Adjust Ramp Rate with Program

[cksedg]

I know similar questions to mine have been asked in this forum, but I can't figure out what I'm doing.

I have a lamp which is the only device in a scene called "Lamp Scene." At a certain time of night, I want a program to change the ramp rate to 5.0 minutes and dim the lamp to 25%; then change the ramp rate back to 2.0 seconds. I have tried doing it with changing the scene ramp rate and with changing the device ramp rate; but no success. It either doesn't dim at all, or dims at the 2.0 second rate. Can someone give me the right commands to use in the program?

Thanks!

[gzahar]

I know similar questions to mine have been asked in this forum, but I can't figure out what I'm doing.
I have a lamp which is the only device in a scene called "Lamp Scene." At a certain time of night, I want a program to change the ramp rate to 5.0 minutes and dim the lamp to 25%; then change the ramp rate back to 2.0 seconds. I have tried doing it with changing the scene ramp rate and with changing the device ramp rate; but no success. It either doesn't dim at all, or dims at the 2.0 second rate. Can someone give me the right commands to use in the program?
Thanks!

Not sure, but would try this.

If
from time to time + 6 minutes

Then
Set lamp device ramp rate to 5 min
Wait 5-10 seconds (may need time for RR to get programmed)
Dim lamp device to 25%

Else
Set lamp RR to 2 sec.

Don’t think you need to use scenes.


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[cksedg]

Thanks so much for the suggestion. Unfortunately, after the 10 second wait, it just dims the lamp to 25% at the 2.0 second ramp rate. When I look at the status of the lamp module, it shows that it has changed to the 5.0 minute rate, but it still dims rapidly.

You wrote "Dim" lamp device, but that only dims it one time (about three percentage points). I used "ON 25%." No luck so far!

Thanks,

Craig

[cksedg]

Just did some experimenting. I changed the wait time to one minute and everything worked correctly! I guess it takes longer than I thought to actually write the change to the module. I never would have figured it out without the "wait" suggestion, so thank you very much, gzahar!

[CDeschamps]

I need to do exactly the same thing, but I wonder is it good to write to the device every day ? I tought that it was the isy controller that was controlling that and not the device.

Is writing a update to my device 2x a day (to restore the previous 2sec) is going to shorten the life of my device? I'm pretty sure there is a limited amount of time we can write to the device..

any advice?

[CDeschamps]

I just did some test and I found that if you create a scene, Setup to Insteon, On Level 100% and Ramp Rate 5 minutes, the device remain to the default 100% and ramp rate 2.0 seconds. 
Then in the program I can set the scene to On base on my schedule and voila, it works. 
The write to the device only happen when the scene is created but not on every schedule. So no need for the wait and no need to write back the default ramp rate. 

[larryllix]

4 hours ago, CDeschamps said:

I need to do exactly the same thing, but I wonder is it good to write to the device every day ? I tought that it was the isy controller that was controlling that and not the device.

Is writing a update to my device 2x a day (to restore the previous 2sec) is going to shorten the life of my device? I'm pretty sure there is a limited amount of time we can write to the device..

any advice?

I have been doing it for years on most of my devices. It's not a problem for modern memories with wear and tear management.

[larryllix]

2 hours ago, CDeschamps said:

I just did some test and I found that if you create a scene, Setup to Insteon, On Level 100% and Ramp Rate 5 minutes, the device remain to the default 100% and ramp rate 2.0 seconds. 
Then in the program I can set the scene to On base on my schedule and voila, it works. 
The write to the device only happen when the scene is created but not on every schedule. So no need for the wait and no need to write back the default ramp rate. 

Scenes are preset values and each device can hold about 250 different scenes. When you send an On, level = xxx% you are not triggering a scene in the device.

To cause the scene/preset to become effective you must turn on that scene and every device containing that scene ID/Link will respond to it's preset values.