Master Dimming Switch

[Silas (Erik Hann)]

Hi everyone, I have a question. I have four lights in my bedroom, each controlled by its own Z-Wave module. In my home automation software (HomeSeer), they appear as four separate lights, as expected. However, I’d like to link all four lights to a master switch in Home Remote. The idea is that when I turn the master device on or off in Home Remote, all four lights will turn on or off together, and the same goes for dimming.

In Alexa, you can create a group called “Master Bedroom” and include all four lights in that group, allowing Alexa to control them simultaneously. Apple HomeKit offers a similar feature by letting you create a master switch that includes all the associated lights.

I haven’t been able to figure out how to do this in Home Remote. Has anyone tried something similar, and if so, how did you set it up?

[gregkinney]

I do that with my ISY hardware. It’s called a scene. Can you create scenes in Homeseer and then be able to access it in HR? I don’t have personal experience with it, but HR also has something called scenes, not sure if it’s the same thing.

Scenes in 3.10.0

You will still use the Clicked EventTrigger. There was an example attached at the top you can look at. In it, you will see that the Clicked EventTrigger in SceneTile.xaml calls a DataAction on the Scene attribute which manually triggers the scene. [image] [image]

[Silas (Erik Hann)]

I can create a static scene, let’s say all lights at 50%, but if I ramp up the master dimmer, the scene will remain static. The lights would not reflect the new value of the master dimmer.

[gregkinney]

I can create a static scene,

Are you referring to a scene in HR or in Homeseer?

[Silas (Erik Hann)]

HomeSeer. Were you referring to HomeRemote

[KalleVC (Kalle)]

There are several ways to realize this. Here is a simple example, but it could definitely be improved:

1. create a toggle switch
2. go to the first event trigger
3. in “Actions” create a DataSetter with the appropriate value for each device you want to control in order to switch it on.
4. for Event select “checked”
5. go to the second event trigger, again add a DataSetter for each device, but this time with the value for switch off.
6. for Event select “unchecked” this time
7. in DataTrigger under Binding, select the first device you want to operate - in Setters under Property “IsChecked” as the value “True”
8. for the second DataTrigger - in Setters for property “IsChecked” as value “False”

I hope it is reasonably understandable
I would have to try out the dimming myself first.
I think a lot is explained in the video tutorial by John

Home Remote Designer 3.0 Trigger Tutorial.

[aa6vh (David GIlmore)]

For myself, I found the best solution in inside of Homeseer itself. I created a virtual device (switch) in Homeseer, that when the switch status changes to “off”, fires off a Homeseer event that will subsequently turn off the real lights.

Now you can turn off that virtual switch from Home Remote (or anywhere else), and your lights will all go off. If you want to only turn off individual lights, you can always address them individually. Simple solution, and works from Home Remote, Alexa, Harmony, or anywhere else you have HA control.

[Silas (Erik Hann)]

Great suggestions. I’ll look into this thank you.