Program concept help needed.

[EricK]

Happy Thanksgiving.  I am smoking a pork butt and installing some gear, so I have some time on my hands.  The forum seems a bit quiet so here is what I need help with.  I really want some ideas, rather than the actual programs. I have been adding devices to my children's rooms.  Started with a switch for their main lights with a corresponding KPL button in the hallway downstairs that was set as a controller of the main lights for each of them.  This way I can walk by the KPL and then turn the lights off.  Now I want to transition into monitoring, I have several monitoring programs, like the one for my basement lights.

In my daugther's room I now have a 6 button KPL to control the main lights, a switchlinc for her ceiling fan which she wants to be on all night, an appliance linc for her lamp which is on during story time, and a switchlinc for her closet that I am about to install.  The closet light also needs to be on all night.

So how would you set up the hallway KPL button to monitor the devices in her room.  We really dont use the hallway KPL button to turn anything on in her room.  Basic would be to remove the KPL button as a controller of the main lights scene.  Create a program if status device is on or status device is on...  Then set scene KPL Hallway button on, else button off.

Of course that just seems boring.  I am thinking about two monitoring programs, one for the day, one for at night.  The day program would include all devices and turning the button off would turn all devices off.  A night program would only be on if the devices that are supposed to be off at night are on.  Or maybe the opposite, the KPL is on at night if the devices that are supposed to be on are on.  Last night the fan on at 8pm program did not turn the fan on (separate issue).  After we tucked her in and came down stairs she was yelling that we forgot the fan.  If I had come down the stairs and seen that the KPL button was not on, I would have known.  Instead, I pulled out my phone, turned the fan on.

What would you guys do.

Eric

[stusviews]

A simple solution is to create a scene that includes each device linked to one KPL button. Button lit, device is on, unlit is off. Link the button as a responder if all you want is an indicator or as a controller to be both an indicator and a controller.