Lutron Smart Bridge Pro + 5 Button Pico + Button Controllers = Confused

[SteveV]

I received my Lutron Smart Bridge Pro a last week and finally had some time to set it up today. Setup was easy enough and I was able to add a 5 button Pico without too much difficult though it did take reading through a number of posts before it all made sense.

Next, I added a Button Controller, named it, selected my 5 button Pico and started adding the buttons and associated actions. I’m running into a number of odd, likely user related issues when adding buttons and actions. All 5 buttons are being used to control a GE Z-Wave in-wall dimmer and I’d like the buttons to do the following:

B1: On 100% Brightness
B2: Increase brightness while button is being held, stop when released
B3: Set brightness to 20%
B4: Decrease brightness while button is being held, stop when released
B5: Off

I'm using the Lutron Pico device type. I tried Fast Pico and could get that working either.

Here's how my Button Controller is setup:

Button 1, 3, and 5 work mostly as expected. Button 5 gently ramps down from the current brightness to 0. Buttons 3 and 5 don't ramp at all--they go to their set levels abruptly with no ramping.

Buttons 2 and 4 adjust the current value by +1 and -1 respectively but don't repeat while the button is being held. I was expecting that they'd continue adjusting the level while they were being held but that doesn't appear to be the case.

Here's what my log looks like when buttons are being pressed:

I'm sure I'm missing something here but I'll be damned if I can figure out what it is

Also, I assume that > With this fade determines the time the fade takes in seconds??

Any help, suggestions, guidance, slaps up side the head would greatly appreciated!

[ritchierich]

I am not sure you can hold a button and have it "loop" to increase fade. If the pico was controlling a Lutron dimmer directly it would, but I am not sure about through HE and controlling a GE dimmer. I believe you need to click it multiple times to increase and decrease. So making it fade more than 1 at a time would be important.

This said I am somewhat new to Lutron as I have only had my hub for a month and I am only controlling GE fan controls with buttons 2-4 where I dim +33 and -33.

[SteveV]

@ritchierich

I am not sure you can hold a button and have it "loop" to increase fade.

In this post there's a YouTube video of @mike.maxwell demoing press and hold dimming a z-wave dimmer using a Pico with the Fast Pico device type so it looks like it might be possible. Beats me how, though.

[mike.maxwell]

Here's the short how to version for smooth dimming using BC.
You will need to use the Standard Pico button driver to do this as pushed, held and released are required, the fast pico doesn't have the held programming.

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I don't believe these commands have been added to our built in apps yet. So to use them currently you'll need to create three custom commands startLevelChange("up") startLevelChange("down") and stopLevelChange() As an Example in BC using a two button controller you would then implement the following: button 1 pushed [light xyz] on button 1 held [light xyz] startLevelChange("up") button 1 released [light xyz] stopLevelChange() for button 2 you go the other direction button 1 pushed [li…

You'll just need to change the button numbers etc.

[SteveV]

Thanks Mike--that's freaking awesome! Dimming is super smooth and extremely responsive!

[DeveloperDavidB]

Could you guys please help me figure out what I am doing wrong. Can't seem to get this to work.

In Button Controller app, I setup the three custom commands

Then in created this for the Pico remote.

It looks like the dimmer driver is receiving the custom commands. Dimmer is a HomeSeer ZWave Plus WD-200 series, and I am using the HomeSeer WD-200 Dimmer driver created by Hubitat.

The dimmer is not responding in any way to button 2 or 4 Hold / release. Any guidance would be appreciated.

[DeveloperDavidB]

Here are the logs.

[DeveloperDavidB]

Im starting to think that my dimmer just doesn't accept these parameters. If that's the case, any other way of getting smooth dimming from button 2 and 4 of the pico remotes on a zwave plus dimmer?

[SteveV]

@DeveloperDavidB

Any guidance would be appreciated.

Your custom commands don't look right. Here's how mine look:

Not that yours read hold('startLevelChange("down")')

The commands are startLevelChangestartLevelChange("up"), startLevelChangestartLevelChange("down") and stopLevelChange()

The Button Controller custom commands should look like this:

Hope this helps

[DeveloperDavidB]

@SteveV Thanks! Its working now thanks to your example!

[marktheknife]

Somehow I missed the fact that these custom commands were added to the button controller app.

Definitely looking forward to trying it out with a couple picos and lightify dimmer switches, thanks @mike.maxwell!