Modify Ramp Rate on GE (Jasco) Dimmers

Devices & Integrations
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Thank you very much for the help. I think I got it working, so what I did created a device handler from source, which created a “Enhanced Dimmer Switch” for me, saved published, so I went to my devices picked a dimmer and changed from “Dimmer Switch” to “Enhanced Dimmer Switch”. Closed the app, relaunch it and turn light on, clicked on fix ramp rate (nothing happened), turn off the light and I see it still dimmer the light but seen to be a lot faster, which is really nice.

Now couple questions:

Do I have to switch it back to “Dimmer Switch” from “Enhanced Dimmer Switch” on my devices?
If I do switch it back, will my settings be reverted?
In the event that I would like to reset them the way they were before, how can I do it?

Thank you very much.

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Excellent!

I would so that your device runs local on the hub.

Nope, I did exactly that. All my settings held. They’ll only go away if you exclude the device from the hub. I believe when you do that it reverts settings back to factory (I think).

You can go back and use the code that you used to make your original changes, but this time change parameters 7, 8, 9, 10 back to the defaults (1, 3, 1, 3).

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Thank you very much for all your help. :slightly_smiling:

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This changed everything for me! Thank you very very much!

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46

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!

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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.

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48

Thanks. I’ll give it a shot when I get home.

Pablo’s code only worked initially, then it went back to default somehow.

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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)?

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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 restrict the Device handler only to Jasco/GE dimmers.

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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.

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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.

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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% brightness). If we then turn off the switch, the next time we tap the switch to turn it on (or my Smartthings hub instructs it to turn on), it turns on at 1% brightness. How do I make the switch “forget” the brightness level of the last time it was on so it turns on to 100% brightness?

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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.

As an example I have a rule that ramps one of my particular lights to 100% when it is turned on during the day.

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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)

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Is there a way to use CoRe to mimic the double tap functionality that is common on many of the on/off switches? Press and hold dims. Double tap up goes to 100% every time.

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Set level to (100%)

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@MichaelK would you mind sharing your full piston? Have trouble wrapping my head around it in core.

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not sure if what you and i mean by “RAMP” is the same but here goes-
Also by no means a CoRE expert- so you might find better answers in the core thread(s):

If
-lightswitch changes to on
AND
-time is between sunrise and sunset
then
-set lightswitch to 100%

we hit the switch in the AM and it ramps (per the ramp rate settings in the switch) to the % from the night before. It realizes its been turned on and then ramps it to 100% (again using the ramp settings in the switch). There’s not any real rate/time precision .

If you dont like the switch settings then maybe you want have core ramp it by going to 1% wait X, 2% wait X, 3% wait x, etc (obviously fiddle with times and % increments to fit your needs) ? You could set a rule that whenever you shut the switch off it goes to 1% and then off again. That way it’s always starting from 1%. But maybe the CoRE threads have better ideas.

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I think you have one of the dimmers with the older firmware. On mine, calling set to level on its own - or when the switch turns on - immediately sets the level to 100

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Thank you so much! It works great!!!