Home is active when at least one person is home and not sleeping.
Night is active when everyone who is home is sleeping.
Away is active when nobody is home.
For me, this means that I turn lights on when Home mode becomes active, and I turn lights off when Night or Away mode become active.
In the Mode Lighting app, I'm not seeing an option to just turn lights off per mode. It seems like I'd have to pick at least one light to turn on in order to select a mode, at which point I can go into Options for lights off and then select Additional Switches to turn off, but in my case I don't want to turn anything on when I go to Away or Night mode. Am I missing something? If not, I'd like to request to @bravenel that this capability be added.
Square peg in a round hole. Motion Lighting's intent is to turn lights on/off from motion. If you simply want to turn a bunch of lights off on a mode change, a simple trigger would do that.
Trigger events: Mode becomes Home, Away
Action: Turn lights off
That's what I currently have....trying to go with simpler/purpose-built apps instead of doing everything in RM. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the intent of Mode Lighting? I thought it was to control lighting changes when mode changed?
Folks, I cant seem to make Mode Lighting work. I set up a mode lighting rule to turn on lights on Evening mode and off on Day and Night, but nothing happens when I change mode. What am I missing?
This app is triggered by turning on a switch that you select in the app, not just from the modes changing. If you want lights to come on from just a mode change, use a simple trigger in RM like this one:
ok thanks, I figured I just wasnt understanding it right. Perhaps this could be made more self-evident in the App or somehow?
the current description in the docs says
"How To Create A New Mode Lighting App
Mode Lighting apps work similar to Motion Lighting apps, but allow you to set lighting that is triggered by mode changes, rather than motion sensors.
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it doesnt mention anything about needing switches to trigger it. In fact it explicitly says its triggered by mode changes.
Old topic that google led me too; I’ve just run into this also... perhaps it shouldn’t be called mode lighting? Seems like it should also give a notice if it’ll never be triggered...
