Dim lights during night time?

[mamu 0]

Hi,

first of all:I am new to the fibaro system!

Is it possible to dim the light during the night time (e.g. 0:00 to 6:00) to 10% and use the full power (100%) during the day time? I have no idea how to setup the dimmer.

I am using the HCL.

Thanks in advance.

Sam

[MalvinYNJ 4]

Set 0:00 as a trigger to dim the lights to 10%,

6:00 as a trigger to turn on the lights to 100%

It's very straight forward.

[alandee 79]

Hi

Welcome to the forum..

HCL using blocks scene you can try the attached. not sure if it will work, I've never tried it .. replace dimmers with yours and set the time and days you want it to trigger accordingly ? do another one with lights set to 100 % for say 6.00 am ..

also make sure you set it to run when HCL starts and tick active scene also..

Cheers,

al.

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[Guest David R]

I think he means when the light is switched on manually. I do this but im using lua.

[alandee 79]

Hi David R, yeah, I'm not a blocks expert, and don't have an HCL, and I can't get to my HC2's to test, but if using Fibaro dimmers won't it grab the last brightness setting ? ( I'm almost certain that is a parameter setting ?? ) and all I'm doing with the blocks is setting the brightness prior to manually turning it on ?? we don't actually tell it turn the lights on ... or, and it's quite possible, now you've planted a seed of doubt .. I'm no longer sure..

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So if there is a dimmer param to start at the last dimmer level, and if the blocks above turns your lights on then just do it once at say 8.00pm to 10% and then throw another line [then dimmer == turnoff] in there and you're set ? and do it to 100% at say 6.00am in the other one, turn on 100% then turn off.

Cheers,

al.

[klumpo 2]

On 1/13/2015 at 3:04 PM, Guest David R said:

I think he means when the light is switched on manually. I do this but im using lua.

Hi! Can you please show us the code? I'm after the same thing as the original poster, but I have HC2 so I can run LUA code. ?

 

On 1/13/2015 at 10:29 PM, alandee said:

Hi David R, yeah, I'm not a blocks expert, and don't have an HCL, and I can't get to my HC2's to test, but if using Fibaro dimmers won't it grab the last brightness setting ? ( I'm almost certain that is a parameter setting ?? ) and all I'm doing with the blocks is setting the brightness prior to manually turning it on ?? we don't actually tell it turn the lights on ... or, and it's quite possible, now you've planted a seed of doubt .. I'm no longer sure..

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So if there is a dimmer param to start at the last dimmer level, and if the blocks above turns your lights on then just do it once at say 8.00pm to 10% and then throw another line [then dimmer == turnoff] in there and you're set ? and do it to 100% at say 6.00am in the other one, turn on 100% then turn off.

Cheers,

al.

I tried this but it didn't work very well. The light would not be 100% during the day, and it would turn on and off when I pressed its switch... ?