Cannot set virtual dimmer level with REST command

[Guy Lavoie]

I love this plugin, very handy for several things. Now I'm trying to use it to set a touch lamp to one of 3 levels by program statements that look at a virtual dimmer level setting. Works great if I manually set the virtual dimmer level in admin console. But if I set the level through a REST command (eg: http://admin:<passwd>@192.168.0.xx:8080/rest/nodes/n006_90/cmd/DON/128) nothing happens. Turns on and off through REST ok, but setting level doesn't. Any ideas?

Thanks!

[Guy Lavoie]

35 minutes ago, Guy Lavoie said:

I love this plugin, very handy for several things. Now I'm trying to use it to set a touch lamp to one of 3 levels by program statements that look at a virtual dimmer level setting. Works great if I manually set the virtual dimmer level in admin console. But if I set the level through a REST command (eg: http://admin:<passwd>@192.168.0.xx:8080/rest/nodes/n006_90/cmd/DON/128) nothing happens. Turns on and off through REST ok, but setting level doesn't. Any ideas?

Thanks!

I did find a workaround, since setting the dim level does work under program control. So I have my REST command set a state variable, and a program track the variable to set the dim level.

Would be nice it if worked directly. 😀

 

[sjenkins]

DON and DOF are for full on and off

setDim will set the level so to use your example:

http://admin:<passwd>@192.168.0.xx:8080/rest/nodes/n006_90/cmd/setDim/128

 

Edited Tuesday at 01:33 AM by sjenkins

[Guy Lavoie]

Interesting. setDim isn't mentioned anywhere in the wiki on the REST commands. Funny thing is that the "cmd/DON/128" format works fine with Insteon switches.

I'll try that tomorrow, thanks!

[sjenkins]

This is the first time I’ve gotten a REST question on this plugin. You are correct it’s not in the docs, my memory was fuzzy enough I had to pull up the program to remember the command. You won’t find these kind of things in the WIKI for a plugin only in the config help or here on the forums. 
I can add it to the TODO to make it more match the norm, but would not remove this command as it would be a breaking change for someone. 
let me know how it goes!