New user since Saturday 20/26 with a question.

[Melor]

Hello and thanks for all the good posts. Having read them I have been able to setup my ISY to work with my existing switches and modules. I am very impressed with the hardware and software! The hardest set of programs I have written have been to turn a hot water recirculating pump on and off at prescribed times and have it's status mirrored in a KPL button light. What made it hard is that if the pump was off and someone wanted instant hot water pressing the button must turn on the pump, but turn it off after an hour. I was very pleased to see it work... so far...

 

So on to my question!

 

Given that Halloween is coming up, I would like to take the 5 dimmer switches that control the lighting on the front of my house and have the brightness slowly ramp up and down, preferably between 20 and 60 percent continuously while the kids are out trick-or-treating. I would like them to ramp up and down over a period of a few seconds and not have them all in synchrony. Any ideas? I have been testing my program to do this on my kitchen lights and the effect is pretty lame. Hopefully someone will have a great idea that will put mine to shame.

 

 

This is the program I am using now. All the scenes this references have a ramp rate of 8.5 seconds.

 

If

On Never

From 8:45:00AM

For 1 hour

 

Then

Repeat Every 0 seconds

Set Scene 'sc Crazy Overhead' On

Wait 2 seconds

Set Scene 'sc Crazy Sink' On

Wait 2 seconds

Set Scene 'sc Crazy Undercabinets' On

Wait 2 seconds

Set Scene 'sc Crazy Overhead' Off

Wait 2 seconds

Set Scene 'sc Crazy Sink' Off

Wait 2 seconds

Set Scene 'sc Crazy Undercabinets' Off

Wait 2 seconds

 

Else

- No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')

 

 

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

 

Paul

 

ps. Also, if there is a better way of starting and stopping the program without setting the time "IF" the way I do, I wouldn't mind hearing about that either.

 

PJ

[Melor]

This is V2 and it looks a little better. The difference is that I stagger the on/off cycles a bit. Still not quite as random as I would like.

 

Paul

 

 

 

If

On Never

From 8:45:00AM

For 1 hour

 

Then

Repeat Every 0 seconds

Set Scene 'sc Crazy Overhead' On

Wait 2 seconds

Set Scene 'sc Crazy Sink' Off

Wait 2 seconds

Set Scene 'sc Crazy Undercabinets' On

Wait 2 seconds

Set Scene 'sc Crazy Overhead' Off

Wait 2 seconds

Set Scene 'sc Crazy Sink' On

Wait 2 seconds

Set Scene 'sc Crazy Undercabinets' Off

Wait 2 seconds

 

Else

- No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')

[Sub-Routine]

LOL, I've been playing with the family room lights. I have to wait until the weekend is over to tweak it more.

 

I didn't put in any Conditions, I plan to Run it manually.

 

Here is what I have been playing with. Each Scene has all the lights in it, some at 0%, some at 28%, etc. I also use different ramp rates. The Fade commands are another ramp rate.

 

I was thinking of lightning so I use the FastOn and then the lights begin to dim to the scene levels.

 

If
  - No Conditions - (To add one, press 'Schedule' or 'Condition')

Then
       Repeat Every  45 seconds
          Set Scene 'Halloween Dim' Fast On
          Set Scene 'Halloween Dim' On
          Wait  13 seconds
          Set Scene 'Halloween Dim' Fast On
          Set Scene 'Halloween Dim' On
          Wait  13 seconds
          Set Scene 'Halloween Dim' Fast On
          Set Scene 'Halloween Dim' On
          Wait  13 seconds
          Set Scene 'Halloween Dim' Fast On
          Set Scene 'Halloween Dim' Fade Down
          Wait  2 seconds
          Set Scene 'Halloween Dim' Fast On
          Wait  2 seconds
          Set Scene 'Halloween Dim' Fade Stop
          Set Scene 'Halloween Default' On
          Wait  15 seconds

Else
  - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')

 

I did create another Scene, Halloween Bright, that I will mix in somewhere.

 

Rand