"Manual" Light Switch Interaction

[ts1234]

BTW…I was just wondering if the inverse was possible. I don’t suppose it’s possible for ST to trigger on a change that happens to a switch that ST did not initiate? IE - It get’s an on message that it didn’t request the action.

[Mike1616]

Mike1616…what you have set up is very cool and probably a great add on routine! What I want though is conceptually quite simpler. If I manually turn the switch on I want it bright to see something and simply want if I turn the switch on at the wall it to always go straight to 100. (but not if the command comes via ST/Alexa)

Yeah, I get what you’re after. But the reason I setup what I have is that you can’t get what you’re trying to do to work. These switches do not send any special code/instruction/notification that would allow ST or WC to know that the interaction with them was physical versus programmatic.

On the other side, there’s no way for WC to know that an event (the light turned on) came from the physical switch or from the ST hub or from the Alexa device. All WC knows is that the light turned on.

That’s why I built what I have… Since you cannot know what turned on the light…I decided to instead change the way the lights work when they are turned on.

The only real way I can think of doing this still is create virtual switches for every light switch that ST/Alexa would turn on and then if only the real switch alone was turned on at the wall (no toggle of the virtual) send a “set level 100” command to the physical switch.

Yeah, I think that would work…a pain, but it should work.

I think there are also some switches on the market that if you do something like double tap them they go to 100

I have the GE Z-Wave plus switches that support double-tap on them…so that’s what I did, the effect is not native in the switch though, so I just wrote a few WC pistons to make that happen. If i hit the double-tap up I have the associated lights immediately go to 100, otherwise if I just press the light on once they go to the level they were last set to. Turning them on thru ST or the Echo also has them go to the level they last had.

BTW…I was just wondering if the inverse was possible. I don’t suppose it’s possible for ST to trigger on a change that happens to a switch that ST did not initiate? IE - It get’s an on message that it didn’t request the action.

Nope. Again there’s nothing sent that provides that type of information. .