How to get Red Series Dimmer to stop power reporting?

[BertABCD1234]

@skarden

So, while modifying the code as suggested may be at the coding 101 level, when it comes to this language I’m at level zero.

You’re using Inovelli’s driver, right? So you had to install the code at some point. (Whether you did it yourself or via HPM, but even if you used HPM, that is custom code, too.) If you’re dealing with the LZW31-SN driver, all you’d need to do is go into Drivers Code, find the Inovelli LZW31-SN driver you’re using, open it, and replace line 1385, which should read:

if (debugEnable) log.debug "refresh()"

with:

log.debug "refresh()"

i.e., just remove the if (debugEnable) part. Spaces and tabs don’t matter, so there is truly nothing you can mess up here if you just change that part of the line, no matter how you do it, and if you still mess up, all you have to do is paste Inovelli’s current driver code over your modifications like you did to install it the first time (or run a repair if you used HPM).

I know it seems daunting if you aren’t into code, but I promise you, nothing will be messed up if you do that — and it’s that easy to go back even if you do.

How to disable power meter report?

I don’t see anything obvious in their driver that would cause refresh() to be run when debug logging is enabled, but perhaps there is some convoluted chain of calls that would make that happen. However, it should be noted that disabling debug logging will hide the “refresh()” lines from the log, perhaps masking the fact that it is still being called, and will also hide some “raw” information coming back from the device (you may not see an “info” log unless it actually gets parsed into an event,…

This is what I mentioned in the other thread (another reason, IMHO, that it’s confusing to spread these requests across multiple threads and forums, but I digress).

In any case, I still suspect the problem originates outside the driver, with some app/automation on your hub calling this command periodically. This is just a way to verify that disabling debug logging isn’t simply hiding the problem (because I don’t see any reason that its state should affect whether refresh() gets called).