windrockwater Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 So i have a few 3-way lighting links in my house with the latest SWL. I have my ISY connected and running and all SWL are configured in the ISY. I used the manual cross linking method to configure each of the 3-way circuits. Everything seems to work fine. But a few different times i have noticed that in ALL of my 3-way links, the slave devices somehow became unlinked and stopped controlling the lights! I had not used the ISY for any 'restoring', etc. Has anyone else had something like this? Is it possible that the ISY unknowingly deleted my 'manual' cross links on the SWLs? Strange isnt it?
Sub-Routine Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 The danger of manual linking is that if you use the ISY to create new scenes which include those switches the links could be overwritten. If you did not use the ISY to create new scenes for those switches then please phone Smarthome with your concern. Smarthome forum. Thank you, Rand
windrockwater Posted January 21, 2009 Author Posted January 21, 2009 How would i use the ISY to create the cross linking instead of doing it manually? (I looked in the wiki with no luck).
MikeB Posted January 21, 2009 Posted January 21, 2009 If you have not done much programming, I would recommend removing your devices from the ISY, factory resetting them, then re-adding them in. Creating a 3-way circuit is easy. Create a new "scene" on the ISY's Admin Console (call it, for example, 'Kitchen Lights'), then add your switches to the scene as "controllers". Once complete, the switches you added to the scene will be cross-linked.
Sub-Routine Posted January 21, 2009 Posted January 21, 2009 You would create a new Scene and add both switches as Controllers. From the Wiki: Create_a_Scene. But if the switches are defective they will still "lose the links". Rand
windrockwater Posted January 21, 2009 Author Posted January 21, 2009 I do not think the SWLs are defective (well all are not at least). Because i am talking about 3 pairs of SWL (three 3-way circuits). Doubt they all went. So its probably user-error <---me. I did not realize that manual cross linking a master and slave (that are wired together) was the same as placing them in a scene using the ISY.
Sub-Routine Posted January 21, 2009 Posted January 21, 2009 I do not think the SWLs are defective (well all are not at least). Because i am talking about 3 pairs of SWL (three 3-way circuits). Doubt they all went. So its probably user-error <---me. I did not realize that manual cross linking a master and slave (that are wired together) was the same as placing them in a scene using the ISY. No, they shouldn't be wired together. One switch will have the load and the other switch should have it's load wire capped. Yes the ISY makes it easy to create the links and to change the levels and rates in the scene depending on which switch is used. When we enter our kitchen from the dining room that switch turns the lights on bright and fast, using the switch from the family room the lights comes on slower and go to a lower level. Using the ISY it is very easy and allows more options to modify those parameters than using tap linking. Rand
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