Jgdavis14 Posted January 31, 2015 Posted January 31, 2015 I have a scene for candles that we put in the windows every Christmas....probably 25 of them. A simple command and a timed program turns their scene all on or off together. Is it possible to have those candles go on with a slight pause between so that they appear to be operated by a person? I want the appearance that someone is actually doing it for security reasons. I know I can write a program for it with a few seconds between each, but was wondering if there would be a more simple program that wouldn't require every unit to be listed.
LeeG Posted January 31, 2015 Posted January 31, 2015 If the candles are powered by dimmers, or at least some of them, the Ramp Rates can be set at different rates so the candles appear to be turned on at different times.
madman Posted January 31, 2015 Posted January 31, 2015 You can turn them on one by one if you don't use a scene. In the program you could have something like: If Something Then Turn Candle 1 on Wait 1 minute Turn Candle 2 on Wait 1 minute Turn Candle 3 on etc...
Teken Posted January 31, 2015 Posted January 31, 2015 What about the random option? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Jgdavis14 Posted February 1, 2015 Author Posted February 1, 2015 Taken: The random option, if I understand it correctly, would apply to the entire scene....... On at 9:00 one day, 9:15, 8:50 etc on other days. But it would apply to the entire scene and all lights would go on at the same time. LeeG: Great Idea with ramp rates, but quite a few of the candles are operated by some older units that don't have that option. Madman; I know that I could do a program but was trying to avoid that as I keep changing what's in the group depending on time of year. Easiest to drag items in and out of a scene. But that is probably the way I'm going to go. Possibly set up several programs that I can enable/disable depending on what I want when.
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