Controlling a scene with another scene?

[walkman9999]

Good day all,

 

I have two mutually exclusive scenes that should never be on at the same time. One is the lower light version of the other. Each scene has a keypadlinc button assigned as a controller. Lower light scene ("Low Hang") uses button "B", the higher light level ("High Hang") uses button "C" across all my keypads.

 

Is it possible to have scene "B" turn scene "C" off when it is activated, and to have scene "C" turn off scene "B"?

 

Thank you for any input.

 

:Mike

[bsobel]

From your description I suspect you actually want to combine them into one scene with all B buttons and all C buttons as controllers. Then go into each B button and adjust the brightness for each device and set the brightness for each C button to 0. Then go into each C button and adjust to the lower brightness and set the B buttons to 0.

 

When you are done you'll have one scene the activates to different brightness depending on what button was pressed and the opposite button will get turned off as you'd want.

[walkman9999]

That seems to work wonderfully. However, while testing I realized that I use the formerly separate scenes when adjusting lighting via mobilelinc.

 

I suppose I could just have the former "High Hang" and "Low Hang" scenes still exist and not associated with the keypadlinc buttons anymore so that they were accessible through mobilelinc. Would this be the most "graceful" way to accomplish this? Or is there a better solution?

 

(As an aside, I find this forum to be invaluable, and appreciate the great advice!!)

 

:Mike

 

EDIT: The only problem I see with the above solution is that when a scene is activated via mobilelinc, there is no keypad indication that the scene is "on". So someone local to house would not have an accurate status of the scenes. (Admittedly, this is a bit pedantic!)

 

EDIT #2: I think I figured it out! If I add "B" and "D" as responders to both "High Hang" and "Low Hang", they will reflect the status of the scene even if it is triggered via mobilelinc. And, those same buttons can still be controllers of my new scene that has various light levels.

 

Would still like confirmation as to whether this is the best way to accomplish my goal if anyone cares to comment. Thanks all!

[bsobel]

Hi, didn't know about the mobilelinc use case when I posted that. So in that case two scenes is still probably best. Make the B buttons controllers in one scene and the C button responders (and the opposite in the other scene). Adjust the level of the responders to 0 as before. This will give you two scenes in the mobile app and when used the status should reflect properly on the keypads.

 

Best,

Bill

[walkman9999]

Thanks Bill,

 

I like the paradigm of simplifying things rather than using the complex solution I was getting myself into. Seems like keeping it as simple as possible leaves more avenues open as the requirements change. Appreciate the input, I'm considering this problem solved!

 

:Mike

[bsobel]

My pleasure. This stuff is fun