vera learns the mood.
when it learns the mood it stores it on the mood device associated with that dimmer, so it only ever has mood buttons for each dimmer, there is no mood button that in the ui that can change multiple dimmers at once, you can only really trigger a multiple dimmer mood from the physical mood switch.
however if you put the mood switch into 1/0 mode it does actually create a separate device in vera that toggles in real time which is handy if you want to trigger scenes with it.
you can still use moods in this mode too and if you pair devices and set up the moods whilst in the mood mode then go back to 1/0 mode the 1/0 buttons won’t turn on and off all the devices so you can use them just to trigger scenes without messing with the lighting.
hope that helps anyone in future thinking of using one of these
thanks lolodomo for the advice so i could work out how to use it properly
Mark
My opinion is that the expected behavior is to have the equivalent of the master mood switch.
I would be curious to understand what messages are sent by the master mood switch. Maybe there is one message for each associated switch and not one global message ?
Could you use rfxmngr application to catch what are the received messages when you use your master mood switch ? My hypothesis is that you will receive several messages, one for each paired dimmer. If not, I think something is wrong in my implementation and we should have a device associated to the master mood switch.