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    EcoSystem and Homeworks QS

    We have yet to integrate Eco with QS and I was wondering if anyone has done this yet? Specifically how does the addressing of the drivers happen? Also, I believe that we can "permanently" assign multiple drivers to a single address, for loads which will never be separated and/or re-addressed.....correct? I have been unable to find any king of tutorial or even a help file on the web.

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldguy View Post
    We have yet to integrate Eco with QS and I was wondering if anyone has done this yet? Specifically how does the addressing of the drivers happen? Also, I believe that we can "permanently" assign multiple drivers to a single address, for loads which will never be separated and/or re-addressed.....correct? I have been unable to find any king of tutorial or even a help file on the web.
    Dear oldguy,

    Attached is the white paper that was created for using Ecosystem in HomeWorks QS. This can also be found on the MyLutron portal.
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    It's easy & intuitive. I did it yesterday for a small group of test fixtures. The fixtures are grouped together in switchlegs under Design / Loads. Enter the first fixture & then duplicate. The drivers are addressed in the Activate tab, under "ballasts." The initial communication takes a long time during the activation process, pushing 5 minutes on a very simple 5 fixture set up. Once that's done, the program flashes each fixture in sequence. and you confirm the flashing, much like activating a shade using the wiggle method. Then there's a brief confirmation step. Very easy.

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    DS- did you experiment with the lights much after setup? I have heard that there can be a 'popcorn' type effect with all on/all off type scenes. I only got to experiment with this once on a test board and I thought I saw the same thing. I really like the engineering side of ecosystem but I'll have a hard time implementing it if rooms with multiple zones don't ramp in unison with a simple command like 'all on'.

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    I only had a set of 5 fixtures, but they were absolutely synchronous, no popcorning.

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    good to hear- were those 5 fixtures defined as 1 zone, or were they each separate zones?

    I went back to my notes and can tell you that I tried control of the 3 zones 2 ways:
    control 3 zones with programming that most of us in the resi world use: Lighting Zones (check off all 3 zones in the preset window)
    control 3 zones with Lighting Area Presets- as recommended in ecosystem white paper (choose a scene in that area that turned on all 3 zones no fade)
    In both programming models the 3 zones seemed to turn on sequentially.
    Maybe I was doing something wrong.

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