I have a scene to turn on all my outside lights. I use a rule in the Rule Machine to trigger the scene at dusk. My first attempt was to trigger the lights in the rule itself. I did not have the greatest outcomes there, even when putting in short delays. I then read about putting a scene together and then triggering the scene. I did that, it was better, but still some lights stayed off. I noticed that the state of the lights was not always correct, so it didn't turn on lights it thought was on.
My latest rule polls all the lights and then activates the scene. At night another rule triggers the Outside Lights Off scene.
The first shot shows the log from the scene. You can see the scene logged on and off.
Note that after the Scene is logged on, I look at the Groups & Scene menu and see that both the Outside Lights on and Outside Lights off scene are "On"
Although it references room lighting really any task that triggers a lot of activity at the same time will run into this issue. Bottom line, try staggering them by a few seconds.
Hi. All Zwave devices. I have one zigbee device on the hub, not part of the scene.
Regarding the spacing out the commands, I initially had it as a rule only and put delays in. Also, when i click activate scene, everything comes on right away. Scene has 5 or 6 devices in it.
I'm sure its not related but i put a delay on all devices in groups - I've got 17 groups and I set a larger value the more devices are in the group. that stopped my problematic on/off's a long time ago. Maybe others might report doing this as well.
I picked up on the delay a while back from a previous thread. I have 50ms delay configured for the group. It's only 6 devices. Shouldn't be a big deal.
