Scenes to ramp down or up lights over a long period of timeq

I’m used to using other high end home automation systems such as Lutron HomeWorks where you can ramp up the outside lights from 20% to 80% over 2 hours starting at sunset. That was an example, but it could be anything like that. I have looked into writing this code, but there’s no way I can figure this out. So does someone have something like this or is it easy enough to cut and paste with a tiny edit from already on Vera2?
Btw… What is the cost of hiring someone to write code for the company I work for per hour or the job or just plain old cash?

Based on several other threads, it seems that MCV and Leviton have started talking, and MCV will be implementing more control of the vizia devices, and I imagine this will be one of the first issues addressed, since this is available through the leviton ThinkStick currently…

See this thread: http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php?topic=2386.0