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GE Link Light Bulbs
BrianAg95 9 years ago
in Things & Capabilities / Non-"Works With SmartThings" devices
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updated by Brett 9 years ago •
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So I am testing ActionTiles out, and I have some "unofficially supported" LGE Link Light Bulbs.
When I imported them into my panel, some showed up with dimmer control, and some did not. I am not sure why they would import differently. I verified that in smarthings app I have dimmer control over each light that in actiontiles doesn't have a dimmer control on it.
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This KB might be applicable...
http://support.actiontiles.com/topics/1038-question-mark-shown-on-virtual-switch-or-other-connected-thing-tile/
Can confirm, I have 2 of these and one has the dimmer and one does not in the panel. Checked the KB and it shows ok.
I suspect that the one not showing dimming might not have a current value set for dim Level.
One light has level(dimmer) and the other does not. So it sounds like that is the issue. Not sure how to do the Location / Settings / Synchronize in ActionTiles though. Is that in My Location? I'm not finding anything that says synchronize.
The Synchronize function is in the ActionTiles App, after you find some way of getting SmartThings IDE to show the level Attribute for the device.
I have the same problem. 3 GE Link bulbs. 1 with dimmer, 2 with out. The dimmer works in the ST app after a refresh, but the IDE for 1 shows level and the others don't.
To confirm: Are these GE Link Bulbs all connected to SmartThings directly or are they connected via a Hue Bridge (or something else)?
I have 3 GE Links all connected via Hue Bridge and they're fine, but that is a completely different Device Type Handler.
Do you know who authored the Device Type Handler that you are using? If someone can pull the source code and have it initialize the value of "level" in all situations, then I think they will work much more consistently with ActionTiles!
All directly connected.
Mine are connected directly through SmartThings. I have no idea how to initialize the level so I ended up switching out the lightbulb with an Osram Lightify bulb that works.