I have an interesting one…
I have an outdoor camera, with a recording rule set. The rule also turns on an outdoor flood light for 5 minutes when a person is detected. The curveball here is that the flood light is on a dimmer (Zooz ZEN72). [Since it is near our pool area and sometimes we want just a little light when sitting out there.] But when motion is detected, I’d like it to be 100%.
What happens is that the rule turns the light on, but it resumes at its previous brightness level, whatever it was previously set to. I tried setting parameter 34 to full brightness (which is the brightness level when it receives a BASIC SET via association) but that had no effect.
Any ideas or workarounds since I don’t see a brightness slider in the rule definition itself?
(I’m also opening a ticket with Zooz, since in a direct association with a Zen71 it isn’t honoring parameter 34 in that case either.). But wasn’t sure if there was an Alarm.com style solution for specifically the recording rule trigger. Thank you
Thanks for bringing this up. I don’t believe there is any way to set a dimming level from a video recording rule triggered automation at this time. Setting the level ahead of time would be the only workaround I think.
ADC has been putting a lot of effort into the video side recently, I think this may be an easier sell for them to prioritize. Building out the automation options within the video rules to set dimming levels would be a good addition. Something similar to the event triggered rules setup where you can select to turn on (to last level) or to dim to a specific level with that rule.
Thanks Jason.
Ideally it would be great if they could keep the current option of selecting lights to turn off/on, but ADD the ability to trigger a scene based on video detection!!
I would think a scene would give us all the maximum flexibility.
[While they are at it, if they could :
- change the REMOTES button function/rules to trigger lights instead of just scenes
- Accept a zwave device’s status change as a trigger for an automation rule (the kitchen light turned on, so also lock the front door, etc)
If I could have all these things I’d be in heaven. LOL]
Also, update on the ZEN72… I updated the firmware so now direct association BASIC SET commands have a controllable default brightness via Parameter 34. This unfortunately had no effect on the ADC video rule brightness.
but ADD the ability to trigger a scene based on video detection!!
I would think a scene would give us all the maximum flexibility.
This is a good idea and I would love to see scenes as potential automation trigger for all types of events. It would open a lot of customization. I think Alarm.com tries to be conservative and avoid consequences of too many options. (like accidentally having a scene arm the system when motion is detected on a camera outside, and suddenly the homeowner trips an alarm because the mail showed up.)
Building the feature to automatically avoid sending conflicting commands but still allowing scenes as the triggered action would be great.
[While they are at it, if they could :
change the REMOTES button function/rules to trigger lights instead of just scenes
Accept a zwave device’s status change as a trigger for an automation rule (the kitchen light turned on, so also lock the front door, etc)
If I could have all these things I’d be in heaven. LOL]
Happy to forward requests. Scenes can be created which only control lights, could you describe the use case for assigning lights to a Remote rather than a scene? I can forward it to Alarm.com for consideration.
Sure… Basically it is to avoid having scenes that only have one device or action in them.
I have scene controllers (and switches that can trigger scenes). In many cases, it is a single button with a single device, so I have to have a ‘turn on side light’ scene and a ‘turn off side light’ scene, just to have a button on a remote control the side light. It would be great if I could just attach that button to the light directly.
Of course where possible I use z-wave associations for this, but some times that doesn’t work if different security levels, bugs in the iq 4, or other issues, and direct association is limited to the primary on/off action typically.
Also if you wanted to be fancy, like single press for 25% brightness, double press for 75%, triple press for 100%, long press for ‘turn off’ would be four scenes just to control one light from one button.
I guess now that I type all of this it doesn’t really matter - just is a lot of scenes to keep track of.
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