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General Category => Ideas/Feature requests => Topic started by: sfalc on January 08, 2015, 03:50:04 pm

Title: Make dimmer settings sticky - i.e so that they remain after an on/off cycle.
Post by: sfalc on January 08, 2015, 03:50:04 pm
It would be nice if the dimmer settings where persistent over an on/off cycle. Currently, the dimmer settings goes back to maximum brightness if one turns of the light. Normally, at least for me, if have a dimmed setting of say 50%, I would like the light to automatically return to 50% when I turn it back on.
Title: Re: Make dimmer settings sticky - i.e so that they remain after an on/off cycle.
Post by: mparadis on January 08, 2015, 06:35:43 pm
My dimmable LED's do this. They stay where they were set to when controlled by the apps / LCD. I don't know about dimmer switches, that may be programmed into the switch itself as most have a manual way to dim and may require that control in order to set it to a starting point. I have the wink bulbs.
Title: Re: Make dimmer settings sticky - i.e so that they remain after an on/off cycle.
Post by: fillibar on January 08, 2015, 07:54:07 pm
Do not try to put rules for the GE Link bulbs though with .69cb. While it will not harm them all they can do is set the bulb to 0% dim. They will appear off. They are NOT off, but they look like it.
Title: Re: Make dimmer settings sticky - i.e so that they remain after an on/off cycle.
Post by: sfalc on January 21, 2015, 07:12:25 am
Well, my problem/request is to implement this with dimmer switches (plug-in type) that do not remember the settings over an on/off cycle.

To my knowledge neither does the dimmable WeMo zigbee LED-light, it only remembers the settings if you turn them off using the Almond+. When I do a proper power-cycle using the light-switch in the wall, it returns on with maximum brightness. I would imagine that the other zigbee LED-lights behave in a similar manner.

I would imagine that a proper implementation would require the Almond+ system to query the brightness settings from the user, when the LED-light or dimmer switch comes back "online" after the power cycle.
Title: Re: Make dimmer settings sticky - i.e so that they remain after an on/off cycle.
Post by: LGNilsson on January 22, 2015, 01:25:37 am
We're working on this, it'll just take some time to get it right, but expect it in a firmware or two.
Title: Re: Make dimmer settings sticky - i.e so that they remain after an on/off cycle.
Post by: mparadis on January 22, 2015, 09:20:59 am
Sfalc, now I understand. Looks like Lars and the team are already onto it.