The scene I use most often in my home is the one to turn all my inside lights on in the evening. For the time being, this scene isn’t scheduled. Nearly every time I engage this scene, however, it gets hung up in the middle of it.
About a dozen switches/modules get controlled in this setup, but every time about 2-3 of them will turn on (sometimes at the desired dim level, sometimes full brightness), and then everything stops. Usually after another 10-20 seconds the rest of the lights will come on and everything will go to the right dim level. Sometimes at the end a few lights won’t be at the right dim level, and I’ll run the scene again and usually everything corrects its self.
After observing this happen several times, I noticed that in AuthomationHD I get a notice that my dining room light is waiting to respond. Now it seems that this is the same thing that trips the scene up every single time.
I have a few questions about this:
The first is obvious: why is this happening? The switch for this light is not far away from other switches at all. It’s right around the wall from two other switches (about 3’ away), and further around the corner are another three switches. Going the other way you’ll find my Trane ZWave thermostat about 2’ away.
My second question: Why would a scene get hung up on one device at all? Can’t it just keep plugging away at the other lights and make sure they’re on first? Or is it doing that and just having trouble with it?
Last question: are the Intermatic switches just not as good at communicating with other devices? I suspected they weren’t, and decided to try adding a few GE lamp modules in the general area of all my Intermatic switches (with nothing plugged into them). I noticed what seemed to be an increase in the reliability of the switches in general (with the obvious exception of this dining room light). I also noticed that the lone lamp module I have on the second floor became more communicative when I did this.
So what’s the deal?
Thanks for any help in advance.