[OBSOLETE] Control lighting in great detail with button devices (Aeon Minimote, Enerwave ZWN-SC7)

erocm1231 · February 4, 2016, 9:24pm

If anyone is interested I have updated this app to support a “toggle” function. Just FYI.

erocm123/SmartThingsPublic/blob/master/smartapps/erocm123/button-controller-enhanced-lighting.src/button-controller-enhanced-lighting.groovy

/**
 *  
 *	Button Controller - Enhanced Lighting
 *  
 *	Author: Eric Maycock (erocm123)
 *	email: erocmail@gmail.com
 *	Date: 2015-10-22
 *  2016-03-28: Changed how toggle works. Now it checks to see if all lights are on/off and does the opposite.
 *  2016-03-08: Better configuration layout. Configurable number of buttons. Ability to rename app.
 *  2016-02-04: Found an execution bug.
 *  2016-02-04: Slight change to still allow choosing on & off for lights  
 *  2016-02-04: Added the ability to toggle lights.
 *  2015-11-30: Changed the app to handle double button presses. You can change the debuounce time
 *              in the config.
 * 	2015-10-26: Added a "Random" option when choosing a color.
 *  
 *	This SmartApp allows you to, in great detail, control your lighting with button based 
 *	devices like the Aeon Labs Minimote or Enerwave ZWN-SC7. Want a button to turn one
 *  	hue bulb red, one green, one blue, and one orange? This can do it. Want a single button to 
 *	turn on your overhead lights and dim your lamps to 50%. This can do it. The combinations

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pleomorph · February 10, 2016, 12:06am

Eric, you, sir, are amazing! This app was exactly what I was looking for to control my Hue lights. Thank you!

erocm1231 · February 10, 2016, 12:31am

Glad you like it.

4loveofpunk · March 5, 2016, 4:23am

This question is hopefully very basic, but almost slightly embarrassing, but here I go.

I installed this smart app because I’m pretty sure it’s exactly what I’m looking for. Got the smartapp installed without issue but when I got to set it up from mobile, it gets to the section (which is first setup screen) It says to select a button, push that, and there is no button to choose.

I looked closer at screen shots and noticed the Aeon Labs Minimote, so I went to device handlers and installed the Minimote. I’ve published both “for me” and still no choice for button.

What am I missing?

4loveofpunk · March 5, 2016, 4:39am

Well, I’m an idiot and believe i’ve discovered the minimote must be a physical device. I had never heard of it, so that’s where my confusion came from. I’m looking for something to just control many lights “on / off / dimmer” for several lights (zigbee in this case) but really does something like this exist?

dshokouhi · March 5, 2016, 8:55am

you want a virtual switch/dimmer to do that

erocm1231 · March 5, 2016, 5:53pm

So, I’m a little confused. This app is for physical devices with buttons to control the lighting. Are you thinking about using the SmartThings App to easily activate different lights? One workaround might be to create a device in the IDE and assign it the handler in this thread:

[OBSOLETE] Improved UI for Aeon Minimote Community Created Device Types

Decided to write out an updated Aeon Minimote device handler so I could do testing without having the remote in hand all the time. I’ve seen great ideas like the one that installs an individual virtual button per button device selected via Virtual Buttons SmartApp, but didn’t feel like having my device list spammed with each button as an additional device. So I went ahead and upgraded the tiles for the SmartThings Aeon Minimote device handler. Would be cool to get the main Aeon Minimote device handler updated with the UI, but haven’t had time to look through submitting pull requests and requirements/acceptable standards yet. You’re welcome to check it out at: https://github.com/kyse/SmartThingsPublic/tree/master/devicetypes/kyse/kyses-aeon-minimote.src

You should be able to set my SmartApp up using the newly created device as the Button Device, and then press the buttons from the device in the SmartThings app to activate the scenes. Just a theory, but it should work.

Whippm · April 11, 2016, 3:42am

@erocm1231 Thanks for the useful app! I have been using this for a couple months now without any problems with a v1 Hue bridge. There has never been a difference (for me) in the warm white and soft white colors, but it’s been close to the expected color.

