Help programming keypad

[adeighton]

Hoping the community can help me.

My goal: press button D on a keypad, and all the lights in the basement go off.

I have a 6 key keypad, and three dimming light switches. I have successfully programmed button D to tell the three dimming switches to turn off when it's pressed. BUT, the keypad is also the switch which controls the hall light. Meaning: the load for that light switch goes to the keypad, NOT to one of the dimmers.

How do I get the keypad to tell itself to turn off that main load as part of the scene I'm programming?

[stusviews]

What at you using to "program?" An app (which one), software (which one), an ISY, other?

[adeighton]

Great question, sorry. I used two tools for programming the scene:
1. I manually entered most of the scene information using the swtiches themselves (i.e. press set, run to next switch, press-hold, repeat)
2. I also used the open source project insteon-terminal on my raspberry pi.

Does that help?

Thanks!

[stusviews]

Turn on button D, then use the set button to place the KPL into linking mode. Hold the On button until the D button stops blinking, about 5-6 seconds. Do not use the set button for this step.

[adeighton]

THANK YOU! That works. One more question then: now when I press the D button, I have to press it again to get it to turn everything off. I remember something about how the buttons can have different modes... toggle vs. select or something. How do I make it so hitting D instantly turns everything off, rather than having to hit it again?

[stusviews]

Press and hold the D button until it starts blinking and the KPL beeps (older KPLs don't beep), release and hold again for about 6-10 seconds and the KPL beeps. Release and hold a third time until the blinking stops. The button will rotate through Toggle, non-Toggle On and non-Toggle Off after each three presses as described.