That's not a feature of Room Lights, but you can use Button Controller as shown above to do it.
Okay, so in your example, "scene 2 b" is a regular scene and not part of Room Lighting?
Okay, so I think we are going in circles here. I am asking that this feature be added. This is how I achieve my instance.Under the double tap section. Each Scene is a separate scene. I wish to achieve the same via the RL app. And to be able to "Toggle" each RL by mode" in the same fashion.
There is not need to use conditional statements if only using the single scene activator for the Room lighting instance. I just use toggle already in the room lighting instance. I need a way to "Toggle" a different mode lighting scene within the room lighting.
Sorry, not happening.
This is an edge case. What you're asking for would add significant complexity to RL. There is a way to do what you want that's not difficult to set up (use copy / paste actions).
Okay, so in your example, I would need as follows instead.
If (Scene 2 b Activator is off for mode Dawn) THEN
Activate scene 2 B for mode Dawn
ELSE
Off: Scene 2 B Activator
End-IF
I can't seem to figure out the first line.
"If (Scene 2 b Activator is off for mode Dawn)"
this should achieve what I need. Is it possible?
The Activator only has on and off states, not states per mode. It's just a switch. So "off for mode Dawn" doesn't make sense.
So is this right: It's not mode Dawn, it's some other mode right now. If the lights are on, I want to turn them off. If they are off, I want to Activate them for Dawn. Or are you wanting some more complex determination of their present state, other than just on or off?
If you really need to do this conditioned on which of the different modes set up in RL was last activated -- last turned off, that could be achieved. But I'm really missing how that should matter.
So how can this be achieved?
It does matter as I prefer the scene to activate per mode by default (Via button 1 of the scene controller). But depending on the situation, I sometimes need to activate a different lighting by mode. i.e. its night time and the light are dim per mode, but I am instead having a party so I need more lighting, so I want to activate the "Day" mode.
Your example would mean that to do so, I must hit the button twice. The first press would turn OFF all the lights in the room. The second press would activate the "Day" mode lights.
Having to turn the lights off jut to turn them on seems a bit silly.
Perhaps a change in the "Means to activate" section of room lighting?
Allow additional lighting by mode to be activated using different buttons or devices?
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Well, for this scenario, toggle won't do you any good either, no matter where it is implemented.
It seems to me that you're making this overly complicated. You can certainly have a button action that activates each mode, and another action on those same buttons that toggles each mode (as shown above). These are clearly different things to do. So they have to be invoked by different means.
If you really want to use a single button action to either just activate or toggle, depending on some state, then that state needs to be available to be tested. This could be done by setting a virtual dimmer to different values, one per scene. Then the test is what value is the dimmer, and what state is the switch.
Okay, so the virtual dimmer is defiantly outside the box, but sounds absolutely doable. It's still not the "Mona Lisa" of room lighting I'm trying to propose. But should at least irradicate most of the clutter I have to deal with. it reduces the virtual devices (I am lumping activators in with virtual devices) from 4 to 2. and also allows me to consolidate the scenes from 4 to 0 and use Room lighting for the scenes.
OK, but you're making contradictory proposals. One is toggle per mode (which won't work for your scenario above), and the other is activate per mode; and you want these all on a single button action. Like I said, this is way too much complexity, and I'm willing to bet that you will rarely use this "feature".
I technically use this regularly for each room. Sometimes just ton find something that fell on the floor (Increase the lighting if its at night).
I don't exactly see anything contrary. I'm just proposing different ways to "Toggle" each "Sub scene" of the room lighting independently in the hopes that one may seem a more reasonable approach. I also need a capture device for each (Current the RL app requires you to go into the mode section and re-capture using the button on the page). I don't re-capture very often, but its basically something the others in the family demand. They refuse to go into the HE app to try to recapture and state this is overly complicated, "Why can't I simply press a button to save the new lighting mode?".
Came up with this, its more "Hubble space telescope" than "Mona Lisa", but it works to "Toggle" as needed. Still leaves out the re-capture part (Solution still needed for that).
RL offers a capture device option.
For each mode? I'm having trouble finding that. I thought that only would capture for the current mode? not if you're outside the current mode.
Yes, it captures for the current mode. But you can set the mode (temporarily) to the one you want to capture.
Okay, right, but I don't want to change to mode for the whole house just to capture the scene. This would arm or disarm my alarm and turn off all lights in the house in some modes.
OK. A lot of complexity to deal with. Can't really see wanting to pile on yet more complexity as a solution.
Perhaps the problem is that you should be using separate RL instances instead of putting all of this on one instance. The complexity arises due to that. RL instances are free, and easy to set up using Clone app.
Im already using separate scenes and activators. And that works. Its a "Beautiful Mind" sort of solution, but works. My goal is a "Even Homer Simpson Can Do it" Solution in a single RL instance.
