GE 12729 dimmer

Installation Home Assistant OS
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I have a GE12729 Toggle Dimmer switch. I am still learning since I am very new to HA and zwave. I was hoping someone could help me out by either say it is not possible or lead me in the right direction to make this work. My idea when I bought this was that when we manually turn this light on by tapping up on the toggle once that i could have the light do a transition to fully brightness over about a once minute time frame. I have been trying to get this working by following the scene and automation examples in this thread. Hue lights will not transition to on but will to off I have gotten this to partially work but the transition; doesn’t work it just goes to full brightness. the other is i think i need a way to first set the dimmer to say 25% brightness and then call another step to do the transition from 25% to 100% as the light will turn on to its last brightness state.

I don’t know if this can be accomplished in the switch settings using some kind of config tool that will set this on the switch directly so HA doesn’t need to be involved at all or if it would need to be done in HA. I see multiple posts about an open zwave tool that is able to be opened but i cant figure out how to do that as I am running HASSio on a RPI3 and the directions I have found about it have you getting to the command line of the pi in order to get it open. From what i can see the zwave manager under configuration in HASSio does not seem to have all of the options for configuration as what the Open Z wave tool does.

Thanks for the help in advance.

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You can set full OFF>>Full ON transition time in config using open zwave control panel

I am not certain how to accomplish this with integrated open zwave tool used by HA docker image, Has.IO or HA venv.

Mine did this naturally but timing was about 5seconds.

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this can be accomplished in HA. No need for Open Z Wave Config or any other piece of software. first take a look here. Scroll down about 2/3 of the way to the section about the 12729 Smart Dimmer. This tells you what the parameters are to change the dimming step and duration. Then in HA if you have config: and zwave:in your configuration, you’ll see a configuration entry in the sidebar on the frontend. in that configuration page will be a zwave section. Select your dimmer switch in the node list and scroll down. There will be a “Node Config Options” section where you can select your parameter and set the value to what you want.

EDIT: I’m running HA 0.55 but I think the z wave config options has existed since at least 0.49 or so, maybe 0.51. I don’t use hass.io, just HA in a docker container.

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Ok so either I’m not understanding how to make this work or the switch just cant do it.The configuration options are only the dim steps and transition time. There is a Z-Wave dim command how ever I would need to get the state of this switch prior to sending a z wave dim command which doesn’t happen until the light is on.

Currently straight out of the box the switch turns on to full brightness when it is toggled up. when it is toggled down it transitions to off over about 4-5 seconds.

What i would like it to do and this is where i need the help. Instead of turning on to full with no transition I would like it to turn on to 25% with no transition and then transition to full over over a 1 minute duration.

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I dont have these switches anymore so I cannot test.

With that said. You can do this with automation.

1.create switch
2.switch ON triggers an automation
Automation>>switch ON 25%>>wait 1sec>>ON 28%>>wait 1sec>>ON 30%…ON 100%
3.switch OFF triggers an automation
Automation>>switch OFF

Use another automation to set Automated switch state based on real switch so both manual ON/OFF doesnt create mismatch

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how do you do a wait in automation?

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- alias: 'Lights OFF when room empty'
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.room_motion
    from: 'on'
    to: 'off'
  sequence:
    - delay:
        minutes: 10
  action:
    service: switch.turn_off
    entity_id: switch.ge_12722_onoff_relay_switch_switch_11_0