[2.3.3.130] Lights Activator doesn't pick up correct state

[bravenel]

@joel

I then have under activator, the actual activator device. Its a bit counter-intuitive as the room lighting activator states that is should be already controlled by the activator device but I still had to add the device manually as an on/off activator to get it to actually activate.

You should show your RL setup page, as this does not make sense, and is not needed if you have RL create the Activator device (just like Group-2.1 creates its activator device).

@joel

That works well enough but I get a bit of pop-corning, where the lights will turn on and off 1 at a time.

This sounds like you don't have it set up right at all.

@joel

Another option that I see potentially is setting up multiple activator devices, basically a button that turns on and off for JUST the light switches and a separate bulb activator for color temp control, as if I only use the bulb activator it tries to change color on a temp only bulb every time and screws up the level.

The lights will follow the activator device, just as they did in Group-2.1

@joel

Ill turn on a bulb using the bulb activator and it will turn on to 20% brightness, and 6500K temp, the activator device will say its happily at 100% and 2430K or something, and bright red, and I pull the rest of my hair out.

This again sounds like you don't have it set up correctly at all.

@joel

I then change the color (on a color temp only bulb) to white and it immediately goes back to 100% brightness matching the activator device, though the activator device still has no clue what color temp it is even though the activator table clearly shows the right temp. Im thinking 2 way communication doesn't exist between the activator and the activator device which doesn't make sense to me but Ill keep messing with my test bulbs to see if I can get it any more consistent.

The Activator Device overrules the table. In fact, for a group the table isn't even used other than that it shows the current values of the lights. The Activator Device commands all of the grouped devices to follow it.

It sounds as though you are confusing a Scene and a Group. A Scene has different values for each light, and the Activator Device either Activates it or Turns it off -- used only as a switch. A Group is a bunch of lights that follow the settings of the Activator Device.

See this post:

How to use Room Lights for Groups

There seems to be a fair amount of confusion about how to set up a group in Room Lights. Before getting to that, let's define what a 'group' is: A group is a set of lights that should all respond identically to an activation device. By turning on the activation device, all of them should turn on. By turning it off, all should turn off. By setting it to blue, they should all be set to blue. For Room Lights to have a group, we first need to select the group member devices in the pull down for…