Group hai light switches
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Steve
Senior Member
Welcome to CocoonTech!
Sure thats possible. I am assuming when you switch either of the 2 on with its own switch, you want the other to come on as well? In UpStart just configure each of those 2 switches to send a certain Link, then have each of the switch respond to that link (in Receive table). So when you press either switch it will send a link that is then responded to by itself and the other. Make sense?
Sure thats possible. I am assuming when you switch either of the 2 on with its own switch, you want the other to come on as well? In UpStart just configure each of those 2 switches to send a certain Link, then have each of the switch respond to that link (in Receive table). So when you press either switch it will send a link that is then responded to by itself and the other. Make sense?
AutomatedOutlet
Senior Member
Might be easier to use Upstart.
I am doing HLC too. Its sooo easy to set those up.
You will want to put in a piece of code that will turn on light #2 when light #1 is turned on and a bit that turns it off when the other is turned off. You can do it for both lights if you want them both to control each other.
Something like
WHEN "light #1" in "room" ON PRESSED
THEN "light #2" ON
ASIHome
Active Member
Using PC Access, you are able to achieve what you are looking for without going into UpStart.
Make sure both dimmers are in the same room
Name the Room (even if you don't have a scene switch)
Using a Console or Touchscreen, set the scene levels
Determine how you want to activate the scene (when the paddle is pressed on either device, at a certain time, when motion is seen, etc.)
Program the room to go to the desired scene based on above.
programmergeek
Active Member
Just a warning, I had several people I used upstart for and found out that the switches will not report back to the HAI correct if you use upstart, what a pain. I had to reprogram everything back to the HAI and all the customer wanted was red LED's and the LED's off in the bedrooms. I would stay away from upstart wish HAI played better with it or you could program the stuff in HAI. Upstart was much easer though and had a nice gui.
I see what you are trying to do. I have never tried basically he wantes his activation to be a press of the switch then set the other switch to the same. Not just on off. On off you can do I'm not sure if there is a way to evulate the dim level in the HAI.
I see what you are trying to do. I have never tried basically he wantes his activation to be a press of the switch then set the other switch to the same. Not just on off. On off you can do I'm not sure if there is a way to evulate the dim level in the HAI.
HAI_fjh
Active Member
Have you considered a room controller?
I wanted a home theater, but my wife wanted an exercise room. I argued we could just watch exciting movies to get our hear rates up, but...
Anyhow in my living room I have can lights, a corner light and an end table lamp. I have a room controller where I have configured scene D as my movie scene. It turns off the can lights, and dims the corner light and the end table lamp to 25%. It's very easy just press scene D, then set the individual lights the way you want then, press the scene D button again 5 times to learn/set that scene. MUCH easier than messing with upstart. Now when ever I press scene D, all the lights return to my preset levels.
Additionally since I have an open floor plan and the foyer lights, hall lights and dining room lights can shine into the living room I added a few lines of programming in the Omni to handle them also.
Example:
WHEN Living Room SCENE D
AND IF Dining Room ON
THEN Dining Room SCENE D
Basically I just do this for each of the adjoining rooms.
Later I added a second room controller in a desktop mount and set it on the table by my recliner. This is cool just a room controller in a little box with a plug on it. This allowed me to set the movie mode without having to get up and walk over to the wall.
Finally I recently added a Pronto 9400 to the mix. Now I can amaze my friends and family with a single button press. It turns on the TV, Surround Sound and Media Center. Selects all the correct inputs, and since the room controllers have IR receivers built in, it dims the lights too.
Cool!
Hopefully some or all of this will be useful
I wanted a home theater, but my wife wanted an exercise room. I argued we could just watch exciting movies to get our hear rates up, but...
Anyhow in my living room I have can lights, a corner light and an end table lamp. I have a room controller where I have configured scene D as my movie scene. It turns off the can lights, and dims the corner light and the end table lamp to 25%. It's very easy just press scene D, then set the individual lights the way you want then, press the scene D button again 5 times to learn/set that scene. MUCH easier than messing with upstart. Now when ever I press scene D, all the lights return to my preset levels.
Additionally since I have an open floor plan and the foyer lights, hall lights and dining room lights can shine into the living room I added a few lines of programming in the Omni to handle them also.
Example:
WHEN Living Room SCENE D
AND IF Dining Room ON
THEN Dining Room SCENE D
Basically I just do this for each of the adjoining rooms.
Later I added a second room controller in a desktop mount and set it on the table by my recliner. This is cool just a room controller in a little box with a plug on it. This allowed me to set the movie mode without having to get up and walk over to the wall.
Finally I recently added a Pronto 9400 to the mix. Now I can amaze my friends and family with a single button press. It turns on the TV, Surround Sound and Media Center. Selects all the correct inputs, and since the room controllers have IR receivers built in, it dims the lights too.
Cool!
Hopefully some or all of this will be useful
Brian Yokum
Active Member
If all you want to do is change the LED settings, you should first have the HAI controller configure the network. Then have UPStart "discover" your network. This will capture all the setup done by the HAI controller. Change the LEDs as desired, then write out the changes to the network. This should leave the default HLC functionality intact.
