bjohnson

Hi all, I didn't see info about this in my searches, but if my search-fu is not strong, please point me in the proper direction. My question/issue is in regards to the 'From' scheduling option in Programs. I have a scene that consists of a living room light and some controllers. I have it programmed thusly: if: from [early evening] to [later at night] then: set scene on else: set scene off Why is the 'else' statement required in this case? Without the 'else' statement, my scene does not turn off at the end of the 'from' schedule. It would seem that all the 'from' does is guarantee that the scene will be active during those hours. It does not reset any scenes to their pre-program levels. Now, in most cases, this (with 'else' statement included) works fine. The light comes on at the scheduled time and turns off at the scheduled time. Here's the problem: If I want some extra light in my living room during the day, naturally I would desire to turn on the living room scene and bathe in the illuminating glory. However, when I do, the program above understands that any time during the day is explicitly not within the 'from' schedule and activates the 'else' statement turning my living room light off. As mentioned above, removing the 'else' clause prevents the program from turning the scene off at the normally scheduled time. This seems counterintuitive. I would think the 'from' statement would be meant to simplify turning a scene on and off at specific times, but it's just complicated it. Shouldn't it be meant to replace separate programs for on and off (turn on early evening, turn off later at night) with a single unified one? I find myself needing to add Folder conditions to prevent the program from running or another 'disable' program each with their own duplicated 'from' statements to compensate. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Thanks.