Use a switch as a scene controller?

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#1

I have 2 scenes set up and I would like to use a regular zwave light switch to control the scenes.
I personally use UPB at my house, the Vera is at my mothers. Coming from UPB I can set a switch to send a ‘link’ then set any other switch (or any UPB device) to be controlled by that link.
What I want to do is have the zwave switchs “on” function activate one scene. Then use the “off” to activate another.
I don’t see a way to do this in Vera, and I know that there are zwave scene controllers for this, but I was wondering if anyone else has done this yet?

#2

Can’t you make a scene to be activated by a trigger from a device, in your case the switch? You can do this for on and off .

-new scene
-trigger : the device to be used as a trigger and in which state
-LUUP code to activate the other scene

 luup.call_action("urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:HomeAutomationGateway1", "RunScene", {SceneNum = "scenenumber"}, 0)

-and the same for the off-mode.

That should work I think.

Cor

#3

You will want to make sure your switch supports the hail function…see here http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php?topic=2114.0
Otherwise the scenes won’t run reliably as the controller (Vera) won’t know that the switch was toggled until it polls the device…which can take some time.

#4

Or it’s called the instant status is the following table:

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