Double relay spare second channel ideas

[Jon Evans 0]

I have just finished upgrading a 3-gang wall switch in my kitchen to a 4-gang, with two FGS-221 dual relay switches behind it. There are only three light sets to control, so I have an unused output channel, and a spare switch which I've connected to the spare input.

Is there any way to set up the associations so that the spare switch controls all three outputs? I've tried setting up associations for Group 2, but the only channels I can see are the first channel of the other switch - I can't seem to create an association with the second channel of the other switch, or indeed the first channel of this switch.

[mvrekum 2]

Make a scene that detects the state of the spare relay and then switches on or off the other three lights.

Something like:

if relay_switch spare == 1

then

turnOn switch 1

turnOn switch 2

turnOn switch 3

else

turnOff switch 1

turnOff switch 2

turnOff switch 3

end

[Jon Evans 0]

Thanks, that worked. I've added two block-based scenes, one for on and one for off. It takes about a second to turn all three channels on of off. Making it run faster would be great but I can live with it.

[mvrekum 2]

You might want to try to put the switches in a "Devices Group". In the block scenes instead of selecting each individual device under "Devices" you can select them all under "Devices -> More Devices". This might run faster.

[Jon Evans 0]

I did use a device group. Performance isn't too bad, it's just not instant. Which for some reason confuses the rest of my family.

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[mvrekum 2]

Well, the last thing you can try is to convert your block scene to lua. Maybe that will run faster.