Cross linked Insteon SwitchLinc dimmers

[franky]

I just now started using Insteon and the Insteon driver that's posted here. Has anyone already installed and automated a three-way light circuit using this driver and SwitchLinc dimmers? Any advice on how to proceed?

I replaced the two switches in a three-way light circuit with two SwitchLinc dimmers and cross-linked the two dimmers as suggested by the guide for the SwitchLinc dimmers. They operate well on their own, with both switches' LEDs staying in sync. Now I want to make Premise aware of them and add some more interesting automation.

The SwitchLinc dimmers appear under the Insteon Root under the Devices as expected, but the Premise driver apparently isn't aware of the fact that the dimmers are cross linked (not surprising, when you think about it). As a result, when I push a button on the 1st physical switch, the state of the 2nd switch device object doesn't change in Premise (although the LEDs on the physical switchese are updated, since the two physical switches are cross linked). It's not obvious how to best model this arrangement within Premise such that:

• The state of the light object in the home model is affected by button presses at either physical switch.
• Any changes in the state of the light object in the home model results in the proper LED state on both physical switches.

I'm sure I can do this with some scripting and/or logic modules, but I'm hoping there's some clever, simple trick that minimizes unusual customization.

Thanks,
Frank

 

[georgejm]

Frank,

You found a "feature". At the moment, the driver does not sync the state of cross linked switches. It will synch the state of an individual switch IF that switch has been linked to the PLC with the switch being the "master". Have you done that yet? You do that by putting the SWITCH in link mode first then press and hold the button on the PLC for five seconds.

Thanks,

-John

 

[kzboray]

Frank,

As John said as long as you send the command from Premise to the "Master" switch you will get the results you ask for. The down side is that since the driver does not support cross linked switches you will not get the right feedback on the slaves. Explicitly this means that if you send a ".powerState = True" to the "Master" switch, the attached light will come on at the presetDim level you have set. However the "Slave" switch/s will show that the power is actually still off on their built-in LED's.

As a work around I have thought about creating scripts that actually trigger first the "Slave" switches, and then the "Master" switch so that all the switches show the correct state in Premise as well as the on-board LED's. I haven't had time to play with this yet, but in theory it should work.

Kaz