Thanks @anon36505037 i’ve got it installed in the real environment now. After installing it I changed parameter 13 to 1 and then after few seconds the light calibrates. I then set param 13 back to 0.
I am having one issue though, if i set the brightness of the light to upto 73% then it works. However, if i set brightness anything from 74% or above it sets the brightness and then turns off and reverts back to the previous value e.g. 50% etc. Is there a reason it is doing this?
I’ve also got it working with Alexa. Is there any way to ask Alexa to report the status of the light? Like is the bedroom light on or off?
Also, the energy monitor with the light set to 60% is reporting 177W. I have 5x 35w bulbs so that seems like at 60% it is still using the full 35W per bulb. Is that normal? I would have thought running it dimmer will reduce power.
Thanks @anon36505037 Do I just go to the Live Logging section on the IDE and then enable param 13 again and then monitor the value on the live logging section? Do I need to enable live logging? and after that’s done I turn param 13 back to 0 and then set the value of param 2 as whatever is detected on Live Logging right?
Thanks, just run the live logging and seems to be a lot of information. What am I supposed to be looking for LOL. I found this somewhere in them middle:
Thanks @anon36505037 I set it to 70 and when i now set it 100% it stays at 99% so seems to be working. So it seems to be working. I installed another one in the kitchen but the kitchen switch has lots of loops even with the deep back-box. So what I did was installed the dimmer to just hang and sit beneath the back-box as it will not fit in the back-box. Is this ok to do?
But the codersaur one just doesn’t seem to work. It just doesnt seem to control the lights.
Another quick question. I’ve installed a 212 Dimmer in the kitchen which has 4x MR16 GU5.3 bulbs.and currently has 4x clear glass halogen 28W bulbs in there. I’m using it on non-dimmable mode as I do not need the kitchen to be dimmable. I am thinking to replace the bulbs with 4 of these: https://www.screwfix.com/p/led-mr16-8w-4000k-36d-15kh-pack1/4140k
These are energy efficient and with 8W it gives an equivalant to 50W. However, 8W x 4 bulbs only equals 32W. Does that mean the dimmer will not work on 2 wire method? I read somewhere that the dimmer needs 50W minimum to work on 2 wire method. Not really a problem as the kitchen light switch has access to the neutral so I can just put a neutral in there.
Thanks @anon36505037 I will try the handler by @zcapr17 again, I just installed it didn’t make any parameter changes. Do I need to do same thing about setting params on IDE?
It’s working now. So I will switch to this handler. Params look similar to the other one. I think what I was doing wrong is not setting the params correctly in the beginning.
There is a param called: Force Nightmode, i’m assuming best to turn that on right? I don’t want to set a nightmode start and stop time, is it ok to leave these two params blank? If I want night mode I will select it. Is there a way to activate nightmode with a retractive switch x amount of presses?
Awesome, Thanks @anon36505037 Ive now switched over to the handler by @zcapr17 All working nicely. I am now able to get the minimum and maximum value for param 1 and 2 using live logging unlike the previous handler.
I have however noticed a problem. With the previous handler i was able to say Alexa set bedroom to 20% or set bedroom lights to 20% but now when I say that It does actually carry out the command but Alexa responds saying I don’t know what went wrong or something along those lines. But it actually performs the task but just doesnt say OK as it usually does. Any idea what is wrong?
Got it working now. It seems it was because I changed the device handler in the IDE. Somehow when Alexa discovered the device with the previous handler it has some sort of settings. So I had to forget the devices under the Smart Home devices in Alexa. I then said discover my devices and it found them again. This time with the new handler. And now the commands seem to work.
Just now my kitchen lights started turning off and on when I turned them on. I looked in the ST app and the fault circle was orange and said voltage fault. How do I view the error and what is wrong? Was ok up until now. This has just started happening. Is the param 2 maybe too high? I took param 2 value from the auto calibration.
OK thanks, I will try that. I remember when I was manually determining the cut-off point on the same circuit with the previous handler I ended up setting it to 60 because i think at 72 it was cutting off. But for some reason the auto calibration set param 2 to 70 so hence thats what I set it to. Now i’ve set it to 65. Will see how that goes.
@anon36505037 I just purchased a momentary switch from screwfix to replace the toggle switch. Once I swap it out, I simply change param 20 to 0 right? what is the default way of operating the momentary switch?
Please have you a real working handler you use for Fibaro 212, because I’ve tried two different device handlers, and none of them are real not woking, but I have only a virtual switch, but the lamp never burns. My kit: Fibaro dimmer 2 + lamp 17W + Smartthings Hub 2 + device handler from the beginning of the forum.
I have a fibaro dimmer that I’m connecting to a spot light. It Was working fine using the 2.02 DTH. Recently It just stopped working. It says sync pending and its stuck on turning off but never changes status from ON. The light work properly when switched from the physical wall switch but doesn’t reflect status in app
I tried a soft reset, I tried zwave repair and i even tried to exclude the device but it wouldn’t. All didn’t work.
I also tried to change the device handler to a standard zwave dimmer but still nothing
The strange thing is that it reports power correctly so it’s communicating with the hub. But it wouldn’t change state or dim except from the physical switch
Maybe try a force sync of all settings. Note it could take a few tries to do the full sync. Next option is an exclude and reset in case it got corrupted.
Many Thanks Robin for your detailed answer
Before I get I to the process of exclusion, I’m sharing the below in case it helps the debugging thinking:
I have another fibaro dual relay that I included and it was successfully detected by smartthings. I installed the unit on 2 toggle switches and tried using it. I’m using the FGS222 double relay DTH.
Again, same thing happened. While the switches work good on the physical switches and the fibaro relay ticks properly , I cannot it control it nor configure it through the hub. Plz note I have lots of other Aeotec switches that work perfectly right. I’m wondering if this has anything to do because both these units are fibaro and I have the v1.0 smartthings hub
Sorry for the ling email and for bringing in another case with a different DTH on this thread, but checking if this can help the debugging in case I’m doing something wrong or so
Circling back on this. Finally got it to work. I managed to exclude and include again and it worked.
The issue with exclusion was all about the pace of turning the switch 3 times.