Room Lighting - Not turning off when Mode changes

[KJ_the_Hub_N00B]

Hi, I'm using Mode Manager to change modes based on time of day - Morning, Day, Evening, Night. I have a room lighting setup for one room, I want the lights to turn on when Morning and Evening Modes are activated, and the lights to turn off when Day and Night modes are activated.

The activation events work fine but the turn off event does not cause the lights to turn off. I can see the log entry (after the morning mode):

Turn Off Event: 'Home' mode Day

And similar after the evening mode:

Turn Off Event: 'Home' mode Night

Anything I can check to try to understand why this doesn't trigger the turn off on the actual devices?

[bob.t]

KJ,

I tried room lighting for my outdoor mix of bulbs, and had similar issues. In the end I created scenes for yard lights (mix of color, white lights, and outlets), one for each mode I wanted to trigger. Now, creating the scenes was its own learning experience (noob here too), but once sorted out a Basic Rule works flawlessly:

• When mode becomes Evening ...
• Turn on Scn.Yard.Eve
• Wait until mode becomes Night, then ...
• Turn on Scn.Yard.Night
• Wait until mode becomes Day, then ...
• Turn off Scn.Yard.Day

There's probably other ways to a similar end (and I'm sharing my thoughts in part to see what others have to say that I might gain from too), but that's what worked out for me.

...bob

[KJ_the_Hub_N00B]

Thanks Bob.

Before I go down the path of trying your suggestions, I will give it one more go on Room Lighting.

I have stuck with using Modes but instead of only selecting two modes, I selected all the modes that cover the whole day:

I'm only interested in lighting in the morning and evening modes, so I configured the day mode like this:

For reference, the morning mode looks like this:

I then setup the Means to Activate and Means to Turn Off like this:

This change seems to resolve the issue. When the mode changes from Morning -> Day, the turn off event is triggered for the Morning period and no activation event happens for the Day period.