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Tue Dec 12, 2023 11:08 pm
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Vig
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Sorry I am not describing this properly, will try with an example, might be a long read though:
I have 3 dimmer switches in the kitchen controlling the same light, one of them is naturally connected to the load.
When I adjust the light on any of the 3 switches the other 2 instantly pickup the state since they are all linked directly (without Indigo). The load-switch is configured in Indigo as an Insteon device. When I use Indigo Touch to operate the load switch it accordingly changes its state and sets the light to appropriate level, but the other 2 non-load switches don't seem to be aware of the load-switch state (or should they? maybe I am not linking those switches properly?). So in order to get the other 2 non-load switches to match the load switch state I created a trigger in Indigo that matches the state of the load switch with the other 2 switches whenever the load switch changes its "Brightness level". That way all the non-load switches synched to the same state of the load switch, and if I operate any of non-load switches manually after that, they know where is the "starting point" when I do dim/on/off.
That seems to work, at least most of the time. But there are instances when I would manually turn on/off the light using non-load switch - that instantly turns on load-switch, that triggers my Indigo Trigger, which I assume lags, and picks up the wrong state that in turn sends to the non-load devices.. I had a case when I would hit the switch to turn Off and watch how the lights would go Off, then On, then Off again, sometimes several times, all in 2 or 3 seconds apart, and that's what I meant by the "loop".
The "loop" doesn't seem to happen if I disable the Trigger so I thought if there was a way to create a "special" type of Trigger that would only be activated on non-manual switch operation (operated from software only) might solve the problem.
It could very much be my wrongdoing, just trying to figure where that might be..
In the screenshot: "Kitchen Lights" is the load-switch, "Kitchen Lights2" and "Kitchen Lights3" the other non-load switches.
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