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Is there an ETA on 5.03? Is it likely to be more stable than 5.02? So I ended up going with the "Repeat 20 Brighten" which mostly works fine. However occasionally one or more of my lights will end up at 99% and not 100% or 1% and not 0%. Is it possible that the brighten and dim functions on my dimmers: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006LQFHN2/ref=twister_B017SOX4L2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 is non deterministic? That is to say is it completely random whether a dim executed by ZWave command actually dims by 2% or 3% for example?

Thanks for all the help. I'm not running anything mission critical here (just my exterior lights), so in order to get to the 1% increment solution (it's become a bit of a white whale for me) I'll probably just upgrade to 5.02.

So once the 'Time Is Sunset - 30 minutes' trigger becomes true, there is no way for it to become false again say for example when time becomes not 'Sunset - 30 minutes' but 'Sunset - 29 minutes'?

One more dumb question. I've set up an OutsideDimmerValue variable. However I can't find any way in the GUI (4.3.26) to set the value of my dimmer to the value of OutsideDimmerValue. To be honest I think I'd rather just enter these programs free form. Is that a possibility?

I was thinking of something like this, thanks. Unfortunately brighten on my dimmer brightens not by one, but by 6%. So, if I wanted to brighten in 1% increments I assume I will need to use a variable. What are the advantages (if any) of defining 'Fade Up Exterior' as its own program and not just define the commands directly in the 'Almost Sunset' then block? Also, what is the threading model of the ISY? If I'm in the middle of running Fade Up Exterior will other triggers continue to be evaluated and executed?

Thanks for the code! I'll look into that approach. Though I still find the idea of just writing Python code intriguing. The problem with 5.02 (if the while command is only available there) is that its beta software?

I've just installed a bunch of GE Z-Wave dimmers on all my exterior lights: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0035YRCR2?keywords=z%20wave&qid=1454727730&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1&srs=13584212011 What I would like to do is have them come on in a series of say 60 steps between 30 minutes before and 30 minutes after sunset. Similarly I'd like to have them turn off in a series of say 60 steps between 30 minutes before and 30 minutes after sunrise. Now of course I could do this by implementing 60 programs that trigger between -30 and +30 minutes of sunrise and sunset, but that's obviously gross. Thankfully, I just discovered today that there exist a couple of pyhton APIs: ISY Python LIbrary PyISY This leads to a couple of questions: 1) Does there exist something in the "native" ISY console that would make this task less gross than what I've described? 2) What is the status of these python libraries? Are they actively developed? Are they roughly equivalent in features? 3) Should I develop something like the progressive dim i proposed, would it be possible to get that triggered (using the sunrise\sunset variables) from the "native" ISY development environment? Thanks!