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Trying to understand a dynamic lighting solution
I am sorry for making this confusing, lol. There is no load wired to the 6 way switches, they are only being used as remotes to control a scene. There is 3 scenes total. There is a PD scene, a HH Scene and another scene called HHPD that turns on both HH and PD's Switch, not the scene. Attached is a picture of the layout. It is a lot more complex then my example, but hopefully it explains it better. The PD and HH scene is controlled by a regular dimmer with load. There are two 6 button switches that control HHPD with the big on and off(these 6 button switches have no load). On the top two buttons of the 6 button switch, there are 2 scenes one to control HH's Scene and the other to Control PD's Scene independently. There is no toggle modes currently and no functions on this switch at the moment.
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Trying to understand a dynamic lighting solution
So, I have been trying to program a few scenes for the last few years and constantly get stuck where I have to write overly complex programs that pick and choose when to work completely. I was hoping firmware 5.X would solve this, and kinda does, but not completely. In brief, I am trying to make a scene light up if an object in the scene is on, but not the whole scene, thus allowing me to see on a keypad that something in that scene is on without activating the rest of the devices in the scene. Below is my shortened scenario: Equipment: (2) 6 Key Insteon switches. - (FD) Front Door and (KT) Kitchen (Example Below) (2) On/Off Insteon Dimmers. (HH) Kitchen Hi-Hats and (PD) Pendant Dining FD and KT HHPD ON HH ON/OFF PD On/OFF Blank Blank HH+PD OFF Current Scenario: 1. Press HHPD ON and both HH and PD turn on as well as Scene HHPD (Example Below) HHPD ON HH ON/OFF PD On/OFF Blank Blank HHPD OFF 2. If I turn off both HH and PD manually then HHPD stays on even though all lights in that scene are off. (Example Below) HHPD ON HH ON/OFF PD On/OFF Blank Blank HH+PD OFF 3. If I turn on just HH when everything is already off then HH is on but HHPD stays off. (Example Below) HHPD ON HH ON/OFF PD On/OFF Blank Blank HHPD OFF Ideal Scenario: 1. Press HHPD ON and both HH and PD turn on as well as Scene HHPD (Example Below) HHPD ON HH ON/OFF PD On/OFF Blank Blank HHPD OFF 2. If I turn ON HH then HHPD should light up, but not activate the scene HHPD(thus not turning on PD). (Example below) HHPD ON HH ON/OFF PD On/OFF Blank Blank HHPD OFF 3. If HH and PD are on and I turn of PD then HHPD should remain lit up, but not activate/deactivate the scene HHPD. (Example below) HHPD ON HH ON/OFF PD On/OFF Blank Blank HHPD OFF 4. If I turn Off HH and no other device that HHPD controls is on, then HHPD's light should turn off without me pressing HHPD off. (Example below) HHPD ON HH ON/OFF PD On/OFF Blank Blank HHPD OFF I am not sure if this is a limitation of insteon or if there is a better way to attack this with programming (which I have tried a lot of ways). I am happy to export my whole homes programming if anyone is curious to what I have done so far. It is quite more complex then just the example. Thank you in advanced for any help that comes my way.
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