Programming Help

[Rowan Truscott]

Hi All,

After some help with ideas on how to deal with the following.

System:

- 4x Loxone 240v dimmers

- 3x Loxone Relay extensions for lighting and blinds

- DI extensions to drive the switches

Each lighting circuit has a dedicated two way retractive switch which was put in to mimic the down for on and up for off functionality of a traditional switch, then push+hold to dim up or down. This works great if the room can get away with just using the dimmer block.

The issue I have is that with the Lighting Controller (v1 or v2) the l1-l4 inputs alternate between dimming up and down with long presses. I need to use the lighting controller in most rooms as I would like to use scenes and also have a bunch of pir sensors.

Its confusing for people if they press down to turn on the lights and then try to long press up to dim up, but the lights will dim down instead as the initial press is interpreted by the controller as "up"

Anyone got any ideas on how to deal with this?

I have tried to play around with using a dimmer block that consumes the Q output from the controller into P to allow for setting scenes but that then does not allow the controller to see an override when Mv has turned on the lights.

[Rydens]

Hi,

interesting problem - I don't see how you can control the lighting controller to do that - interested in others views. 

I understand your objective, but code may need to get complex.....eg use dimmers on the output of the lighting block!

I use an analog value generated based on time of day to set the brightness of the stairs lights when the lighting controller puts them on in the movement mood. 

Otherwise the lighting controller passes the brightness through.

I had some switches do diming to start with but found both techie me and my wife just prefered to use preset moods. 

If I really want to fiddle then the app allows for that, but in everyday life a selection of moods works well. 

I also fully recommend using the lighting controller.

Interested to see how this progresses from a techie point of view.

Cheers David

[Duncan]

this is a bit complicated and would require repeating for each light controller, but single click cycles through moods, both up and down, double click turns off, click and hold adjusts the master dimmer output up or down of the v2 lighting block so will dim each mood

[Duncan]

just for completeness, you can also add some logic to detect a change of scene and reset the master dimmer to 100% with the selection swith default D parameter set to 100