Sylvania Dimmer Bulbs and ST

@Boris M… The only Zigbee controlled lights Lowes sells are the Sylvania model number LED11BR30/DIM/IQ/B27/RP. Sylvania also makes standard Ultra Series LED bulbs that fit into lamps that don’t currently support Zigbee.

BTW… Got home from work and tried out the bulb after having my Hub upgraded by ST today. It works!!!

@John Essey Hopefully yours work too.

Got home, paired it back to the hub, works like a champ. It took 1-2 minutes to get the right device type to show up in the app, and for a moment I was unable to use the dimming slider, but it worked shortly after. I’m going to add my second bulb tonight (I hope). I must say I am now very very fond of the horizontal sliders of my other dimmers, whereas this one is the vertical slider. No complaints though, glad to have another working device in the mix.

@Coryds. I’m replacing an Intermatic I have (HA05C), and placing another outside under a covered porch.

I can see them when I add devices, but can not control them what so ever. Any ideas what I am doing wrong? I set them to Zigbee dimmers in the device type and they flash 3 times after being enrolled, the icon changes from on to off and the dimmer slider will respond, but the bulbs stay at full brightness.

@scooterMGee

You’ll need to get your hub updated. Contact support and they should deb able to help you.

Well I got the labs update installed on my hub, re- enrolled the bulbs and still have no control of them. I have set the type to ZigBee dimmer, and still no control of the bulbs.

@scooterMcGee

Labs update is different than the update for the Sylvania bulbs. Contact support and they should be able to help.

I’m thinking more and more about getting multiple sets of these bulbs. Does anyone know of a way to ‘group’ multiple bulbs together so they would work as one button?

@jking3, Do you have access to the IDE

I do. I guess there is a way to do it there. I’ll take a poke around.

Thanks.

J

@King If you could shed any light on how to do it in the IDE that would be helpful.

I was thinking however, it would be cheaper to get a dimmer capable LED lights for about $10, then get a Z Wave dimmer switch if you were doing several lights on one switch.

@jking3,

Get my “Virtual Dimmer” device type and install it (link below). Then install my “Dim with Me” app. Pick what bulbs you want to be connected to the Master “virtual dimmer” and you should be good.

You can use this to group the bulbs as a fixture or a room. As you change the master, the slaves bulbs follow along. While the master is a dimmer device, you can pick regular on/off only bulbs/switches to be slaves too. They’ll of course just go on and off.

Virtual Dimmer:

Dim With Me:

Twack

@wackware If you could be so kind and elaborate on how this is set up. I have two Sylvania bulbs as ZigBee dimmers in my entertainment room which are working correctly as individuals. I’d like them to all dim in unison so I don’t have to set the levels for each one. I’m new to this, so I do not have any other switches or dimmers (yet).

I added the better-virtual-dimmer.device.groovy as a My Device Type, but I did not checkbox any of the capabilities. (Is that where I went wrong?)

I then added a My Devices using the Virtual Dimmer device and it showed up in my Things mobile UI.

I installed dim-with-me.app.groovy as a Smart App in the Convenience category but I don’t see anything in the mobile UI.

Smartthings really needs a wiki so that people like me who work in devops as the ops guy can write up docs for others to use and not bother the developers :slight_smile:

I feel like there is some really cool stuff happening here… i’m going to pick up some of these bulbs and see what happens. Unfortunately, Im a bit lost when it comes to installing things such as “dim with me”. Is there a wiki or something where i could do some learning?

Also, If a firmware update is needed for things to function - why isnt ST rolling this out to everyone? Why leave it to the customer to come across its existence on a forum and have to contact care?

EDIT:

Actually after thinkering around, I was able to use @wackware code to get it working in the simulator. Now my question is : How do I get that master switch to show up in my app in real life? :slight_smile:

EDIT 2:

Figured that out too… guess i should stop posting when I hit a wall to keep from looking like a dummy.

@lucasscott Can you let me know what you did? I think I’m stuck at the same point you were…how do I get the virtual dimmer to show up in mobile UI?

@eisenhowerj

Assuming you already have the coded the virtual dimmer and it shows in “My Device Types” in the IDE. Do the Following:

Go to “My Devices” and create a new device by clicking on “+ New Device”
Write the name “Virtual Dimmer”, Device Network “2323″, select “Virtual Dimmer” for Type and click Create
Now if you go to the app you should be able to see the newly created switch.

I was missing that part.