New Sensor Changes in 40

Charlie Pendleton charlie at pendletonweb.com
Tue May 25 10:16:55 EDT 2021


OK, I think I remember you showing me this. I will setup a switch at my desk and see what I get.

What about the dimming part of it, same type of thing?

Best,
Charlie-
On May 25, 2021, 10:14 AM -0400, James Sentman <james at sentman.com>, wrote:
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> Good morning Charlie,
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> Assuming I haven’t busted things still, in that beta version and forward it should work the same way it did with the Vera. You’ll get a single device for the scene controller and you use the ‘on centralScene( theButton, theGesture)’ handler to receive the events.
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> Since the controller is not ZWave you can’t directly link them together, but since you can get all the button pushes into XTension you can just do something like, if theButton = “1” then turnon “the dimmer” color “FF4422” or whatever. You shouldn’t need to do any scripting or work inside the hubitat at all apart from remembering to give XTension permission to control the new unit in the MakerAPI setup.
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> > On May 25, 2021, at 10:09 AM, Charlie Pendleton <charlie at pendletonweb.com> wrote:
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> > I am going to piggy-back onto this thread as I think this question is also applicable...
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> > Using your 6-channel PWM module to control the RGBW strips I am placing throughout the bathroom remodel, I was going to install an Inovelli LZW31-SN (scene control dimmer), until they come out with their 5-channel scene controller.
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> > What I am looking to do is setup the scene controller so that 1 pushed is color A; 2 pushed is color B; 3 pushed, etc. then when each color is on, be able to use the dimmer paddle to bright and dim them (held I think is the right terminology)?
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> > Do I need to setup these scenes in Hubitat somehow to perhaps a virtual device since your controller is not a z-wave device, so that the pushes and holds make it into Xtension for that to do the controlling?
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> > If this is taking the original thread too far into the weeds, I can start another thread… Lemme know.
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> Thanks,
>  James
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