It’s possible to change the ramp rate of GE switches, but I’m not sure the best way to do this in smart things. I only really want to set the values once per switch, and I want to use the same value for all my dimmers. My first thought was to create my own dimmer device type and just throw in a one…

Thank you so much Pablo! We have two of the GE dimmer switches in our basement and for whatever reason the ramp up was drastically different between units. I was able to get them the same!

I made a device handler with the latest Dimmer Device Handler from smartthings and with configuration options, so no need to edit the code. Its less hacky than pablo’s but still very inspired by it. [image] desertblade/Enhanced-Dimmer-Switch Enhanced-Dimmer-Switch - Smartthings Dimmer Sw…

Thanks. I’ll give it a shot when I get home. Pablo’s code only worked initially, then it went back to default somehow.

Hi, I gave this a try and it seems to work on my “Leviton” VRPD3, but it only seems to work for ramping up, not down. Did I miss a post about that or is it just not implemented in this code (or just not compatible)?

Not entirely sure if Leviion supports these settings. Did not see the product in the zwave alliance list, but found it on the Leviton site. It makes no reference to the settings that is used in the GE/Jasco Dimmers. I am re-working this some, and with the new ST zwave fingerprinting going to restri…

I followed this logic and set 7 and 9 to 99 and 8 and 10 to 1. = which in english is me telling the switch to go from 0 - 99 percent brightness in 1 time period. Which roughly translates to full on/off in ~ 10 ms. And it is nearly instant once I used those values.

I am a smartthings newbie. Can someone point me to step by step direction on how to access the parameters for my GE Dimmer Switches? I installed GE Z-wave dimmer switches throughout my home. Whenever someone presses (rather than taps the switch to turn it on), the switch turns on very dim (e.g., 1%…

the instructions with the ge’s list all their parameters that can be modified. I don’t recall that there is a setting to ignore the previous dim %. You have to teach people to tap. :slight_smile: kidding aside- you can use the CoRE smartapp to make a custom app to adjust the levels. […

[image] MichaelK: As an example I have a rule that ramps one of my particular lights to 100% when it is turned on during the day. Which action are you using to get it to ramp smoothly? With CoRE’s (software) “fade to level” I get a very choppy ramp (3 distinct levels)

Modify Ramp Rate on GE (Jasco) Dimmers

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zjwise (Zach Wise) August 19, 2016, 8:41pm 51

don’t know if anyone is still following this thread, but found some updates on the ge/jasco dimmer switches that probably explain some of the problems others had. Sounds like faulty firmware prevents setting some of the zwave ramping parameters.

https://community.openhab.org/t/change-brightness-level-smoothly-on-ge-jasco-dimmers-12724-45715/11868/20
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