Wall switch to override dimmer setting?

Other Devices & Integrations Lighting & Load Control
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Hi,

I am new to Z-wave and have just bought a Vera Plus controller with an Aeon Multisensor 6, a Qubino Flush Dimmer Plus and a Qubino Flush Relay x2 Plus.

I have had chance to play about with the settings and scenes and have had a little try with PLEG.

What I want to do is to control my bathroom lights so at night the lights come on about 20% brightness when the multisensor picks up movement (i.e. kids going to the toilet in the night). I have managed to get a scene set up to do the basics of this so the light comes on at 20% when movement is detected, and off again when movement stops, I just need to fine tune it with durations, times etc. So this part of it is just about there.

I have the bathroom light pull cord connected to the I1 input on the dimmer and configured the dimmer so it knows its a bistable switch. This all works fine and I can use it to turn the light on and off manually.

The problem I have is that I want to be able to override the ‘dimmed’ lights at night with the pull cord switch if I actually want the lights to be on at 100% brightness.

I cannot work out any way to do this. If the light has been turned on my the Multisensor picking up movement when I pull the pull cord it turns the lights off. I then pull it again and they turn back on to the same dimmed setting it was before.

How can I set it up to change the brightness straight to 100% brightness when the pull cord is pulled, so as to override the dimmer?

Please bear with me as I am new to Vera but learning fast.

Thanks,

Guy

(Btw, the relay module is not part of this circuit, I will be using that to control the extractor fan as a separate project)

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In order to control the dim level with the local switch you’ll need to replace the bistable switch with a momentary one.

The other option - the one I know you’ll opt for even though I hate it - is to create a “secret knock” for full brightness using PLEG. Essentially you’ll use PLEG’s progression capability to detect a rapid On-Off-On and then set dim level to 100%.
FullBright: (SwitchOn; SwitchOff; SwitchOn) < 0:30

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Thanks for the response Z-Waver.

I think I’ll go for the monetary switch anyway as I have picked up that is the way things should be done and its no big issue to swap the current pull cord out for one.

What I am struggling with at present with my PLEG and Vera scenes is how do I set up the switch as a trigger? I can do it fine with the motion sensor, but what trigger do I select for the switch connected to I1 of the dimmer?

I have;
Dimmer - Bathroom which is the dimmer module
_Dimmable Light
and also have _Generic IO and _Generic IO1

The others (Fan Relay - Bathroom, _Appliance Module and _Appliance Module 1) are all related to the Qubino relay I assume?

Sorry for my lack of knowledge on this, but we all have to start somewhere!!!

Thanks

Guy