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How To: Set Dimmers / Switches / Keypad to dark at night

Here is a quick tutorial on how to have all the led’s on a Control4 dimmer / switch / keypad turn to black at night.

First you need to create your schedule. There will need to be 2, 1 is for the day mode, the second is for the night mode. Here is an example. Notice the 2 schedules for LED Colors On & LED Colors Off.

Next you will need to set your variables.

Now we get to do some easy programming! First we need to tell composer that when LED lights is true to black out all th led lights. You need to do this for every led that you want to turn black. This is how it should look.

Now we need to add the programming to allow them to light Back up during the day. This needs to be in the same script as the above programming. Note that these are programmed based on the on and off status of the device.

Next go into programming, scroll down to your scheduler, and select led colors on schedule. For led colors on you will select set variable led light = true. For led colors off you will select set variable led light = false. Here’s an example for this. Don’t forget to go to your led lights off scheduler to set the variable back to false!

All done right? Well not really. This works fine for Dimmers and Switches but for a Keypad as soon as you touch a button, the button will light up. So here’s the fix.

Since we are still in programming scroll up to a key pad in the room you want all the led’s to black out. Select one of the buttons on the Keypad. Check the release on that button. You first will drag in a conditional. In the right pane you will select the variable led lights again. Select the conditionals tab and check false.

And now the last piece of the puzzle. In the right pane scroll back up to the keypad and select the button you are programming on. Select all current and change the led color to black.

Now you are all done. These last steps need to be done on all individual buttons on keypads you want to black out. Now that you’re finished GET SOME SLEEP!

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