At the risk of rehashing a previous thread, have you seen this?
I have the later model GE toggles. "Multilevel" sounds like a dimmer. If you have the later model dimmers, "alternate exclusion" is also an option on @JasonJoel 's fine drivers.
Report back after you try it.
Direct associations are not standard. Some devices do not support them at all, others have anywhere from 1 - 10 association groups. To know what each group does you need to check with the docs for that device. Now you could assume that group 2 is nearly always a basic on/off event, and usually group 3 has something to do with dimming. Outside of that its all over the place.
If you are really interested in setting up some associations start a separate thread and you can tag me, I can guide you through it.
In Insteon the direct device association implementation was very simple. In addition to the
primary Device Id each device had/has a Group Id. Once Group Id is added to the device
EEPROM it listens and responds to the Commands with Primary and Group IDs matching.
Why the direct association implementation for the ZWave/Zigbee devices is very messy
is a BIG IF.
What makes you say that direct association for zigbee devices is very messy? Endpoint binding (the zigbee term for direct association) is very simple to setup for zigbee coordinators that support it.
I guess, a different thread is better to be created for this discussion.
Anyway, actively using many different Home Automation platforms for many years and
being very experienced EE for near half a century I think (just my opinion) all these current
implementations is extremely and unnecessary overcomplicated. All together this creates a
HUGE mess with all existing communication protocols and brings interoperability near to zero. Think about how smart Ethernet (actually TCP/IP) was design more than half century ago.
Just deliver a packet from point-to-point over whatever existing media (you can use even a
water pipe with say, ultrasonic transducers) and suddenly everything will work just fine.
So, why something very similar and simple was not adopted for the Home Automation
is a big mystery. Instead we have gazillions of different protocols and physical layers.
Each one is talking foreign language and as a result could not understand each other.
Very nice for the 21th century!
But again, this is a very different discussion.
In case anyone is interested (and not already enrolled in beta):
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