All lights dim dimming and illuminate gradually when powered on and off

[mamouLA]

I have several different kinds of lights and dimmer switches that support dimming. what I wouId like is for all of my lights to dim and illuminate gradually when powered on and off every time. I have been trying different brands, I know this probably makes it more difficult. Is there an app or setting that can be integrated that can achieve this across the board.

some of the different devices are
SYLVANIA SMART+ A19, sengled element classic
Philips Hue Phoenix Dimmable LED
SYLVANIA SMART+ RT 5/6 Tunable White LED Recessed
GE Z-Wave Wireless Smart Lighting Control Smart Dimmer Switch
GE Z-Wave Plus Wireless Smart Lighting Control Motion Dimmer Switch

[Core_Phx (Bill S.)]

AFAIK, you have to set that up individually for EACH light (if the DTH even supports it). I’ve tried searching through numerous smart apps (including even trying to create a super piston in webCoRE that trapped the on/off event for each bulb) and as I have found, there is just no easy way to do a mass update on devices. Someone might be able to write a smart app to do it, but AFAIK, there isn’t an easy way to do this in existence today.

[mamouLA]

@Core_Phx

you have to set that up individually for EACH ligh

I do not see the option to dim or illuminate gradually for any of these devices in the smartthings app or web page.

[pizzinini]

See this thread with the DTH for GE dimmers.

You can set the dim rate parameters for the switches. But this is not accessible through the standard Smartthings DTH. You temporarily set the DTH in the post, do your configuration and then switch it back to the standard DTH. The configuration remains in the switch.

You can set to almost instant dim up to more than 1 min.

GE 12729 Dimmer fade when issued a set level command

[mamouLA]

Where is the original device handler, or do I just delete the one I published so it can revert back to the original?

[pizzinini]

After you create and publish a DTH you need to assign it to a device. You do this in the IDE under the “Devices” menu. Just click on the device you want to change and then click edit. The standard GE GTH is called “ Dimmer Switch”.

Here is a good and extensive FAQ how to do all that:

[OBSOLETE] FAQ: An Overview of Using Custom Code in SmartThings (SmartThings Classic, Groovy Code)

The original FAQ information in this thread refers to the original smartthings architecture, which was in place through the end of 2022 and a little beyond. Custom code was written in the groovy programming language and ran in the smartthings cloud. As of May 2023, you can no longer add new Groovy DTH‘s or smartapps to your smartthings account. So if you came here because of a link in an old forum thread, or on another site, I’m afraid the Groovy information is no longer usable. All of this was replaced by a new architecture. Cloud to cloud integrations use the smartthings API. Hub connected devices, mostly Zigbee and zwave, now use “Edge Drivers,” written in the LUA programming language. Here’s the official announcement on those: The process for using a custom Edge Driver in the new …

[VirtualWave]

So I came here to basically ask the same question…

I need a way to slowly bring up the lights in a bedroom at a specific time of day, say 6am, from 0 to 100% over the course of an hour. Is that something the code mentioned above can do?

[JDRoberts]

@VirtualWave

So I came here to basically ask the same question…

I need a way to slowly bring up the lights in a bedroom at a specific time of day, say 6am, from 0 to 100% over the course of an hour. Is that something the code mentioned above can do?

Not the code discussed in this thread. That’s for a fade rate over a minute or so… Webcore can do what you’re talking about.

FAQ: What is WebCoRE? (And what was CoRE?)

CoRE (now WebCore) is a very powerful community – created rules engine for SmartThings. It allows you to set up stacked conditionals like “If A then B but only while C and not if D.” Setting it up can be quite complex, but there are many community members who will be glad to help you. For example, here is a piston that one member created to notify him if the dog had already been fed twice that day and he picked up the dog bowl for a third time. He needed this because he has a large family and people didn’t always remember whose turn it was to feed the dog. [image] The original version of CoRE Has now been replaced by a new version, WebCoRE, which moves the data entry to a web interface. This allows for flexibility and an architecture that requires more memory than is av…

[VirtualWave]

Thanks JD.

I just installed it and set it up. Looks like it’ll work just fine.

I had to create two tasks in my piston. The first one to set the level to 0, then to set a final level of 100 over 1 hour. Did a little testing and it seems like it’ll work just fine.

Thank you!