Create New Room Lighting App for Each Scene?

[jacobgraf]

I am almost completely migrated over to Room Lighting. For the most part, I like it and see the benefits, but the one thing that still has me scratching my head is scenes.

In my example, I have Master Bedroom Lights Room Lighting app and then I have a Pico remote I use to activate and turn off those lights. I can also specify, per mode, the brightness for those lights, etc.

The issue is that I want one of the buttons on my Pico to set the lights dim. Not based on time of day or hub mode, I just want the one button to dim all the lights to 50%.

Would I set up two Room Lighting apps for the Master Bedroom? (Basically, 1 for each scene?) Would I set up 3 Room Lighting apps? 1 for each of the scenes and then one for the main room lighting app to control those scenes?

If so, is there a naming convention I should follow? Something like "Master Bedroom Scene (Bright)" and "Master Bedroom Scene (Dim)"

Any other tips/tricks for getting this to work how I want? Am I missing something or over-complicating anything?

Thanks!

[jtp10181]

I have a couple where I do this, and have a Bright and a Dim. I am using the dim scene typically but have a button mapping to set them to bright (all lights in room at once this way).
These lights I do not automate the brightness per modes, to do that I think I would use the [Dim] scene and adjust as I wanted. Otherwise if you wanted to keep the Dim option always the same then yes you would need a 3rd instance to do the mode/time based automatic adjustments.

Here is how I name mine

[jacobgraf]

Interesting. Thanks for sharing!

So this is how "Scene" functionality is designed to be used in Room Lighting then? Create multiple room lighting apps for each scene?

[jtp10181]

As far as I know, I think it was the same way with the old Scene app as well, each instance could only have one set of settings for all the devices.

[jacobgraf]

So I've got this set up, but one thing that feels weird is the off button on my Pico. I have two different scenes (one bright and one dim) but when I press the off button on my Pico, I want it to turn all those lights off. Should I create a 3rd scene called [Off] or just turn both scene activator switches "Off" for the off button on the Pico?

[jtp10181]

Just pick one to use for off, if you are doing it via button controller you don't even need the activator device anymore:

Its a special action that got added to RM/BC recently

[jacobgraf]

Ohh sweet! That's handy!