LBW Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 Hi....I am trying to program a button that can dim a lighting scene. I want to be able to press and hold the button as the lighting scene dims higher and lower. How can I do that? Have asked my dealer and they are not sure. Can someone help? Thanks!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonic30101 Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 Is this a keypad button? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LBW Posted October 13, 2017 Author Share Posted October 13, 2017 Yes a 6 button keypad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lippavisual Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 Bind the button to the top and bottom button links of the lighting scene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 7 hours ago, LBW said: Hi....I am trying to program a button that can dim a lighting scene. I want to be able to press and hold the button as the lighting scene dims higher and lower. How can I do that? Have asked my dealer and they are not sure. Can someone help? Thanks!! You need a new dealer! This is C4 101! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddy.trochez Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 OP, Create an Advanced Lighting scene and create a toggle scene for it by pressing the "Create Default" button in the Toggle Scene setting (The Off scene). Note: When creating the default scene; if you don't see it listed, press F5 to refresh the project. 2.10 has a bug where variables or scenes will not display and a refresh will fix it. In bindings, bind the keypad button to the Toggle connection of the On scene. Press and hold will now raise or lower the scene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LBW Posted October 14, 2017 Author Share Posted October 14, 2017 So all of these steps have been followed. I spoke with control 4 and they said to follow the same steps. They did it in their office and it worked. I am using 2.91 and have the dimmers from 2012. I also have Alexa integration. But still I cannot get a button to press and hold dim an advanced lighting scene. Any additional thoughts or things to try? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcovach Posted October 14, 2017 Share Posted October 14, 2017 16 hours ago, eddy.trochez said: 2.10 has a bug where variables or scenes will not display and a refresh will fix it. A little unrelated to the OP but in 2.10 sometimes a refresh doesn't work to get the newly created variable to display in the Variables Agent until exiting out of Composer and re-starting again. Hopefully that gets fixed soon. I really like the new variables agent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuner Posted November 2, 2017 Share Posted November 2, 2017 On 2017-10-14 at 5:17 AM, LBW said: So all of these steps have been followed. I spoke with control 4 and they said to follow the same steps. They did it in their office and it worked. I am using 2.91 and have the dimmers from 2012. I also have Alexa integration. But still I cannot get a button to press and hold dim an advanced lighting scene. Any additional thoughts or things to try? If your dimmers are from 2012 then it sounds like you have legacy devices which do not support light scene dimming. Your dealer likely tested this feature with latest generation lighting devices which were released mid 2013. You can bind your advanced lighting scenes to any keypad including legacy 3/6 button devices as described above, but only current generation dimmers will respond. If you have any Legacy dimmers in the light scene they will not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyknight Posted November 2, 2017 Share Posted November 2, 2017 On 10/14/2017 at 7:15 AM, dcovach said: A little unrelated to the OP but in 2.10 sometimes a refresh doesn't work to get the newly created variable to display in the Variables Agent until exiting out of Composer and re-starting again. Hopefully that gets fixed soon. I really like the new variables agent You need to refresh the PROJECT (not refresh navigator) - and it IS fixed with a later release of Composer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THawes Posted November 8, 2017 Share Posted November 8, 2017 On 11/2/2017 at 4:48 AM, SMAT said: If your dimmers are from 2012 then it sounds like you have legacy devices which do not support light scene dimming. This. I ran into the same issue as I have a mix of old and new lighting. This does not appear to be supported on old lighting, unless someone has a workaround that I can't find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyknight Posted November 8, 2017 Share Posted November 8, 2017 1 hour ago, THawes said: This. I ran into the same issue as I have a mix of old and new lighting. This does not appear to be supported on old lighting, unless someone has a workaround that I can't find. Older dimmers are indeed NOT supported to do this (if memory serves, it has to do with the limited available memory as advanced lighting scenes require the device itself to store info, but as said, that's off of memory from several years ago). ONLY 'gen3' or panelized lighting can do this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMHarman Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 Considering the two stage upgrade process of the older dimmers from zigbee to zigbee pro with the mini app middle step this memory capacity makes complete sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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