Hi,
I am trying to determine whether it is my app writing skills (lack thereof) or the limitations of the devices in use.
Goal: I want to able to turn ON all exterior lamps at Level 100 using a toggle tile and/or button controller and when toggling OFF have the Dimmer Level revert back to its previous setting.
At the moment I am using the "Room Lighting" app in to do this.
Dashboard at Stage 1.
Dashboard at Stage 2 having selected "Outdoor Lights Toggle" tile or via Hue Button.
Dashboard at Stage 3 after selecting "Outdoor Lights Toggle" once again (OFF).
I am close but I would like to get back to Dashboard at Stage 1.
Dimmer Level Set and Lights OFF
Presently I am able to set the Level but the lamps remain lit.
The lamps of concern are Hue Exterior Flood Lamps. Those lamps are associated with a Hue Bridge.
- I can write a RM app to deal with it but I am trying to keep management contained within the "Room Lighting" app to keep things simple as possible.
Suggestions on how best to proceed welcome and appreciated.
If there is a way to accomplish this task within the Room Lighting App I am staring through it. I ended up creating a simple app in RM that turns off the dimmable Hue Bulbs when the tile is toggled after the Room Lighting has returned the dimmer settings to their previous settings.
Addendum: I ended up uninstalling "Room Lighting" and going full Rule Maker (setting global variables to the level attribute of the lamps involved) to get lighting interaction working as I had hoped. Nice thing about Hubitat. Many ways to accomplish a goal.
Looks like you've got something figured out, but in case this is helpful for the future, the "Set Level" command will turn on a device if it's off, so that's not (normally) useful for "prestaging," nor is this supported by all devices even if it's available for some. If you are using a directly-paired Zigbee device and it happens to (according to Hubitat's Zigbee engineer) misinterpreted the specs, some of the drivers with options or commands to do this might work. Hue Bridge bulbs do not support this at all, as the API provides no way to do so. I'm not sure which kind you're using.
There might also be another way to do whatever automation you're trying to do, e.g., setting them to level 100 (or whatever you want) instead of just using a plain "on" command, if turning them on to a specific level is your goal. But if what you have works now, no need to change anything! Just wanted to mention this in case any of it is helpful.
