How to prevent jasco switched from resuming their dim level

[blairdee2000 (Blair Dee)]

I just installed a bunch of ge/jasco dimmer switched in my house and so far they work great but I have a questions…

when i dim a light using smartthings and then later turn it off, if i press the wall switch to turn it back on, it turns back on to the dim level it was previously set to. I would rather have it always turn on to 100% when I press the wall swtich.

I know I could accomplish this using webcore but I am wondering if there is an easy way to set this at a hardware level or if there is an easy setting in smartthings or something.

[NomadTech (Daniel Ionescu)]

@blairdee2000

if there is an easy setting in smartthings or something

There is not.

[blairdee2000 (Blair Dee)]

thanks for the response. so just to clarify, without using webcore, there is no way to make the switches do this?

[nathancu (Nathan Curtis)]

Correct. You are fighting the builtin functions of the switch. The only thing you can hope to do is wait for the switch=on event for each switch and set to 100% or if you have the 14xxx series Z-Wave Plus devices, do something like assigning on 100% to one of the double tap actions.

[clsanchez77 (C L Sanchez 1877)]

This is what I do in Webcore. I perform a Turn On and then set the level. I find a delay is not required. I also find with dimmers, you can skip the Turn On and go straight to set level. The last thing I do is I set my lights to level 100% and then Turn Off if the off function is driven by an Away Mode or Good Night mode. What this does is sets the switch to remember 100% if anyone manually turns it on.

Without Webcore, I am unaware of a method…which is one of the reasons I am transitioning from SmartLight to Webcore.

Also, I wanted to add, have you looked at the GE/Jasco DTH for the new series on/off switches and dimmers? It includes about 6 different numeric settings in there that I have not explored yet.

[blairdee2000 (Blair Dee)]

Thanks for the responses!

So I do have the new 14 series zwave plus switches.

How would I go about assigning something to the double tap? That would be perfect.

[nathancu (Nathan Curtis)]

Because you were talking about the dimmer, read this thread…

[OBSOLETE] GE/Jasco Z-Wave Plus Dimmer Switch With Double-Tap

Looking at mine I have an older model that is labeled as V3.0e on the back and a newer model that is labeled as V5.0b and has 14294-2 on it. If you still have the manual Jasco told me that if the manual lists all 3 association groups it is for sure the newer version. You can also try using this DTH for it and see if it works or DTH Z-Wave Tweaker [BETA] Z-Wave Tweaker can tell you what association groups your device has, if it only has group 1 it is the older model. Jasco tells me they only made about 1,000 of the old version.

There’s a similar custom device handler for the switch too if you have some of those.

[rontalley]

I have some of my lights set to turn on at specified level during specified times. Before sunset is set to 90%. After sunset is set to 40%. Night Mode is set to 15%.

I find it best to say:

If light changes to On
Then
–If
Time is between x and y (before sunset)
And
Level is not in the range of x and y
Then using light
Set Level to X

–If
blah blah blah (after sunset)
Then using light
Set Level to Y

–If
Mode is night…

Takes about a second or two for light to goto the correct level

You could also say:

If light changes to Off
Then using light
Set level to x
Turn Off

This makes the light do a quick flash to the level you set then turn off.

I found this to be a little annoying so I prefer the first method.