While I don’t really get the full picture of the scenario, it seems more related to the virtual scene switcher and how to handle the switching than to the button driver.
Regarding the specific request for the button driver, I understand what you are asking and I believe there are more generic approaches. On the technical side, the driver does not use custom capabilities or presentations and I prefer to keep it that way.
Scene switchers can auto-cycle as you know, there’s no need for the auto-repeat in a button. You can expose the release action in the button driver settings and use Held to start and “Toggled up” to stop the auto cycling features of a scene switcher, either the one you’re using or an extra one to help in your specific scenario.
Maybe you can achieve what you’re looking for with the auto-cycle reversing mode of the scene switcher. Alternatively, you can create a helper scene switcher to call the smart prev/next action of the other switcher.
What settings do I need to select on the ‘Somrig settings’ to get the lights to brighten slowly and dim slowly when one of the buttons is held and for the lights to remain at the desired level when the button is released?
Thanks very much for your time and apologies if this has already been discussed
Mind the button driver does not control the lights, it just tells SmartThings “I’ve been pressed / held / released” so you can create routines like “if button held then do something”.
The actions in this case depend on what SmartThings and the driver of the lights allows. I can tell you stock drivers for lights don’t have a dim slowly or brighten slowly action. Maybe with a custom driver for the light switch you can. Or maybe you can use the virtual dimmer with steps mentioned in the previous link and the auto-repeat feature of the driver (this won’t be that smooth but better than nothing).
If you find a driver for the lights that has start / stop dimming, then you’ll have to “Enable Toggled Up on release” in the button settings so the Toggled up event also appears (that’s the release event after the Held).
Hi, Thanks very much for the detailed reply. I’ll have a hunt around and see what I can find re drivers for the lights. From what i’ve seen so far there’s very little for Paulman dimmers.
Thanks again and I def try the steps you’ve mentioned as I don’t need them to dim smoothly etc, just to dim/brighten.
Cheers
