Mix of Randomized and Non-randomized

[schalliol]

A solution has lights coming on at sunset, etc. every day. When "Away" it seems to make sense to have these continue as they normally do while other lights get randomized. Is anyone aware of how to do this?

[Bailey]

Edit the time clock events you wish and there are options for the event to be "away", "alternate", and "normal". You can select more than one, just apply normal and away to the function.

[schalliol]

I do understand that a timeclock event can be available in multiple of modes, but as I understand it, anything in away will be randomized by 30 minutes. Are you suggesting simultaneous activation of normal and away? Thanks!

[maguire]

I played around with the timeclock this morning. Unfortunately,

You are right.

* "The randomize setting will affect all timeclock settings in that mode"

The only solution, as I see it today would be:

Use an external astronomic timeclock with a relay output ( Intermatic #ST01C ), and wire the relay output to a VCRX input scene.

The external timeclock can close a contact and fire lights on at sunset and off etc via the VCRX. The RR2 timeclock can be in AWAY mode and still randomize all the events that you program.

Not a software solution, but it works, I did a similar setup with RadioRA Classic once.

Lutron could easily put this into the RadioRA2 software, but keeping it simple for the majority of programmers is key with RadioRA2, "could they?" - Yes. "Will They" - Probably not.

Chris

[schalliol]

Thanks for the great idea for a solution. However, the complexity and cost wouldn't be worth it. It seems like the standard way most would want it is to add selected randomized to whatever is normal. If used for security, it would be clear when the pattern is different if ask.

[schalliol]

I thought I'd just bump this here. I just don't understand why a normal event like dusk/dawn lighting would be randomized. There really should be a way to program this to do it. When a user goes into vacation mode, their neighbors shouldn't notice the difference in outdoor lighting.

[maguire1]

I agree! Randomizing should be turned off on Astronomic Events.
Makes no sense to have security lighting NOT turn on at Dusk.

[schalliol]

Just bumping. Does anyone know how to send Lutron requests?

It probably should now be moved to the requests forum

[Bailey]

There is at least two reps and a Lutron engineer on the board. It gets added to "the list". Several things took three years to make it into the software, so don't lose hope. First thing I asked for was the fan speed control...