I’ve been looking for some z-wave dimmable plugs that support transition. The old inovelli NZW39 (which I only have one of) supports it, but I need a second plug that does. I’ve been using an automation that does a loop which simulates slowly brightening over a period of time but it really floods the network. I believe the NZW39 shares the same design and hardware as the Eva Logik ZW39 but I’m not sure if the firmware supports transition and I really don’t want to waste money on yet another z-wave dimming plug that doesn’t support the ability to transition. I have a couple of the minoston plugs and they unfortunately don’t support it.
Does anyone know of a z-wave dimming plug that is currently available to purchase that supports transition?
Here is a list of all the Z-Wave dimmer plugs. How exactly are you dimming the plug in your automation? I have 300, 500, and 700 series dimmers and I am able to dim the all at the same time by using the Perform a level change action. How long it takes the plug to dim is determined by the configuration parameters. I just send a single command to start the dimming process and a single command to stop it. So it does not flood the network.
Currently I’m using an imported function in node red that when triggered to brighten by a few % every few seconds over the course of about a minute or two.
Hmmmm, I might be able to get by doing something similar. It looks like the minoston plugs have two separate dimming speed controls. One for on/off and one for dimming. These are in my bedroom and sometimes I just want the lights on/off dimming at the default speed (which I think is just a few seconds) and in the morning I have them slowly get brighter over the course of about a minute so I don’t blind myself. The only problem would be at night sometimes I adjust the lights to dim down a bit as I don’t want them at 100% right before bed and during that time I’m ok with it dimming within a couple of seconds.
I still would prefer actually using the “Transition” feature of light.turn_on / light.turn_off actions to control how quickly the light brightens and dims instead of all this hackery.
Sadly I tested changing the dimming speed config value on the minoston and the longest it’ll go to is 10 seconds. With all my inovelli dimming switches the value is set to defaults (3 seconds regardless of what the trigger is), but in HA if I call light.turn_on, set a transition to 60 seconds and tell it the end brightness is 100%, it’s a single command that it sends to the switch and the switch will automatically take 60 seconds to increase the brightness to 100% without any further communication between HA, the z-wave controller, and the switch besides the final report.
Edit: For anyone wondering (if anyone is wondering) here’s the node-red package I added which assists with dimmers that don’t have the Transition capability GitHub - mochman/node-red-contrib-light-transition: Node-red light transition
Well I decided to bite the bullet and bought the Eva Logik ZW39. Sadly it also doesn’t support using transition in the light.turn_on call. It completely ignores it and goes to max brightness within a couple seconds. Thankfully I should be able to return it. Yes it does support changing the configuration parameter to lengthen the transition but the max is 10 seconds, and then it will always be that way unless I change the parameter again.
action: light.turn_on
data:
transition: 60
brightness_pct: 100
target:
entity_id: light.evalogik1
