This way based on setting you could do different things when the schedule flips from Morning to Day when home, away, or vacation...
Hope this makes sense! I don't want to have to keep modes for each and every one I would just like to put house in away, vacation, or home and then the times of days causes rest to happen
As a workaround, some people use virtual switches to track one or the other. The default set of modes conflates time and presence, which has never made much sense for the way I use them, mostly for differences in lighting automations that are mostly time-based. I chose mode for that. (I don't use Away mode and have other ways of controlling HSM, thermostats, and whatever some people do based on presence--which I also don't rely on 100% for anything.)
The disadvantage to switches is that nearly every app gives you at least the ability to restrict execution by mode, and many (Motion/Mode Lighting, Rule Machine, etc.) give you options to easily do different things per mode. Some apps have ways to use (real or virtual) switches for a similar outcome, and with a rule you can of course do anything you want.
I've seen some people create different modes like Away-Night and Home-Night, but that seems messy to me.
I did almost exactly this. I used Rule Machine to figure it all out, Mode Manager didn't do a good job doing what I wanted it to.
A couple users were pretty snippy about "why I needed so many modes" when I posted this last time, but there use cases for so many modes, especially when we work swing or 2nd/3rd shifts. Day and night don't really exist like someone with an 8-5 job with shift work. With two people on separate schedules, who knows when we are going to be home...
When you rely on modes to turn on/off or dim lights, set thermostats, and more, you need to be fairly specific about home VS away.
