Dashboard to Change Light Colours

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I am creating a dashboard to change a lights colour.
This needs to be as simple to use as possible.
There wil be 8 tiles and each tile will turn on a specific colour (a tile for blue, one for red etc).
I do not want to change the brightness, just the colour, so I cannot use scenes(?).
But if I use virtual switches, then none of the other tiles turn off when another tile is selected so I end up with all the tiles showing as on, so the active colour is not known by looking at the tiles.

How could I use RM to turn off all other virtual switches, except for the one that is currently in use and set the colour to the selected one.

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Okay, I just created a rule for each virtual switch turning on. Each rule turns off all the other virtual switches and sets the colour for the associated light. Lots of rules but it works.

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Flakie, there is an app that does exactly what you want. Check HPM using light as tag.

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Thanks, I have installed HPM but the search brings up a big list of Apps. I will have a look through them now.

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Is Package Manger supposed to refresh the repositories every time you hit the browser back button?

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Thanks anyway but I am going to stick with my virtual switches and rule machine :slight_smile:
I know what I am doing there. HPM is slow searching for me and now gives an error when I move to next page: Error: Cannot get property 'licenseFile' on null object, so I uninstalled it or tried to. Even that gives an error.
Update: removed it now.

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