Grouping devices

[jca001]

I have a 6 button KeypadLinc dimmer. I wanted to group 3 of the buttons to be mutually exclusive. It seem you can only select all, at least A - D.

 

Then KeypadLinc is named (Living Room Light) and the buttons are (Living Room Key A) through D. These are all listed as individual items under My Lighting. If I select any one of the Key names and right click, and then select Group devices, it groups all 4 of them and makes them sub trees under Living Room Light.

 

I can ungroup them and they become individual items under My Lighting again.

 

If they are grouped or not, if I select one of them and then select Mutual Exclusive Button at the bottom of the screen I get a list that contains Living Room Light and the Living Room Key A through D, plus 2 scene item I do not have defined (Mutually Exclusive Buttons 1 and 2). The options to select then are OK, Cancel and Reset.

 

I can not figure out what selecting Reset does or what else can be done with the list.

 

Also if the buttons are grouped and show as sub trees, I can right click on one of them and it has the option to Group Devices. I tried it and it appears to not really do anything. I would think Group Device should not be listed or if it is and you select it, it should give and warning error.

[Sub-Routine]

Hi JCA,

 

Please see this Wiki article concerning Mutually Exclusive buttons: ISY-99i/ISY-26_INSTEON:Linking_a_KeypadLinc#What_are_Mutually_Exclusive_Buttons.

 

In short, drag the 3 buttons you want as MutEx into one of the scenes in the window. Reset removes all MutEx settings.

 

Rand

 

I have a 6 button KeypadLinc dimmer. I wanted to group 3 of the buttons to be mutually exclusive. It seem you can only select all, at least A - D.

 

Then KeypadLinc is named (Living Room Light) and the buttons are (Living Room Key A) through D. These are all listed as individual items under My Lighting. If I select any one of the Key names and right click, and then select Group devices, it groups all 4 of them and makes them sub trees under Living Room Light.

 

I can ungroup them and they become individual items under My Lighting again.

 

If they are grouped or not, if I select one of them and then select Mutual Exclusive Button at the bottom of the screen I get a list that contains Living Room Light and the Living Room Key A through D, plus 2 scene item I do not have defined (Mutually Exclusive Buttons 1 and 2). The options to select then are OK, Cancel and Reset.

 

I can not figure out what selecting Reset does or what else can be done with the list.

 

Ah, a bug for sure. Thank you.

 

Rand

 

Also if the buttons are grouped and show as sub trees, I can right click on one of them and it has the option to Group Devices. I tried it and it appears to not really do anything. I would think Group Device should not be listed or if it is and you select it, it should give and warning error.

[jca001]

Rand:

 

Thanks for the quick reply. I will have to try it when I get home.

 

So exactly what is Grouping Devices used for?

[Sub-Routine]

Hello Jack,

 

Grouping Devices allows you to collapse multi-button controllers on the tree.