How to control a special dimmer switch

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I use a set of rf switches with a remote control for about 10 years. Now I want to control these switches with pimatic.
3 switches are normal on-off switches. I can control these switches as usual with ON and OFF buttons of a remote control.
The 4th switch is a dimmer switch. It’s control is done with the ON and OFF buttons of the remote control too but in a very special way.

On and off of the dimmer switch is done only with the ON button of the remote control - one press of the ON button -> switch is on, next press of th ON button of remote control -> switch is off, next press -> on, next press -> off - and so on.

The OFF button of the remote control is used to control the dimming. One press of the remote OFF button starts an automatic changing of the dimming. If a lamp is connected to the dimming switch it goes from darkness to maximum brightness (in about 3 seconds) and back to darkness and this is repaeting until I press the remote OFF button again. Then the state of dimming is stored.

If I now switch with the remote ON button the switch on and off it returns always to this state of dimming. And if I want to change the state of dimming I have to use again the remote OFF button as described.

My main interest is to control the switching on and off with pimatic. The state of dimming I can further on control with the manual remote
control.
I need a configuration of a pimatic switch device which is sending the same code to switch on and to switch off.

The configuration shown below works for the 3 normal on-off-switches (with different ids, names and unit codes of course). But it does not work for the dimmer switch:

 {
     "id": "dimmerswitch",
     "name": "Dimmer Switch",
     "class": "HomeduinoRFSwitch",
     "protocols": [
       {
         "name": "switch3",
         "options": {
           "houseCode": 16,
           "unitCode": 2
         }
       }
     ]
   },

Using pimatic GUI to switch on is done. But switching off with GUI starts dimming control as described above (because it’s like pressing the OFF button on the remote control). To add “state”:true to the options does not change anything.

@StefanG
without debug data it’s some kind of crystal ball guessing
but i think it could work with the following device

   {
      "id": "dimmerswitch",
      "name": "Dimmer Switch",
      "class": "HomeduinoRFDimmer",
      "protocols": [
        {
          "name": "dimmer1",
          "options": {
            "houseCode": 16,
            "unitCode": 2
          }
        }
      ]
    },

@leader21 I’m fairly new with pimatic and not sure what debug information you need to give an advice.
Your suggestion “dimmer1” did not work.

When I use the manual remote control and press the one button that switches alternatively on and off - the following debug messages are received repeatingly:

debug [pimatic-homeduino]: received: [ 204, 384, 848, 9148 ] 02020221022102210221022121212121212121210221022103
debug [pimatic-homeduino]: data: "RF receive 204 848 384 9148 0 0 0 0 01010112011201120112011212121212121212120112011203"
debug [pimatic-homeduino]: doorbell1: { id: 1367, unit: 1397, state: false }
debug [pimatic-homeduino]: led4: { id: 5461, command: 'code:00010100' }
debug [pimatic-homeduino]: contact3: { id: 961198, contact: true }
debug [pimatic-homeduino]: contact2: { id: 961198, contact: false }
debug [pimatic-homeduino]: pir1: { unit: 16, id: 2, presence: true }
debug [pimatic-homeduino]: switch16: { id: 'A', unit: 3, state: false }
debug [pimatic-homeduino]: switch15: { id: 87377, unit: 0, state: true, all: true }
debug [pimatic-homeduino]: switch14: { id: 87377, unit: 2, all: true, state: false }
debug [pimatic-homeduino]: switch8: { systemcode: 16, programcode: 'F2', state: false }
debug [pimatic-homeduino]: switch7: { unit: 0, id: 0, state: true }
debug [pimatic-homeduino]: switch5: { id: 961198, unit: 0, all: true, state: true }
debug [pimatic-homeduino]: switch4: { unit: 16, id: 2, state: false }
debug [pimatic-homeduino]: switch3: { houseCode: 16, unitCode: 2, state: true }
debug [pimatic-homeduino]: switch2: { houseCode: 16, unitCode: 2, state: false }
debug [pimatic-homeduino]: shutter5: { id: 87377, command: 'down' }

No RFDimmer found with this code.

But if this code is sent once to the dimmer switch it is switched on. If I could sent the same code once more so the dimmer switch would be switched off again (as I can do it with the manual remote control), But I’m not advanced enough with pimatic to see how to do it.

well, then first of all welcome to Pimatic
sorry to hear that my example doesn’t work.

anybody else with a dimmer device has some advice ?

@leader21 Thank you for your welcome and your help. I have seen that you are one of the people who keep the pimatic wheels rolling. Thank you specially even for that.

@StefanG
thx a lot, appreciate that
well hope someone can get your dimmer device working

Hello all,

I have exact the same problem with my KAKU 310SY. The dim function is exacly the same as decriped above. When I use the normal Kaku switch, you see that it is “working” but I don’t know exactly how to make an on button and an off button.

I think you should use a RF Buttons device for this

    {
      "id": "light",
      "name": "Light",
      "class": "HomeduinoRFButtonsDevice",
      "buttons": [
        {
          "id": "onoff_bt",
          "text": "On/Off",
          "protocols": [
            {
              "name": "switch3",
              "options": {
                "houseCode": 16,
                "unitCode": 2,
                "state": on
              }
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "dim_bt",
          "text": "Dim",
          "protocols": [
            {
              "name": "switch3",
              "options": {
                "houseCode": 16,
                "unitCode": 2,
                "state": off
              }
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },

You must adopt you own settings.
It should work so.

It didn’t work, but I found now a way to use it.
I Made 2 buttons and 2 rules to switch on/off and dim. Works perfect with Trust (KAKU) 310SY

Devices:

{
  "id": "systembuttons",
  "name": "Dimmer",
  "class": "ButtonsDevice",
  "buttons": [
    {
      "id": "uit",
      "text": "aan/uit"
    },
    {
      "id": "aan",
      "text": "dim"
    }
  ]
},

and

{
  "id": "wallplug2",
  "name": "Dimmer",
  "class": "HomeduinoRFSwitch",
  "protocols": [
    {
      "name": "switch4",
      "options": {
        "id": 14,
        "unit": 27
      }
    }
  ]
},

and the rules

{
“id”: “dimmer-uit”,
“name”: “Dimmer uit”,
“rule”: “if uit is pressed then switch Dimmer off”,
“active”: true,
“logging”: true
},
{
“id”: “dimmer-aan”,
“name”: “Dimmer aan”,
“rule”: “if aan is pressed then switch on Dimmer”,
“active”: true,
“logging”: true
}