Is there a way to control multiple lights at once?

[NC-Lou]

Is there a way to group devices to control multiple lights at once?

I would like to create a group of all of the lights in a room, this way I can send a off or on command to the group and have them all turn on or off without having to do them individually. Is there any mechanism in HomeSeer to accomplish this?

Thanks,
Lou

[Eman]

Go to YouTube and search HomeSeer Linked Devices. Or syncing dimmers together.


Eman

[jmaddox]

Yes there are several ways to accomplish this. You can create an event that lists each device and sets them to on/off. I use this method for room level control of my lights. All my switches/dimmers are central scene devices. My default is to set double tap down to turn all that room's lights off.

You can also use easytrigger to create groups and control the entire group with an event. I use easytrigger for my global all lights on and all lights off for the entire house. The nice thing about easytrigger is you can set it to only update a switch/dimmer if it results in a change. ie a light that's off wont be sent an off command which cuts down a bit on zwave traffic and speeds up execution.

Finally homeseer still has scenes; The scene can be called with an event or deployed to a scene capable controller. A scene capable controller operates independently of homeseer. think a remote button controller, or a scene capable switch.

[Spudjr]

Or create a virtual device that controls the group of lights

[NC-Lou]

Hi, thank you for the information. A couple of follow-ups

1 - EasyTrigger - I looked into it and it seems that groups might not be compatible with HS4. Do you know is HS4 and EasyTrigger will allow groups?

2 - When creating a virtual device would it be device and two events like this

Create: virtualRoomDevice

Event 1: If virtualRoomDevice changes to ON

Set device1 to ON
Set device2 to ON
etc..

Event 2: If virtualRoomDevice changes to OFF

Set device1 to OFF
Set device2 to OFF
etc..

Thank you

[Eman]

Hi, thank you for the information. A couple of follow-ups

1 - EasyTrigger - I looked into it and it seems that groups might not be compatible with HS4. Do you know is HS4 and EasyTrigger will allow groups?

2 - When creating a virtual device would it be device and two events like this

Create: virtualRoomDevice

Event 1: If virtualRoomDevice changes to ON

Set device1 to ON
Set device2 to ON
etc..

Event 2: If virtualRoomDevice changes to OFF

Set device1 to OFF
Set device2 to OFF
etc..

Thank you

Correct!


The virtual device actions (status) too can come / intiated from other events or on status of other devices should you choose.

Eman.