1-button dimming and motor control via smartphone and touchscreen
Situation
Adding an action to the smartphone or touchscreen whereby a dimmable lamp or roll-down shutter is controlled with a single push button is not possible. To allow these to be controlled via smartphone or touchscreen an additional action has to be set up. This step-by-step guide will show you how it's done.
The overview will guide you through the process for dimmable lamps as well as roll-down shutters. It also applies to dimmable lamps and roll-down shutters that are controlled with a single button and linked to a touchscreen and a smartphone. The programming logic is the same for both, but both are shown for illustrative purposes. This step-by-step guide can also be used for sun blinds and garage doors, but not for venetian blinds with tilting slats. You can use the touchscreen or smartphone to make the venetian blinds go up and down, but the slats will not be able to tilt.
Starting point
The starting point for this step-by-step guide is a project for which a dimmable lamp or a roll-down shutter has already been programmed into a single push button. If you haven't programmed this yet, follow the steps in Dimmable lamp with push button or in Roll-down shutter based on a single push button.
Step 1: Add a smartphone and a touchscreen
- Click on Creation at the top of the screen.
- Click on the smartphone icon at the bottom right of the screen in order to add this to the installation.
The icon appears on the plan. - Drag the smartphone to a logical and appropriate place on the plan.
- Click on OK to return to the Creation start screen.
- Click on the touchscreen icon at the bottom right of the screen in order to add this to the installation.
The icon appears on the plan. - Drag the touchscreen to a logical and appropriate place on the plan.
- Click on OK to return to the Creation start screen.
Step 2: Create a 'Roll-down shutter child's bedroom' action
- Click on add an action. The action will appear as a text balloon on the plan.
- Drag the action to a logical and appropriate place, e.g. to the relevant input or output.
- Give the action a name.
- Choose an existing location from the list of options or click on add a location if you have not previously defined one.
- Click on continue to go to the Players tab.
- Click on the roll-down shutters, the smartphone and the touchscreen on the plan to link them to the action.
- Click on continue to go to the Basic behaviour tab.
- Change the basic behaviour to predefined by clicking on the arrow in the frame of the drop-down list.
- A pop-up window will open.
- Click on OK to close the window.
- Click on continue to go to the Conditions tab.
- Click on continue to go to the Time automation tab.
- Click on save to return to the Creation start screen.
Step 3: Create a 'dimming child's bedroom' action
- Click on add an action. The action will appear as a text balloon on the plan.
- Drag the action to a logical and appropriate place, e.g. to the relevant input or output.
- Give the action a name.
- Choose an existing location from the list of options or click on add a location if you have not previously defined one.
- Click on continue to go to the Players tab.
- Click on the dimmable lamp, the smartphone and the touchscreen on the plan to link them to the action.
- Click on continue to go to the Basic behaviour tab.
- Change the basic behaviour to predefined by clicking on the arrow in the frame of the drop-down list.
- A pop-up window will open.
- Click on OK to close the window.
- Click on continue to go to the Conditions tab.
- Click on continue to go to the Time automation tab.
- Click on save to return to the Creation start screen.
Result
The roll-down shutters and dimmable lamp have now been linked to and can be controlled from the smartphone and the touchscreen.
You can now continue with step Cabinet lay-out or step Realisation.