I am integrating with a 3rd party home automation controller via RS232. I want to set the trim of my dimmers such that they are lower during the day, and brighter at night. The 3rd party controller has excellent day/night detection, therefore I want to have it tell the repeater when to set the trim.
In the RA2 software I created a custom green mode called “Dimmers Low” and a phantom button on my main repeater to trigger it. I also created a second phantom button to turn off green mode. For testing, I went into telnet and tried to send a #DEVICE command to turn it on. The “Dimmers Low” button is in position 1 on main repeater (which has integration id 1) so i issued #DEVICE,1,1,3 (3 for button press, but 1/2 for enables/disabled didn’t work either). I expected my already on LED to dim, but it didn’t do anything.
Just as a test, I created a 3rd phantom button that just turns on the dimmer to 50% over 10 seconds. Issuing #DEVICE,1,3,3 over telnet worked exactly as I expected it to, so it maybe I’m misunderstanding how the green modes work?