jbs Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 I know this can be programmed, but if you want to do it throughout the house there's HUGE processing overhead and considerable lag time. I'd like to see the capability to set not only the LED color on a switch/dimmer or keypad, but also whether it's solid, fast blink or slow blink.I use the LEDs on my 60~70 switches as a convenient status indicator of my alarm system. They'd be even more useful if I could throw in blinking without having to program "set to red" "delay one second" "set to blue" "delay one second" "set to red" etc etc etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil12011 Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 you could do it with a loop and a delay of milliseconds... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipperman19 Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 you can even do it without a loop (with a work around) if you're using home edition. It just requires a little more programming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbs Posted April 17, 2008 Author Share Posted April 17, 2008 Yup, as I said . . . I know this can be programmed, but if you want to do it throughout the house there's HUGE processing overhead and considerable lag time. . . They'd be even more useful if I could throw in blinking without having to program "set to red" "delay one second" "set to blue" "delay one second" "set to red" etc etc etc.While in theory you could program this, in reality for a project with many switches it would be unlikely to work that well and it would bog down the rest of your system because you'd be firing off commands to each of the switches to change each of their LEDs every few milliseconds. Totally impractical I think.Moreover, if you were to program this as a system-wide function, you'd probably want them synchronized so that the switches which were slow blinking all went on at the same time and off at the same time. You couldn't really do that with codes and delays, but you could do it through some sort of centralized blinking feature . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanE Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 Yeah, blinking a whole set of LEDs would not be recommended, just due to the amount of Zigbee traffic required.RyanE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbs Posted April 18, 2008 Author Share Posted April 18, 2008 Yeah, blinking a whole set of LEDs would not be recommended, just due to the amount of Zigbee traffic required.RyanEJust to be clear, I think you're saying that a program-driven blinking LED would not be recommended, but not that having future versions of the switch/dimmer firmware support a blinking setting would necessarily be a problem, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil12011 Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 hey, I say have an blinking agent...when dimmers/switches first power on, they blink like a disco ball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbs Posted April 18, 2008 Author Share Posted April 18, 2008 and actually come to think of it, dimmers blink when they are in transition (either ramping up or down) so maybe it's already "in there".But a multi-color blinking agent would be party-licious --Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanE Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 No, I know of no MIB message that will cause any LED blinking in the firmware of any of the devices.RyanE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willosof Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 That's probably why this is the wishlist-thread We want implementation! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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