Simulanting Instant Status for Evolve Switches and Dimmers

Other Devices & Integrations Lighting & Load Control
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Hello Folks,

My evolve dimmers and switches is lating to report their status to vera3.

someone has created some scene to run or luup code to check the status of this kind of device and update in vera ?

thanks !

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On/Off Switch Comparison Chart
Dimming Switch Comparison chart.

As you see on the above charts, Evolve switches lack the instant status feature. Without this feature, the only way for Vera to know the status of the switch is for Vera to poll the switch.

You could reduce the polling interval. But, this will increase your Z-Wave network traffic/load and you will still have a noticeable lag/delay between when the switch is activated and when Vera is aware of it. If the lag/delay is unacceptable for your application, you must replace the switch with one that supports instant update.

I’m pretty sure that you already knew this. Sorry.

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Thanks !

I bought a lot of that. LSM-15 and LRM-AS

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Also, depending on how quickly you need things to react, but if there’s only a few critical switches, you could poll them explicitly in a scene, every [font=courier]N[/font] seconds.

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Oti@

some luup code to poll device in your sleeves ?

thanks !

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I do. But you can use the graphical scene editor. Use a schedule. Use the [tt]Advanced[/tt] tab to find the [tt]Poll[/tt] action.

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Sorry Oti@
nothing related to poll the device in advanced tab of the scene.

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Did you ‘Pick a device’ / added it, then tried selecting the [tt]Poll[/tt] action?

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You can also put the Poll command in Action associated with a Scheduled PLEG INPUT (at any repeat interval you want).

Same technique:

[ol][li]Edit and Action (or a Scene)[/li]
[li]Where it says: Pick a device Select the device you want to poll. … then Add[/li]
[li]Edit the newly added entry … Where is says: Please Select select the Poll action[/li]
[li]Finish[/li]
[li]Then SAVE your changes.[/ol]

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@ RichardTSchaefer is it possible for PLEG to poll a switch (eg: a CA600) and wait for the poll to complete before continuing with the rest of the condition evaluation? I believe this would allow PLEG to evaluate the condition of a switch that does not report real time status accurately (for example, if i want to set a light to 50% on a motion sensor trigger only if the light is not already on – and the lightswitch is a CA600). Thanks.

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I do not have a pre-evaluation action. And even if I did I am not sure it would help.
I do not think a POLL request is synchronous. As a result even if I polled right before the
evaluation … I would not know how long to wait before the results are valid.

You can run an action connected to a time to request a poll on a regular interval … put most devices have a POLL interval … so that would be equivalent.