CoRE - Get peer assistance here with setting up Pistons

[mechanicguy (Guy)]

@WylieGraham

apologies if this has been asked/answered before, i did some searching but didn’t catch it.

is there a way to have a piston set the dim level on a physical switch but not turn on the light? my goal is to have all my dimmable lights change their dim levels at various points in time, but to keep the current state of the light. so for example, at 9:30, set them to 20%, leaving off lights that aren’t being used at that time. right now when i set the dim %, it activates the light.

I was looking to do this very thing with my GE Z-Wave In-Wall Smart Dimmer (Toggle) switches and started this thread: GE Smart Dimmer when turned on, default to full brightness - #26 by mechanicguy

Basically it ended with “Set Level” always turning on the light. The piston I made issues a “Turn Off” immediately afterward. With an LED bulb, you get a brief full-on which I found annoying, so I set it to run during the night. Incandescent bulbs aren’t as noticeable.