This has been happening for a few weeks. I'm not sure exactly which build the issue started with, but it didn't always do this.
I'm using a combination of a door contact and motion sensor in "room lighting" to turn on the lights. Recently the lights do not turn on, and when I open room lighting to see whats up, it claims the instance is "active", even though indicators inside the app are aware the lights are off. Screen shot attached. How is this possible and how to remedy?
What do your logs say? That's usually the first step in trying to figure out the issue.
With that said, the quick way is to add "Activate even if partially Activated." This way Room Lighting will still turn on the light even if it thinks it's activated, but the light is off. You could also add the Light switch turning off as a Means to turn off along with a "Switch that determines all lights are off" in the options. All of this would help provide some cover if the logs appear to be normal.
This isn't what really matters (at least not unless you have an option in RL selected to look at a specific state to determine the Active or Off state of the RL instance). RL wants to be in control -- at least by default -- and tracks its own state, as determined by your options. There are options you can use that will probably do what you want without needing to change much else, such as the one @JB10 suggested above. I'd start there.
The suggestion to look at (or enable if needed) logs is also good, as then you'll get more clues as to why RL doesn't think it's "Turned Off." This has to be because you didn't get a Turn Off event as specified by your RL configuration, regardless of whether the actual devices are off (did I mention RL wants to be in control by default?).
For more, you may want to look at the Room Lighting docs to see how it works: Room Lighting | Hubitat Documentation. Otherwise, I think the explanation above is enough to explain what is probably happening in your case, so hopefully all of this helps!
A turn off event is either: room lighting turns the device off after 15 min, or if I press off on the switch. I made sure I added the second one for this reason, so room lighting knows the lights are off. If they're off, one of those two things happened.
My logs are enabled. When this happens I get something like this: activation event, not activating already activated.
I'll enable the partial activation as a work around, but this shouldn't be necessary if RL is doing what it's supposed to do. This option is for configurations commanding multiple devices, I'm turning one light on and off.
What type of lights and motion sensors are being used? Zigbee, Zwave, WiFi, Matter?
I’d also add the lights to the Switches that determine all lights are off option. It provides another cover to the Means to Turn Off.
Zooz Zwave contact sensor, Bosch and NYCE zigbee motion sensors, and Inovelli zwave dimmer.
I’d also add the lights to the Switches that determine all lights are off option. It provides another cover to the Means to Turn Off.
For means to turn off lights I have the switch already there, pressing off on the dimmer tells RL to deactivate the scene. Is this what you mean? (it's on the screenshot in the first post)
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