Within the last two weeks, these colors have changed to a light green. Have you noticed any change on your end? Being more of a hardware guy and not a programmer, I looked at the code and could not see what to tweak. Not sure what “hueColor = 23” was referencing.

Any ideas?

erocm1231 · April 11, 2016, 3:47pm

I have noticed this too. Thanks for reporting this as it gives me a good idea of where to troubleshoot. I’ll take a look to see what is going on.

erocm1231 · April 12, 2016, 4:26am

Alright, it seems that SmartThings must have done something to the Hue Device Handler. I think I have it fixed. The updated code is in the github.

Whippm · April 12, 2016, 6:54am

OK, thanks! I’ll give it a try in the next day or two and report back. I almost scared to change anything with all the other crap happening in the system I don’t think your handler is affected though.

Whippm · April 12, 2016, 7:49am

OK, I had a couple cocktails and decided to give it a try, it works back to the origional colors, I will do some more testing with the whites.

I understand the need for some to check state for on, but not sure that I like it. I have one Minimote for Hue scenes and button 4 hold is to turn all off. I used to be able to switch between colors, now it goes dark in between scenes. Just a thought…

erocm1231 · April 12, 2016, 2:51pm

Yeah, I have been thinking about that as well. The problem is that it works well in some situations and doesn’t in others. For my Philips Hue stuff I just disable toggle on all the “scenes”. So I have button 1 set them to some colors, button 2 some other colors, etc. I then have button 4 (held) turn all the lights off (like you do). Did you use the toggle the way it was set up before? The way it used to be setup was you had to press the same button twice in a row and it didn’t do any checking the state of the lights before toggling. The problem with this was that if the lights were on (because some other automation turned them on), and you hit the button expecting to turn them off, they wouldn’t do anything until you pressed the button again.

Whippm · April 12, 2016, 3:38pm

Turning off the toggle should work for me too. I forgot it was there, thanks again for the support!

mterrace · April 17, 2016, 2:01am

I have a little visual issue running on IOS…and I cannot get the app to show up under Smartapps section of the IOS app…I can see it when I go into smartapps for the bulb that I am controlling…and in the IDE, under location/installed smartapps, it lists the name I gave (Button Colors) but with (dev) after it. Any ideas?

The visual issue is with the number of buttons…the numbers are blank…so I just counted down to 7…but the “7” does not show up on the main page…still shows blank (yet everything works, except it showing up in my Smartapps list in the app). Any ideas?

Thanks,

Mark

mterrace · April 17, 2016, 1:54pm

The number of button display problem is only on my iPad - my Android device it works fine…so I’m sure it is an IOS issue, not the smartapp…

I was able to get the “Button Colors” app to show up in my smartapps list and get the "dev " to go away, by unchecking the “Enable Local Child App Discovery” box in the smartapp in the IDE…although when I just went back in to grab a screenshot, it was checked again…

Anyway - Thank you @erocm1231 for this app - it is working great for me.

Mark

erocm1231 · April 18, 2016, 10:47pm

Thanks for bringing the iOS quirks to my attention. I really need to get an iOS device for testing, but Apple=$$$.

kwill · April 23, 2016, 6:37am

This is exactly what I needed in order to get more granular control over my Aeon minimote!

But, I must be missing something. I set the remote to control, chose a light (tried LIFX and my Cree bulbs) and once I go to “Next Page” to configure the options, all that I see is the option to turn the light on or off. Should configuration options like level, color, etc. be on that page also? Or am I missing something? Maybe just an issue on Windows (mobile).

erocm1231 · April 23, 2016, 6:18pm

Strange, looks to be a Windows App thing. This is how it should perform:

kwill · April 23, 2016, 9:36pm

Yep, feared that it may be specific to the Windows platform. I may be getting a cheap Android tablet for certain other small configuration naggles.

[OBSOLETE] Control lighting in great detail with button devices (Aeon Minimote, Enerwave ZWN-SC7)

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