Dimming with thimer functions

The kids are forever leaving the lights on everywhere so I am going to have to put timers in for all the lights they use.

Problem is that most are on dimmers and I can't work out how to retain the dimming functionality and trigger a timer as well? Basically a long and short release should (re)trigger the timer.

Is this possible?

Mick

 

Ashleigh's suggestion will work, but only if the unit has a firmware version higher than 1.00.

Early units' START function always turned ON the load (so you would have no way to turn off the load).

Fortunately this shortcoming was discovered fairly early in the history of C-Bus.

 

I assume you are talking about the Short Press Micro Function and not some extra function I dont know about.

Thanks for the pointer

Mick

 

No new key press events. Just Pressed = Short press.

Just pressed is a more accurate description - the event will happen at the instant the button press has been established (after the debounce time) irrespective of how long the button is held.

Toolkit calls it short press - I'm not sure when this crept in, but it seems it's here to stay.

 

Thanks

I also wanted that clarified in case there was anyone in future reading this as well.

Mick