In order to select your device you’ll need to have that device assigned in a room. Then create a scene, add to it an event (Event type: A device is turned on/off; What device?: <your_device>;On or off? (0=off,1=on): ON) and to Commands: set <your_device> like this: Unchanged | after 5 minutes | set level to: xx%
You’ve selected brightness reached and put 100% in the value field. in order to use this you’ll need a Brightness sensor.
Note: This event type will work only if you turn on the light from his own switch. It will not work if you turn it on from dashboard or from a Zwave Wireless Controller.
I got it setup now and it works SOMETIMES :-[
If the device is off and you turn it on, then it does work.
BUT when the light is dimmed and you turn it to full brightness (=on), then it does NOT respond.
Unfortunately, the latter case is the more likely scenario in my application.
I’m using it in a hallway, where the light is set at dim level 33, between sunset and bedtime. However it’s sometimes not bright enough and you’ll touch the light to full on.
What I want Vera to do is, to return brightness to the dimmed level after a set time…
Can this be implemented? ???
HF, Chris.
P.s. I have another hallway to still wire up and would really like this feature to work.
Chris, this should work. In the new firmware >520, note Vera’s time on the location tab, and try messing with the light, noting the time of each instance and which ones fail. Then go to advanced, Logging, and click the button to view the job log. This will tell you all the jobs and which ones worked/failed/etc. Let me know what the resolution is for the job and the error code.
I have seen some dimmable lights that you can only control when they are on full or bright. I remember some debate about this, and someone saying it was due to bad wiring in the home, others blaming the circuitry in the switch. We’ve seen a lot of weird issues like this when you put CFL bulbs on dimmable switches. But the new job log will help debug the cause.
I’ve tried twice to send a new report as follow up on #317, but vera never recovers from: “Sending report, please wait …” Before I flood you guys with duplicate reports, I’ll wait your reply, if either of my two submissions was successful.
In summary, it’s still not working for me. After the upgrade to 523, the light was in dimmed state.
When I pushed the button to full brightness, I saw in the log that vera detected that and a minute later in the log an entry was made to dim the light again, but this never actually reached the light. And the Dashboard reported correctly the full brightness.
From he dashboard I was able to dim the light and this was logged. I then again pushed the light switch to On; again this was logged, but now no further attempts were made to dim the light again.
I then turned the light off via dashboard and then pushed the on light switch. Now the light was delayed dimmed by vera and all was logged as such.
Another Push to Light On, was again not responded to by vera with a delayed dim…
I just got off the phone with Chris. I misunderstood the problem report. It’s actually not a problem, but rather a feature request.
Chris has a light in the hallway that is normally at 25% dim level. Whenever someone needs more light and hits the button to turn it up to 100%, he wants Vera to automatically turn it back to 25% after a few minutes. So, he created a scene “Hall light at 25” and attached the event “Device turned on/off – Hall light”, with a “after x minutes set to 25%”.
The reason this doesn’t work is that the ‘device turned on/off’ event only fires when the devices changes from the ‘off’ (ie 0) to any dim level. So, if the light is off, and someone turns it on (to 1%, 50%, 100% it doesn’t matter), the ‘device turned on’ event is fired. But, since the light was already on, at 25%, turning it up to 100% doesn’t fire any events at all. So there’s no way to have Vera trigger a scene.
The solution is to add another event type “dim level changed”, which lets you put the parameter in, such as >50%, <80%, etc. Then, he can create a scene “hallway light to 25%” that turns the hall light to 25% after 5 minutes, attach the event “hallway light is dimmed > 25%”, and then anytime anybody turns the light up past the default 25% dim level, 5 minutes later Vera will turn it back down to 25%.
One of the reasons why I like this feature is, that I use the Intermatic HA14C switch and it’s easy to turn it up to ON or OFF, but setting a dim level is a bit tricky (especially for the WAF).
Having a programmed ambient light level is good for general use, but there are times, when you want the light just a bit brighter for certain actions. Then it’s nice to tap the light ON and have Vera bring the dim level back after a couple of minutes, so you don’t have to…
