When I add my Dimmers they seem to show up with two entities, though only one is controllable.
Very annoying — anyone know why this might be? I’ve tried excluding and re-including several times and can’t seem to fix it.
The manual shows that the FGD-212 has two switches, S1 and S2 (optional). Do the two switch entities not reflect that functionality, S1 and S2?
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Ah… So that’s it? It’s creating zombie entities for S2 even though they’re not used? Is there any way I can delete them? Or is it just a case of taking control of Lovelace to only add the S1 entities?
You made my heart skip a beat thinking I might be able to independently control two lights with a single dimmer module via S1 and S2. Would have saved myself so much grief if that were possible rather than trying to cram so many modules into the backboxes!
Ah… So that’s it? It’s creating zombie entities for S2 even though they’re not used?
Well, that’s my assumption. The manual seems to indicate if you use S2 it will send Z-Wave commands.
HA doesn’t know you aren’t using functionality the device provides. You can just disable the entity if you don’t need it. Just click on it, click on the gear icon, and there’s a toggle switch to enable/disable.
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Yes, with those Fibaro Dimmers, you can program Scene activation to them on S2 (at least in Fibaro Home Centre). You can configure Single, Double and Triple Click functions.
You can use scenes in HA as well. This is the trigger yaml from one of my automations. I use this with a regular outdoor PIR sensor connected to S2.
platform: event
event_type: zwave_js_value_notification
event_data:
node_id: 22
value_raw: 22
node_id is the Z-wave device ID and value_raw is the scene number. 22 is for hold. You can find all the scene IDs in the Dimmer 2 manual.