Room Lighting Help Needed - Dimming Lights

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Hi,

So I want to give Room Lighting a go (this seems like an incredibly robust application) and read through the documentation + played around with it.

I'm still a bit lost / overwhelmed and want to see if it's possible to do the following:

Trying to Accomplish:

  1. Adjust certain dimmable lights based on time of day - Morning, Sunset, Before Bed.

Here's what I'd like it to do (I'll give one time of day example, the rest will work similar):

  1. Track 5 or more different lights (Morning example). I only want them activated if they're already on, or are triggered by physical or digital (dashboard app). I do NOT want them to automatically turn on.

Conditions:

  1. IF any of the lights are ALREADY ON and morning hits, adjust the level slowly up to 100%.
  2. IF any of the lights turn on for the FIRST TIME (physical or from dashboard), set the level to 100%.
  3. IF any of the lights are ADJUSTED after they're set to 100% (say 70%) - and turned off - and it's still in the morning period - they get turned ON again....I do not want them to go back to 100%. Leave them at the level they were set (70%).

I currently have this setup and works well in WebCore. I'm wondering if I can convert these pistons over and do this in Room Lighting.

Additional Question:

Also one thing I'm seeing is that Webcore has a feature called "fade level." Essentially it does what it says - If I have a dimmable device set to 100% ...and I want it turned down to 40% in 40 seconds...this will achieve this.

I'm noticing this does not work with my Z-Wave dimmable plugs in Room Lighting. It seems if the plug doesn't respect the Set Level command with Duration, it won't work. Is there an alternate way to achieve this like Webcore has?

Thanks!

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Response to your conditions:

  1. The only way to do this in RL is if any lights are on, it will then set ALL the lights to the level(s) set for that mode. So lights may come on by themselves.
  2. This can be done in RL with the "Activate only activating switch" option. I use it in my Kitchen for this exact purpose.
  3. Not sure what you mean they get turned on again? But if you have a light that is on already and then is adjusted, RL will not do anything, so that would work fine.

Not in RL that I know of, RM has an option to simulate a fade by sending multiple level commands, I assume that is what webcore is doing.

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I use mode lighting in the motion and mode app. It sets brightness at certain times of day.

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I believe the feature in RL came from the motion and modes lighting app, in my experience though if you have a group of 5 lights and only one is on and the mode changes, it will then set all the lights to the designated level for that mode. This will possibly turn on the other lights. If there is a way to configure it not to do that I have not found it.

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Thank you, appreciate the response.

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