Spike up the dimmer level when turning on at lower dim level

I’d like to bring this thread up again. I wired my house up with reds everywhere about a year ago and have tested them against multiple brands and screw types and sizes of LEDs. Most, if not all, suffer from this ignition minumim. Lets say at night my house dims to 15% brightness then turns off at midnight. The next day, those leds can’t turn on because they’re still at 15% brightness but require 20% power to ingite.

Seems that adding a workaround to this would increase compatibility with your switches to much of the led market against this problem. It could be achieved by adding 2 zwave parameters, first, one for enabling/disabling the ignite option. The second paraneter would be a minimum ignition value.

If enabled, the switch would check the brighness value when turned on, and if its less than the ignition parameter, set the bright ess to that minimum, turn on the power, the dim back down to the value it was at originally. This would be an awesome feature to add to these switches!

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