Recommended Lighting Control

[ajgurrieri]

All,

I am new to homeseer and have about 1 month experience with my Hometroller Sel Pro and zwave devices. I replaced all my Lutron Caseta Dimmers with Cooper ZWAVE RF94540/RF9542 and Eaton RFWC5AW ASPIRE RF Controller Keypad light switch devices and the only thing i haven't changed out yet is the Lutron Lamp Modules and Pico remote.

My questions are:

1. I need someone to recommend the best lamp on/off/dimmer modules that I can integrate with scenes and pair up to my Eaton RFWC5AW ASPIRE RF Controller Keypad switch to turn a lamp (or lamps) on/off.

2. Also looking for a nightstand remote control for my wife and kids to replace the Lutron Lamp Dimmer and Pico Remotes. I am currently looking at the Aeon Labs DSA03202W-ZWUS remote. Is this is best remote for this?

3. Finally, I have purchased the Aeon Labs DSC18103-ZWUS Micro Smart Switch which I will be putting it in the wall in my office and not wiring it to a light switch. I want to be able to control this smart switch with a remote control (probably the Aeon Labs DSA03202W-ZWUS remote) but I wanted to see if there were instructions on how to set this up in homeseer?

I appreciate all who read and respond to my questions and kindly say thank you in advanced

[mikedr]

I can't really speak to 1 in terms of compatibility with your Cooper, but in general, HomeSeer supports basically any dimmer module very well. GEs work well with HS, as well as presumably HomeSeer's own modules.

For 2 and 3, I'm assuming the remote is the minimote (small four button remote)? If so, this is very well supported and very popular. HS can detect button presses (as well as "long" button presses), and you can trigger events off that. If you do a google search for "HomeSeer minimote," the relevant pages come right up. But in general, you can add the minimote as a secondary controller, and then everything works.

With one caveat -- later release versions of the z-wave plug-in caused problems adding child nodes, and this seems to have affected the minimote, too, even though it doesn't have any child nodes. I never had issues adding them until the later release versions. I finally got them to add after many tries. I had issues with another device that did create child devices, and the latest beta version fixed that (.94 I think), so I suspect it'll fix the issue with the Minimotes, too.

[ajgurrieri]

I can't really speak to 1 in terms of compatibility with your Cooper, but in general, HomeSeer supports basically any dimmer module very well. GEs work well with HS, as well as presumably HomeSeer's own modules.

For 2 and 3, I'm assuming the remote is the minimote (small four button remote)? If so, this is very well supported and very popular. HS can detect button presses (as well as "long" button presses), and you can trigger events off that. If you do a google search for "HomeSeer minimote," the relevant pages come right up. But in general, you can add the minimote as a secondary controller, and then everything works.

With one caveat -- later release versions of the z-wave plug-in caused problems adding child nodes, and this seems to have affected the minimote, too, even though it doesn't have any child nodes. I never had issues adding them until the later release versions. I finally got them to add after many tries. I had issues with another device that did create child devices, and the latest beta version fixed that (.94 I think), so I suspect it'll fix the issue with the Minimotes, too.

Thank you for the quick response and answers/suggestions. I am going to try the GE Dimmer module. I already have the Aeon Labs Minimote and google'd like you said how to add it and configure it with any zwave device and I found this link which is definately what i needed http://67.217.100.102/showthread.php?p=1217047

Thanks Again for the feedback

[mikedr]

Yup, that's it! I don't use these with dimmers -- rather just to turn lights on/off -- but the approach outlined in that link is what you want to do. Make sure to upgrade your z-wave plug-in to beta .94! The latest release version will give you issues with the minimote (it did for me at least).

I've attached a simple set of events that I use to press a button to turn on a device connected to a GE plug-in on/off module if the device is off, and vice-versa.