Something I think I want is the “pre-stage” ability for rooms where the ceiling lights are controlled by a Zooz Zen27. My hope/guess is that there’s another (hopefully easy) way to accomplish this. Thus the answer is
“you don’t really want pre-stage… here’s how you’d accomplish the same thing with what you have”
Ideal: someone turning the lights on, with a single tap of Padel 1, would yield a different brightness depending on whether it’s noon or 7 pm or 9:30 pm.
Is there and I just don’t know it? Or is there a driver for the Zooz Zen27 with Pre-stage? TIA
That device and Zwave in general does not have a provision for pre staging. When you set the level the device turns on, period.
There are a couple of ways to overcome it. Zooz has a setting where you can change the default "turn on" level. You could use my community driver and the Set Parameter command to change that setting on the fly with time/mode based rules. If you want to do this multiple devices it becomes cumbersome though.
The other option which I use is Room Lighting, and setting per mode. I set the "default" on level of the device to be my lowest expected setting. Then in RL I set the preferred level for each mode / time of day. When you turn on the device it will start at the default but quickly adjust to the RL setting. There is a slight pause but I have found it is not a big deal for me.
If that pause while RL kicks in is a problem the only way is using rules to change the setting on the device itself.
