My button is unable to toggle the light bulbs on and off

My Lutron Aurora Controller ( Button )
is what I have been using for the last few years to turn on and off the light bulbs in my office.

Using Simple Automation Rule 1.1

  • I have four light bulbs selected to automate
  • Button Pushed/Held as the trigger
  • my Lutron button was selected as the button
  • button 1
  • pushed - turn on when
  • I have the Toggle on & off selected

this worked for years...

now the toggle on & off does not work

And I have created a virtual button to see if it makes any difference... And no the toggle feature still doesn't work.

What changed when this stopped working?
Can you control all of the bulbs from the device pages?
Have you tried to enable logging and see what the logs have to say?

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It stopped working within the couple weeks I guess as I was out of town and I just noticed that it didn't work today. And it did work a couple weeks ago.

Yes I can control the device's from the device page.

When I toggle off the toggle on & off feature and press the button. If the lights are off it'll turn them on and vice versa. But the second button press does nothing.

I just started having this issue with four sengled bulbs that I have in a group. It appears that the bulbs are getting a low dim level before they get turned off so the toggle was returning them to a low state.

Might not be the issue in your case, but it looks like your is toggling on to 1%. I just rewrote my button controller for button # 7 today replacing the toggle with this.

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I would try a couple things to get to the root cause.

Maybe create a virtual switch and add that to the button rule, see if the virtual switch toggles properly. That would rule out bulbs vs the button device.

You could rewrite this in Basic Rule, and see if that makes things work properly. Just pause the Button Controller so you don't have two competing rules.

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It took 3 basic rules to do it... But it works now...

#1 - toggle the virtual switch I created with a physical button push
#2 - turn on the lights if the virtual light switch is going from an Off position to an On position.
#3 - turn off the lights if the virtual light switch is going from an On position to an Off position.

I cannot wait for them to fix the toggle on & off feature... this is a pain in the backside... LOL

Thanks, Neonturbo... I am back in business...

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Steve, I need to play around with it...
I have not done if statements in my rules yet...

but I'll need to get my toes wet at some point.

I just hope they fix the feature at this point...

I just quickly did Neonturbo's suggestion and created three basic rules for the time being.

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Glad you are back up and running!

Not to be a downer, but we still don't know what is broken, why, or what caused this failure. So there isn't anything to fix at this point until someone can duplicate this condition or you can do some testing and provide logs or other evidence of how this broke.

Anecdotally, I haven't seen other reports of this on the forums, but that doesn't always tell the whole story. If you can somehow narrow down this issue, provide errors in logs, or have further logs showing something wrong (the logs you provided are good, but I don't see a problem in there but maybe I missed something), please do report back so we can get staff to look at this. Save someone else from struggling or having a broken rule.

There are apps other than Basic Rules that might work better in this situation, I simply chose that for simplicity of setting up and testing the button vs bulbs.

Button Controller should work here, as well as just going right for Rule Machine (the nuclear option). The newer Room Lighting app also should do what you want (great new app if you haven't tried it yet), but I haven't looked specifically for "toggle" in there, I bet it is though. It may be worth checking out some of those other apps if you get a minute or two.

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Lots of good help available on here from the more seasoned guys.

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