Well, are you building a cinema???
Anyway, the functionality you are targeting is possible with EventGhost but it requires something rather different than what we have discussed so far.
What we have now:
- you have an action that is able change the dim level up/down in steps per device
What I have understood that you need
Some components that
- can trigger a number of devices to dim to their individually configured "watch movie" dim level
- via a remote control can configure dim levels individually per device
- provide the same but also for "pause" and "stop" with their specific settings
- can allow you to with a remote fine adjust the all dim levels up/down
According to my opinion, this goes beyond what is really feasibly with a TellStick Duo device and those cheap RF devices. For this solution to be fool proof, I would change to a technology that operates faster, and therefore *virtually operates in parallel* and that provides status feedback like Z-Wave.
The limitations with TellStick and the RF devices are
- TellStick is too slow to create a Classic dim
- TellStick can't operate several devices *in parallel*
- There is no status feedback from the devices so you can't really know the actual dim level, you can only hope that it is correct according to what you just sent out (but if this is changed outside your control, you are lost)
- You can't set a specific dim level with the current available remotes.
With this in mind, I would consider a different approach, trying to make the best out of the stuff you already have.
I have modified the plugin so in this new version we keep track of the current dim level also if we use the normal 'dim', 'on', 'off' and the 'dim gradually' actions. Further more, I have reverted back to the percentage settings again since it seems to work fine now and the same is presented in the Telldus Center as well. To see the actual levels that are being used also printed in the log, you can check the 'logfile' box in the plugin setting.
One limitation is unfortunately that the TellStick cannot dim multiple devices with different addresses at the same time, it has to be done in sequence. Alternatively you can program all devices with the same address, then they will all be dimmed synchronized.
In essence, I would try something like this:
a) Group the 'dim gradually' actions for devices you like to control with one button press into the same macro (add a ''Wait" between each action if you have devices with different addresses, long enough so that the previous action can finish before the next starts). You can imagine the macros as a 'scenarios'
b) Create one macro for each scenario you need, 'Watch Movie', 'Pause', 'Stop', 'End', 'All Off' etc
c) Add actions to each macro (you can copy from one to the other and then change the configuration of the copies)
d) Assign one remote button for each macro (if you use a standard remote, you could use the normal 'play', 'pause', 'stop', 'off' etc buttons)
e) The actual configuration of the dim level for each device in each scenario you have to set in the corresponding action
f) Create an additional fine adjust macro for 'dim up' where you put a 'dim percentage' action for each of the device addresses you use and configure them with the same step size. Assign one remote button for 'dim up'
g) Do the same for 'dim down'. Assign one remote button for 'dim down'
Below some pictures that shows a simple example of the above.