Melor Posted October 26, 2008 Posted October 26, 2008 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 Posted October 26, 2008 Author Posted October 26, 2008 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 Posted October 27, 2008 Posted October 27, 2008 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
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