Cortex has an ability to set an on and off brightness for each dimmer (nice) which I've been playing with. Overnight I have a lamp that toggles between two levels 75% and 25%. It was in a night mode 'off' at 25%.
During the night the lamp turned itself completely off and the switch on/off control also didn't work either then or this morning, although Cortex was running. This I found was because I had Cortex 'auto update' set at 4AM and v24.02 was released. After the update and Cortex restart I notice that the on and off brightness were both now set at 0 so the light was actually controllable but both on and off were at zero brightness. I'm sure there's something I need to do to persist my on and off brightness levels but what is it ? I know Cortex saves the DB when updating itself.
This off brightness level is a useful feature although it's slightly weird to have an 'off' brightness rather than say two preset 'on' levels and an 'off'. So ..just a heads up that if you do use xAP to integrate other dimmer controls eg C-Bus , Dynalite, DMX etc that this behaviour is different on those systems (off is always off) . Because of the way xAP is integrated within Cortex it needs careful attention to get such external dimming working as expected. For C-Bus users I am about to release a new firmware version for the xAP/C-Bus gateway that improves this (it recognises Cortex as a specific type of xAP controller).
K
PS Vivian - if you want look over the nuances of this I have them documented. It's another one of those things that appears very simple but actually is annoyingly awkward to try and mimic the IDRANet modules, even in on / truly off mode.
During the night the lamp turned itself completely off and the switch on/off control also didn't work either then or this morning, although Cortex was running. This I found was because I had Cortex 'auto update' set at 4AM and v24.02 was released. After the update and Cortex restart I notice that the on and off brightness were both now set at 0 so the light was actually controllable but both on and off were at zero brightness. I'm sure there's something I need to do to persist my on and off brightness levels but what is it ? I know Cortex saves the DB when updating itself.
This off brightness level is a useful feature although it's slightly weird to have an 'off' brightness rather than say two preset 'on' levels and an 'off'. So ..just a heads up that if you do use xAP to integrate other dimmer controls eg C-Bus , Dynalite, DMX etc that this behaviour is different on those systems (off is always off) . Because of the way xAP is integrated within Cortex it needs careful attention to get such external dimming working as expected. For C-Bus users I am about to release a new firmware version for the xAP/C-Bus gateway that improves this (it recognises Cortex as a specific type of xAP controller).
K
PS Vivian - if you want look over the nuances of this I have them documented. It's another one of those things that appears very simple but actually is annoyingly awkward to try and mimic the IDRANet modules, even in on / truly off mode.
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