Hello, I am trying to accomplish some light automation. I have inovelli switch/button scene units and Hue bulbs with hub. I have the Hue room groups added under groups and scenes. And I have a basic rule under simple lighting set now to set the appropriate scene (color temp) based on time of day (sunset/sunrise) based on button push.
What I would like to do is set a transition from scene 1 (daylight) to scene 2 (warm white) at sunset, but ONLY IF the lights are already on in that room. Is an luminescence sensor the only way? Can I use the switch/button status to get that from the room?
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You should be able to use Rule Machine to simply check the status of whatever lights you want, and then activate the new SCENE based on whether or not the lights are already on. The Trigger for RM 4 would be SUNSET. You would then add an conditional action (an IF/THEN statement) that uses one of the Hue bulbs to determine of the lights are on, and THEN change the SCENE.
ok, I think I got the rules in place, we'll see how it works. RM4 was not intuitive. I used RM3.
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Ok, I had to move my rule to use individual bulbs to get status instead of the Hue groups. The rule is working, but the bulb status as to which the rule is kicked off from doesn't change unless I change the status of the bulb in Hubitat. When I use the zwave wall switch via a rule in hubitat or Hue app, the bulb status doesn't change in the device parameters and the rule engine won't execute the rule.
Ideas?
