Method for evening dimming conditional

[zmm12345]

Hi Everyone,


First time posting


I am trying to set up the following in my house, since light at night seems to really impact my sleep.


1) ALL lights in the house (or atleast whichever ones i select) that are in the "on state", should auto dim at night down to 50% very gradually over a 4 hours period.

2) if at any point during these 4 hours, i turn on a light that was not already on, it should turn on to the exact dimmed amount that it would be if it had been on and was slowly dimming from item 1.

3) If after the 4 hours i turn on any of these lights, it should automatically go to the 50% setting

for extra credit, If i double tab any of these light buttons then it would go to full power


Does anyone have any ideas on the best and least messy way to set this up?
I am trying to do this in some global sort of way, instead of trying to setup complicated conditionals for every item.


I am sure that ketra would make this much easier to do, but I dont have ketra lighting currently.


Thank you so much!

[TheMaestro]

Hi Everyone,


First time posting


I am trying to set up the following in my house, since light at night seems to really impact my sleep.


1) ALL lights in the house (or atleast whichever ones i select) that are in the "on state", should auto dim at night down to 50% very gradually over a 4 hours period.

2) if at any point during these 4 hours, i turn on a light that was not already on, it should turn on to the exact dimmed amount that it would be if it had been on and was slowly dimming from item 1.

3) If after the 4 hours i turn on any of these lights, it should automatically go to the 50% setting

for extra credit, If i double tab any of these light buttons then it would go to full power


Does anyone have any ideas on the best and least messy way to set this up?
I am trying to do this in some global sort of way, instead of trying to setup complicated conditionals for every item.


I am sure that ketra would make this much easier to do, but I dont have ketra lighting currently.


Thank you so much!

One way to achieve this is with a "Single Variable" and a Timeclock.

Create a variable called DAY/NIGHT
Create a Timeclock for DAY Sunrise to Sunset (or whatever time you want DAY to stop)
Create a Timeclock for NIGHT Sunset to Sunrise
On the DAY Timeclock program the DAY/NIGHT variable to select DAY
On the NIGHT Timeclock program the DAY/NIGHT variable to select NIGHT


On the keypad Button select PROGRAM TYPE "SINGLE VARIABLE" and SELECT the DAY/NIGHT Variable and this will give you 2 tabs One for DAY and One for NIGHT
Program you desired levels for each
As the timeclock events happen the keypads will respond as you want them
You can also program the double tap on the night side to go to full

That is the easiest and most reliable way to do this. Please not it will not automatically adjust levels with the timeclock shift, meaning if the light was turned on during the day, when the NIGHT timeclock event executes you would need to press the button again to have the night setting apply. I would make sure the LED Logic is set to scene to avoid multiple presses

[pzhabilov]

Can it can be done? Yes, but requires some work: 1) You can set a new variable in Programming for the lights intensity with default value 100 and multiple states going down to 50 ( example: 100,90,80,70,60.50). 2) Create timeclock series of events that set each state of the variable at certain time (100 at sunrise, 90 at sunset, 80 at sunset +1h, 70 at sunset +2h, 60 at sunset +3h, 50 at sunset +4h) 3) Create similar timeclock series for the dimming of all active lights (at sunset conditional: if zone is from 91 and 100 set to 90, at sunset +1h conditional: if zone is from 81 and 100 set to 80 etc) 4) On the keypads change the button logic to conditional based on a single variable, choose the lights intensity variable, and program the logic for each state of the variable