drmark12pa Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Is there an easy way to use Composer to return the LED color on the buttons of the newer Wireless Keypad Dimmers to reflect an on/off status of some light or scene or anything?What I'm trying to do is basically turn off all the LEDs when my security system arms ("Set all LEDs on Keypad to black") but then when the security system is disarmed, is there a specific command that resets the color to reflect say a light? (ie the top button on this multibutton dimmer is to turn off my deck lights. The button is green when they are on, red when off. So how do I reflect the light status without multiple lines of programming such as IF LIGHT IS ON vs. IF LIGHT IS OFF)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Lowe Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 just set the the led current color to black on your alarm arming. On light level change the leds will revert back to their programmed defaults. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Lowe Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 can also add conditional on light level changes that if system is armed set color back to black Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drmark12pa Posted March 26, 2015 Author Share Posted March 26, 2015 I'm trying to find a way for the LEDs to return to their normal state without turning the light on or off after disarming. I have the LEDs just go black when alarm is on but each and every condition has to be programmed when the alarm is off. There doesn't appear to be an easy way for Control4 to automatically return the lights to their default pattern. It appears that fairly laborious programming of conditional statements has to be added for each and every switch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Lowe Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 doing every switch will not have to be such a big task. Simply create a macro and put all of your programming and conditions there. now simply activate the macro based on what ever triggers you want. Alarm arm disarm, light level changes. Easy to edit in one place and easy to add additional triggers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drmark12pa Posted March 26, 2015 Author Share Posted March 26, 2015 doing every switch will not have to be such a big task. Simply create a macro and put all of your programming and conditions there. now simply activate the macro based on what ever triggers you want. Alarm arm disarm, light level changes. Easy to edit in one place and easy to add additional triggers.I've never done a macro before... can you provide some insight?If I'm only using the events for alarm on or off, wouldn't it be the same using it under the event or using a macro? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Lowe Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 macros are done under agents. Create a macrothen head to programmingselect the macro on the right. add in all of your programming. then find your trigger on the righton the left find and activate the macro. still makes it easier for changes down the road even if its the two triggers if you need to make changes you have to do both versus just making changes to the one macro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drmark12pa Posted March 26, 2015 Author Share Posted March 26, 2015 That makes total sense so there isn't a redundancy in repeating "x" number of lines of programming! Thanks for the tip! I may be able to incorporate it in to other aspects of my programming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Lowe Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 if you have the macro being activated on triggers happening at the same time. cant hurt anything unless you have toggles, but that would be dependent on the situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drmark12pa Posted March 27, 2015 Author Share Posted March 27, 2015 One thing I do find confusing is the multiple LED states for a light (Top LED on, Top LED off, Bottom LED on, Bottom LED off) which shouldn't have a color selection pop up if they are supposed to go to their default On/Off colors. So far, I can't find an easier way to return a simple light switch to it's normal LED pattern after LEDs are turn off without using a function (based on my pattern of using red and green to indicate on/off and on the top/bottom LED) such as: IF LIGHT ON- top led black- bottom led greenIF LIGHT OFF-top led red-bottom led black this seems like alot of programming just to turn one LED back on a light switch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucecampbell Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 Perhaps if you stop thinking of the LED's having 'default' colours, it may help.Once the dimmer is installed and live, it just has current settings, not current and default.Therefore each time you want the colours to change, you must set them. I'm also thinking you may not be understanding exactly how the Top LED on/off is working. Top LED on colour is the colour the Top LED will display when the dimmer is onTop LED off colour is the colour the Top LED will display when the dimmer is off if you want the top LED to be red when the light is off, and the bottom green when the light is on, then set all 4 options as such in a macro:Top LED on = blackTop LED off = redBottom LED on = greenBottom LED off = black Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drmark12pa Posted March 30, 2015 Author Share Posted March 30, 2015 Perhaps if you stop thinking of the LED's having 'default' colours, it may help.Once the dimmer is installed and live, it just has current settings, not current and default.Therefore each time you want the colours to change, you must set them. I'm also thinking you may not be understanding exactly how the Top LED on/off is working. Top LED on colour is the colour the Top LED will display when the dimmer is onTop LED off colour is the colour the Top LED will display when the dimmer is off if you want the top LED to be red when the light is off, and the bottom green when the light is on, then set all 4 options as such in a macro:Top LED on = blackTop LED off = redBottom LED on = greenBottom LED off = blackWhat I'm getting at is that under each lights properties in the MONITORING tab you can set the default top and bottom colors on any switch to what they default to in an on/off state. However, when you go into PROGRAMMING, then you have to select the color of the top and bottom LEDs depending on the state of the light. I was hoping there was an easier command to return light switch to it's programmed "default" colors. It's seems like overkill to to have 4 lines of programming to light up one LED. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CFUG Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 What you call overkill I see as flexibility. There are no "default" colors other than what the device powers-up with out of the box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucecampbell Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 What I'm getting at is that under each lights properties in the MONITORING tab you can set the default top and bottom colors on any switch to what they default to in an on/off state. However, when you go into PROGRAMMING, then you have to select the color of the top and bottom LEDs depending on the state of the light. I was hoping there was an easier command to return light switch to it's programmed "default" colors. It's seems like overkill to to have 4 lines of programming to light up one LED.This is understandable, however, if there was a 'default' this would still need to be set/programmed somewhere, and you would still have to program to revert the LED's to 'default'Logically this is no different to setting the colours in a Macro and calling the Macro in programming - would be the same number of lines of code. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CFUG Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Try Ryan's unsupported utility. Maybe that'll work for you. Honestly, I can't see the problem here other than a little time spent roll'n your own code in CHE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eggzlot Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Not sure Ryan's utility works with latest lighting. Was not working for me and in the forum chat a few weeks ago he said it was not tested on the latest lighting products. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CFUG Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 ^Yeah, I don't know. I don't mess with things like that anyway. Almost every lighting control here is under programmatic LED control. Hours of set-up but this is what you do if you want the feedback visualized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Lowe Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 creating a macro is going to be best here. as you can drive it with multiple triggers and keep all your programming however intensive in one place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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