Wondering if someone here might see what I am missing. I have a rather simple Room Lighting setup to control 2 switches. As long as I use the RL activator things seem to work quite well. The problem is that if I turn off those 2 switches, the activator stays active. I've been doing some searching here in the community but I think I have it set up correctly with 'Switches that determine all lights are off'.
The activator is a way to control Room Lighting. It does not follow the state of Room Lighting (if that makes sense). Basically, if you turn off Room Lighting via the switches themselves, the Activator Device will not follow suit. You'll need to create a rule if you want the Activator Device to turn off if the switches turn off.
Under other activation options you may need to use one of these settings.
I think that will make the activator follow the RL active/inactive better.
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That does make sense @JB10 , though I was thinking differently. I created a quick rule in Rule Machine to compliment this and ran it through it's paces (so-to-speak). I initially didn't take into account that my RL was also returning lights to their previous state but a little tweak and I seem to have this working as I want.
Mind you, I would most likely be turning this RL off using the activator too but I was trying to take into account fringe cases. For example, I doze off for a bit watching a movie and instead of first turning off Movie Lights, simply turned off the individual lights without a second thought. Need to make sure my smart home is smarter than me. lol
Including the RM rule here in case it helps anyone in the future.
I played with this a little bit also, @jtp10181 . It still didn't seem to quite be giving me the results I was after. Because of the 'restore lights' piece of this the lights would come back on when it turned off the indicator. I do appreciate the input though, I had completely overlooked this indicator setting.
