How would I best approach this in Room Lighting
1: Motion activated lights turn on. (lutron caseta dimmer) but fade up incrementally over a 10-15 minute period form off - 100%
The only way I found to do it was to have a separate RM for just the fade up. The wait for events and the stop dimmer fade ensures that if someone turns off the light it cancels the fade up (so it does not turn it back on and continue the fade).
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I'll give it a whirl... Danke...
If I’m understanding what you want, this can be done in Room Lighting.
When motion is detected, the lights ramp up to 100% (or whatever value you specify) over the specified time in seconds:
Is there a maximum on seconds? I seem to remember a thread about 60 seconds or so.
It does allow you to enter a really large number of seconds without an error message, but I haven’t tested if it actually works.
It will depend on the device and driver. For example my Zooz drivers only support up to 127 seconds. After that per the zwave spec values 128-255 are in minutes (1-127 minutes) so technically you could do up to 127 minutes. The driver would need to convert the seconds from the duration input anything above 127 to nearest minutes and send the proper command. I am going to add it to my driver eventually and try it out for Zooz anyway.
I have all lutron Caseta... I guess I would have to ask either @mike.maxwell or @bravenel
Just go to the device page, turn it off, then do a setLevel to 100 with duration of 600, see if it works. Thats the command that RL would send if you set that transition time to 600.
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I don't know what the maximum fade time for Caséta is. RM does have raise dimmer over time that uses individual setLevel commands spread over time with an interval specified. Room Lights can also do this. One thing you can do when using this is set the device fade to the interval time, and you end up with a very smooth transition.
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Thanks Bruce. I'll give it a whirl and see what I come up with.
Can Room Lights do it as a fade up? I was only able to figure it out for the preset off fade out.
Yes, it can do either a transition from A to B, or from current levels to B. The latter is a transition upon Activation.
@rlithgow1 sounds like this could replace my rule. I will have to check it out possibly tomorrow. May not work per mode though which I will need my rule for still to limit it to morning only.
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