Wireless Remote Control for wired buttons

I have a Wireless remote control 5888TXBA, that usually controls wireless buttons, but can it be used to control (mirror) wired buttons? I've tried learning the buttons on the remote and the wired buttons but haven't had any luck.

Some of these buttons are scenes?

I've also tried to remove the other wireless buttons and with only the remote on the wireless network, it still won't work....any ideas?


Can this be done?

 

Yes, it can. The Wireless remote needs to talk to another wireless device, such as a wireless switch or wireless gateway. It cannot communicate with wired C-Bus switches directly. You need a Wireless Gateway to link the Wired network to the Wireless one. Depending on how you program the Gateway, you can have the same behaviour on the wired and wireless networks

Conceptually, the Wireless Remote is like a big long stick that "presses" buttons on other Wireless units. If, when you press the button on the wireless switch, you get the desired behaviour on both the wired and wireless, then you can link a button on the wireless remote to this wireless button. Once it receives the command from the remote control, the wireless switch will send the C-Bus message for that Group Address to the Wireless Gateway. If the Gateway is programmed correctly, it will forward this message on to the Wired network. This could be a command on a group address, a Scene Trigger, an Enable Control message... anything that the Wireless switch supports.

If the only thing you want to do is link a wireless remote directly to a wired C-Bus network, recent C-Bus Wireless Gateways with wireless firmware 2.3.0 can be put into a mode called Remote Switch mode. This mode allows a Wireless Remote to be linked directly to a Gateway without the need for another Wireless device to be involved. The Gateway can not be used as a normal Gateway in this mode however, it can only talk to Wireless Remotes. Given that you have other Wireless switches in your install already, this is only relevant if all the buttons on your existing Wireless switches are performing other functions already.

I'd be interested to know what steps you went through. If you tried to use push-button Learn Mode to link the remote to the wired C-Bus network, that will not work. You probably noticed that the wireless network did not entern Learn Mode when you entered Learn Mode on the wired network (or vice versa). Learn Mode on the wired and wireless networks are 2 independent procedures.