Elk Function Keypad Button Programming.....

[DeathtoToasters]

I have an Elk M1 Gold system and I am trying to program the F5 and F6 buttons to turn on all lights on and off.

All the lights are currently using UPB and are connected and automated through Elk now without any issues.

Well I created a task with Elk RP called ALL Lights. What I don't understand is that when I created the tasks there in no interface to choose which lights I want off and on.

So I went to the keypad tab and clicked on the F5 button and then drop down to Automated Task 5 (the slot where I created the all lights task), save it, and sent it to the system.

Tried the F5 button and no joy.

Anyone tried this before and got it to work?

Thanks for help !!!!

 

[123]

You have a function key ... that runs a task ... and you've got a rule, right? Something like:

WHENEVER F5 KEY ON ANY KEYPAD ACTIVATES
	THEN ACTIVATE AllLightsOn (Task 1)

 

[DeathtoToasters]

You have a function key ... that runs a task ... that runs a rule, right? Does the rule work?

Ok, I have the function button set to task.....but when you create a task there is no way to tell it to run a rule, all I am allowed to do is enter the name, show it or not, and add a voice description.

No way to assign a rule to it, that is what is confusing me.

 

[123]

The Rule "binds" the Function Key to the Task.

 

[GraysonPeddie]

Set the function 5 to automation task 5 in Keypad -> Keypad x (where 'x' is your keypad number), go into Task area and name it "All Lights On A" (or whatever you like), and in the Rules area, set up something like this:

WHENEVER All Lights On A (Task 5) IS ACTIVATED
	THEN TURN ALL LIGHTS ON, HOUSECODE A

The reason why you'll have to select any house code is because of "by design" since you're limited to 256 devices (in my case of Insteon, lights 1 through 192, each of those are one device per slot. From 193 to 254, those are for groups (the M1XSP manual mentioned that I can only control Group 1, which is Light 193). Light 255 is for future use and Light 256 is for starting/stopping linking mode.

So, for UPB, you can set up Light 193, you can setup "All Lights" and when you press F5, you can toggle all lights on/off.

 

[DeathtoToasters]

Thanks for the help. That makes sense.

I ended up making a rule that is associated witht he function keys for the lights.

I didn't realize that the rules also have a space for the 'keypad f' buttons