pizzinini
October 7, 2015, 4:27pm
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Talking about GE switches and cool. Pranalli created an app that lets you use “double” use the master switches e.g. you can assign functionality to the “off” toggle when the switch is off (kind of like double tap)
Hi all,
UPDATE 10/7/2015: This app now allows you to specify independent slave switches for the redundant “on” and “off” presses.
A WORD ABOUT DIMMERS: I recommend using this app with pure on/off switches and NOT dimmers. Due to the nature of dimmer switches, this app may have the following unexpected behavior: Turning the master switch “off” from “on” may result in toggling your slave switches/lights (because Dimmers send redundant events). Additionally, dimming your lights to “0” via an app may also result in the toggle being triggered. This is because the dim to 0 is interpreted as “off” and sent as a physical event. As of right now, there is no elegant way for me to handle these situations, but I don’t think they “break” anything – just be mindful of them! I personally use thi…
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