Vizia Scene and Zone

[pkshiu]

I am about to add lots of lighting to my loft with Vizia dimmers. So I watched the videos on the Leviton site. They are actually pretty good. I am trying hard to understand the scene vs zone concept. Currently I am using all Intermatic stuff, including both the small hand held ones and two of the "master" table top ones. They only(?) uses the scene concept. i.e. associate one button to a group of devices + their dim level.

Am I correct in that the zone concept is new and is supported only by Vizia? The zone concept seems to be the idea that within a network master controller, it can group devices into named zones. Then a zone style controller can be associated, button-to-zone for on/off/dim. The difference is that zones are defined in the network topology, while the scene is defined locally at the controller having the button. Is this correct?

BTW I hate the way scene programming works -- you have to go to each physical device to set the level and do the association. We need a controller that can do this remotely.

P.K.

 

[Squintz]

As far as I know the terms Scene and Zone have been around forever in regards to z-wave. Leviton seems to be the only ones using the words to destinguish their products from one another tho.

A scene is a Pre-Set level of one or more devices. So if you hit a button on a controller the lights would always come on to the level which you preset at programming time. A zone would be a direct control of one or more devices. So the device would come back on to the last known level. If you turned it off at 70% it would come back on at 70 and if you turned it off at 60% it would turn back on at 60%. In other words a zone is not really a scene. For instance a scene would be "Bedtime" or "Cooking" whereas a zone would be "Lamps" or Living room". At bedtime the lights would be turned to preset levels whereas with a zone you don't have preset levels but do have control over the current level.