David_31262

Thanks for all the help and comments from everyone. I'm an old FPGA/ASIC designer and frequently have to unarchive and support old designs. I'm kinda with larryllix in that programs may be easier to bring back up and understand down the road. Scenes seem to have an advantage in that the isy is not needed to make the scene work (is setting up multiple switches as a 3-way switch basically a basic use of a scene?). lilyoyo1: Toggle mode. Hmmm, maybe I should go back to toggle as a way to abort and turn off the fan early. But, in my case, the big OFF button can also do that. If anything I'd rather re-hitting an A-D button reset the timer to the initial value. kclenden: Thanks for the comment that the separate "OFF" Scene to get the button lights off is not needed. I'll give that a shot -> no point to the added complexity.

Wow, THANKS, lilyoyo1. That's a huge amount of help. I got something working, though I may tweak it some more. I've already worked a lot with programs (timer based events, so I guess I'm just more used to being in that interface). I originally came over from the (now defunct) house linc software so the "program" method seemed famaliar. At the moment I'm leaning more towards program control. Here's all the steps I did: 1) Install the 2487S KeypadLinc and link it to the isy994. 2) In the "Main" tab select the KeypadLinc. Select "Buttons Toggle Mode" and set all buttons to "Non-Toggle [On]" Select "Buttons Grouping" and and "Reset" all groupings (probably not needed for a new switch) 3) Create two scenes in support of the button A Timer for setting button lights on and off "Scn WGF Timer A - ON" Add all 4 Buttons as responders Select the Scene Title and in the main windows set the Button A action to ON Set the buttons B-D actions to Off "Scn WGF Timer A - OFF" Add all 4 Buttons as responders Select the Scene Title and in the main windows set all buttn actions to OFF 4) Under programs I created the program "A - On 1 Hour" as follows: IF (And/Control) "Switch A" is switched On THEN Set "Scn WGF Timer A - ON" On (scene to turn on the A button light and others off) Set "Whole House Fan" ON (main load swtich) Wait 1 hour Set "Whole House Fan" OFF (main load swtich) Set "Scn WGF Timer A - OFF" On (scene to turn off all the button lights)

Setting up my first Keypadlinc and it's a bit confusing. What events can trigger programs and what must be controlled by a scene (the sub button lights?). I want to use the A-D buttons to turn the fan on for different time intervals. There was an old thread that did the same thing, but the discussion was mosly around gettin the lights to work correctly (and the thread is closed so I can't ask there). (https://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/10782-keypadlinc-2487s/) I've been trying different things and will probably get there eventually, but it's eating a lot of time. Perhaps someone can give me the basic steps. Example, can I simply us the "A" button to fire off a program ("Turn on Fan", "Wait 2 hours", "Turn off fan", "Turn off keypad light"). Or must I use a scene to turn on the fan, then have the turn on event start the timer program? Can the scene start the timer? I found the instructions for setting up a fanlinc, but this is different since those don't involve any program usage. Any steps (or maybe screen shots) the community would provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. PS: Spent way too much on modules during the Labor Day sale.... Now I have to figure out what to do with them. :)