drmark12pa Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 In adding and updating some programming, I'm curious how most people set their button behavior. My most typical room buttons are for lights (green on, red off) and music (yellow on, blue off). In looking at the Properties one can select for LED Behavior, there are 3 options: FOLLOW CONNECTION, PUSH/RELEASE, and PROGRAMMED. I typically have used PROGRAMMED and then use a macro to change button colors which seems to be the easiest way I have found. However, I'm wondering if the FOLLOW CONNECTION would be more efficient. I assume this has to be changed in Composer Express or Pro to link it to a specific "load"? Any ideas on the best way to use this LED Behavior setting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livitup Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 Follow connection is for tracking an individual lighting load or an advanced lighting scene. You're correct that a dealer needs to make these links for you - they bind a scene or a load to the switch via Composer Pro. I've never tried to bind it to anything other than a lighting load - I don't think it's possible to bind a button to music or other statuses. For that you need to continue to use programming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 All have their uses. Typically, I use Follow Connection for most of my lights as this requires no programming and is quick and easy. I use push / release for alarm panic buttons. They stay red normally (ie when released) and go black (off) when pushed. I use programming for music, blinds and other such things and in complicated lighting scenarios anywhere where I have more than 2 LED colours) or where I don’t always want the LED to show even though the light is on (e.g. I don’t have the LED activate if lights come on due to motion sensors). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Lowe Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 17 hours ago, livitup said: I've never tried to bind it to anything other than a lighting load - I don't think it's possible to bind a button to music or other statuses. For that you need to continue to use programming. actually the new room control driver allows you to make bindings to a lot of multi media control. Really cool driver for dealers to make programming faster and more efficient. however it has its downsides too. Right now shuffle is not available for pandora. driver bug that is being worked on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Lowe Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 On 1/17/2019 at 8:29 AM, drmark12pa said: In adding and updating some programming, I'm curious how most people set their button behavior. My most typical room buttons are for lights (green on, red off) and music (yellow on, blue off). In looking at the Properties one can select for LED Behavior, there are 3 options: FOLLOW CONNECTION, PUSH/RELEASE, and PROGRAMMED. I typically have used PROGRAMMED and then use a macro to change button colors which seems to be the easiest way I have found. However, I'm wondering if the FOLLOW CONNECTION would be more efficient. I assume this has to be changed in Composer Express or Pro to link it to a specific "load"? Any ideas on the best way to use this LED Behavior setting? I typically encourage using push/release for any buttons that are programmed. this at least gives the user the feeling that the button is noticed that it is pressed even if the programming does not work still gives real time feed back. then through programming the colors can be changed to indicate what has happened after the button press. Follow connection is more for faster programming for dealers and can be imitated through programming Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livitup Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 On 1/18/2019 at 1:36 PM, Matt Lowe said: actually the new room control driver allows you to make bindings to a lot of multi media control. Really cool driver for dealers to make programming faster and more efficient. however it has its downsides too. Right now shuffle is not available for pandora. driver bug that is being worked on. 100% correct. I forgot about that - I need to get in the habit of doing more with that driver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drmark12pa Posted January 20, 2019 Author Share Posted January 20, 2019 I imagine a risk of using bindings is as a typical user you cant see these or change them so if you try changing with programming you may have phantom operations occurring? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msgreenf Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 Bindings are the fastest most efficient way to work Sent from my Pixel 3 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drmark12pa Posted January 22, 2019 Author Share Posted January 22, 2019 On 1/20/2019 at 4:08 PM, msgreenf said: Bindings are the fastest most efficient way to work Sent from my Pixel 3 using Tapatalk Once those are set though, I assume a dealer can only change them making a bit more problematic if an end user wants to program a button differently since the behavior will already be "locked" in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyknight Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 26 minutes ago, drmark12pa said: Once those are set though, I assume a dealer can only change them making a bit more problematic if an end user wants to program a button differently since the behavior will already be "locked" in? You have access to the settings for led behavior directly, and if you want to remove a binding, this can be done by reconfiguring the button layout (just set it the same) - at whcich point you have the option to 'assign' old buttons to whatever new buttons you want. In other words if there are two buttons and you want to remove a binding from the bottom one, reconfigure, do two buttons again, and copy button 1 to button 1, but leave button 2 'free' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvaskin Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 If you have a button with a binding to a lighting scene, can you still program another alternative scene on a double tap? Previously I had all my lighting buttons set to switch on scenes via bindings. When I then programmed in something on a doubletap, it would both activate the bound scene then execute the double tap programming. My intended behaviour would be to just execute the double tap programming on the double tap event. Is this possible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Singularity Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 I use blue/black "follow load" on lights, and different colors on "program" when using different scenes. I use red for actions such as "close house, or set alarm", and I usually require the button to be pressed at least two times to prevent theses kind of actions to be turned on by accident. I often use black/black in bedrooms where people may be bothered by lights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 8 hours ago, Singularity said: I use blue/black "follow load" on lights, and different colors on "program" when using different scenes. I use red for actions such as "close house, or set alarm", and I usually require the button to be pressed at least two times to prevent theses kind of actions to be turned on by accident. I often use black/black in bedrooms where people may be bothered by lights. Often worth swapping to black (backlight anyway) at night in bedrooms but leaving it normal during the day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Singularity Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 16 hours ago, South Africa C4 user said: Often worth swapping to black (backlight anyway) at night in bedrooms but leaving it normal during the day Yeah. I agree. I use the off, off, bright, bright, bright, off preset. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LollerAgent Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 On 1/18/2019 at 1:36 PM, Matt Lowe said: actually the new room control driver allows you to make bindings to a lot of multi media control. Really cool driver for dealers to make programming faster and more efficient. however it has its downsides too. Right now shuffle is not available for pandora. driver bug that is being worked on. Do you know if the "no shuffle with Pandora" was ever fixed? I'm just now playing with the driver in 2.10.6 and I don't see a way to shuffle either.. which is sort of a showstopper for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Lowe Posted May 26, 2019 Share Posted May 26, 2019 On 5/23/2019 at 1:54 PM, LollerAgent said: Do you know if the "no shuffle with Pandora" was ever fixed? I'm just now playing with the driver in 2.10.6 and I don't see a way to shuffle either.. which is sort of a showstopper for me. its a known issue. likely not fixed yet due to os3.0 release. i just program it in that case its just as easy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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