Group dimmer that actually works with v2 hub?

[Wolfpack (Alex)]

Had I known upgrading to the new hub would take away big switch and a couple other smartapps, I might have been more hesitant.

I’ve tried dimwithme and virtual dimmer to control groups of lights in my living room and dining room with no luck. What else is out there?

[JDRoberts]

Dimmers appear to have broken today, I’m not sure anything’s working with them right now.

See:

Turn OFF lights after motion stops for "x" minutes is now available in Smart Lighting without the motion ON first

I guess I should consider myself lucky, 3 of my GE dimmers just won’t turn on with motion and the others turn on to last level. Oh, and the GE link bulbs act as if they are non dimmable. I have a feeling that support will come back saying that I need to uninstall all of my 30 plus Smart Light apps to start fresh…

You may want to wait till They get the poltergeists cleared out before testing too many new things.

[rsnow]

Thanks for this thread, I just lit my V2 up with one of the very first goals of being to slave two dimmers via Smart Lights (I wanted to use Big Switch). They will work together as a 3 way, but the dimming seems borked.

My question is, has anyone seen Smart Lights actually do group dimming successfully before the poltergeist invaded?

[Wolfpack (Alex)]

I tried to use Smart Lights to match dimming for a week before the Tuesday “upgrade”. It never worked for me.

[SBDOBRESCU (Bobby)]

Not before,nor after the ghosts were set free, at least for GE and low priced Leviton dimmers. There were reports by some folks that some dimmers worked for them with Smart Lighting, but certainly none of mine.

[rsnow]

I’ve got a pair of Leviton VIZA dimmers and they seem to /try/ to work, but since I set up the Smart Lights in two directions (front of of tied to back AND back tied to front) it seems to be arguing with itself. I’m disabling one of the Smart Lights instances and see how that works.

The three way on/off itself works great and the delay is about 0.5 --> 1.0s delay, which is acceptable for my use case.

[Wolfpack (Alex)]

Anyone find an app that works yet?

[jefo13 (JF)]

same here, this is unacceptable!

[DougS]

I’ve found two apps that do this. First is “Dim with Me”.

Dim With Me App Updated

All, I have updated the “Dim With Me” app. Please get the latest code from below. The update fixes a problem with some dimmer devices only setting the “level” event. Dim with me was subscribing to “setLevel” event only. It now subscribes to both. Make sure to cut and past from github using the “raw” screen. Past it to your IDE, save and publish. I’ll submit “Dim with Me” to ST soon so we can stop cut and pasting for future updates.

The second is “Trend Setter”.

[OBSOLETE] Trend Setter

Trend Setter - A SmartApp for grouping devices Read First I am not usually one for releasing stuff I write because I am my own worst critic and usually self destruct before putting anything out into the general public (I’ve revised this post more times than I’d like to count). I am trying to change that behaviour… Although I am a software engineer by trade, I am not a Java/Groovy developer so I may not have written some of the code in the most efficient way. I expect this to change from feedback and as my knowledge grows. I tend to find I use the app to control a lot of things more than anything else so this is useful for that. I have only used this on an Android phone and can’t be sure how it’ll behave on an iOS device due to the parity issues between Android and iOS apps so give no g…

I decided to try Trend Setter and it seems to be working well.

[Nathaniel_Scriven]

Agreed on Trendsetter. Thank you for posting it here.