Recommendations for scene switches

[nathancu (Nathan Curtis)]

I sue a Cooper Aspire RFWC5. It’s PRIMARILY only a Zwave Secondary controller. So it supports direct manipulation of Zwave scenes and devices by associations including dimming functions via press and hold. (works great for direct manipulation and offline control of my Graber (sprins) blinds) The cool part is Scott Ainsworth added a ST DTH on top of it so that you can program it through SmartThings, read the button states and even react to button presses to automate other Smartthings items such as Scenes through webcore.

[OBSOLETE] Cooper Aspire Scene Controller RFWC5 and RFWC5D Device Handler [beta release]

Here is a link to the DH for the cooper aspire scene controller device handler. I have done limited testing with my two controllers. If you have one of these controllers please give it a try. The file can be found on git hub at the repository below. The path below is the git hub location for 1.9. It sounds like you have it set right. The configuration process is slow and will take several minutes. It’s best just to watch in the logs and don’t touch any buttons. Push the configure scenes button again and wait for it to complete before testing. The scene controller DH can provide the following functions via smartThings: It will provide 5 buttons with button pressed events that can be used to trigger events in ST. This functionality works with the Smart Lighting app. It provide…

So I get the best of both worlds. The buttons of my controller are associated with

• ALL dining room blinds (Zwave Association)
• Top row of Dining room blinds (Zwave Association)
• Bottom Row of Dining room blinds (Zwave Association)
• Close all doors (Webcore Piston)
• Goodnight (Webcore Piston)

The button to the right of the device is an all off to any device directly associated so it ends up being an all close to the blinds.

The blinds controls work offline because of ZWave Association.