Strange Scene Behaviour

[PB11]

Not sure I will be able to explain this very well.

I have many scenes which work perfectly, but I have a few scenes that don't and I can't understand why.

What I'm experiencing in my "Dim Kitchen" Scene, is that the local switch/dimmer/inline parameters are over riding the scene settings even when activated by a controller.

For example I have my "Island light" switch configured to be off when the "Dim Kitchen" scene is activated via button C on an 8 button switch. The action results in the Island lights coming on the local setting values. The physical lights are routed through the inlinelinc which is also part of the "Dim Kitchen" scene and is configured to be off when "Dim Kitchen" is activated.

My understanding of scenes is that the scene parameters override the local switch/dimmer/inline parameters when activated by a scene controller.

 

The only way I seem to have the desired effect is to click on the switch/dimmer/inline device within the scene and change the parameters on this level, which I believe are no longer the scene parameters but actually the local settings.

The makeup of this scenes I'm having trouble with includes an inlinelinc dimmer which I am wondering could be the culprit. 

Sorry if this is hard to follow.

[lilyoyo1]

1 minute ago, PeterBarker11 said:

Not sure I will be able to explain this very well.

I have many scenes which work perfectly, but I have a few scenes that don't and I can't understand why.

My understanding of scenes is that the scene parameters override the local switch/dimmer/inline parameters when activated by a scene controller.

What I'm experiencing in my "Dim Kitchen" Scene, is that the local switch/dimmer/inline parameters are over riding the scene settings even when activated by a controller.

The only way I seem to have the desired effect is to click on the switch/dimmer/inline device within the scene and change the parameters on this level, which I believe are no longer the scene parameters but actually the local settings.

The makeup of this scenes I'm having trouble with includes an inlinelinc dimmer which I am wondering could be the culprit. 

Sorry if this is hard to follow.

Scenes do not override anything. When you turn a scene on, you are simply telling another device to turn on, off, or to a specific level. If you manually control a device that is part of a scene, it will do what you tell it. 

What exactly are you trying to accomplish

[PB11]

Sorry. Just made edits to my post.

 

What I'm experiencing in my "Dim Kitchen" Scene, is that the local switch/dimmer/inline parameters are over riding the scene settings even when activated by a controller.

For example I have my "Island light" switch configured to be off when the "Dim Kitchen" scene is activated via button C on an 8 button switch. The action results in the Island lights coming on the local setting values. The physical lights are routed through the inlinelinc which is also part of the "Dim Kitchen" scene and is configured to be off when "Dim Kitchen" is activated.

[lilyoyo1]

4 minutes ago, PeterBarker11 said:

Sorry. Just made edits to my post.

 

What I'm experiencing in my "Dim Kitchen" Scene, is that the local switch/dimmer/inline parameters are over riding the scene settings even when activated by a controller.

For example I have my "Island light" switch configured to be off when the "Dim Kitchen" scene is activated via button C on an 8 button switch. The action results in the Island lights coming on the local setting values. The physical lights are routed through the inlinelinc which is also part of the "Dim Kitchen" scene and is configured to be off when "Dim Kitchen" is activated.

Is the inlinelinc part off the scene and did you configure both the scene and the controller for them to be off

[PB11]

Yes, the inlinlinc is part of the scene. I have configured it to be off in the scene, not sure how to do so for controller

[PB11]

I should have said i didn't realize i had to do so under the controller

 

[PB11]

Interesting

 

[PB11]

I generally don't use the physical device, but activate me scenes via Alexa. To still have functionality when our country internet is spazzing out I thought I would put scenes on the 8 button and so am only now seeing the strange behavior. Nice catch Lilyoyo. So simple once you know.

[lilyoyo1]

Add your responders to your scene first and configure them. Once done, add your controllers. The Isy will automatically set the parameters in the controllers.

Unless you want the controller to be different than the scene, this will save you time and effort

[PB11]

Awesome. Thank you.