Scene vs Device in program

[K-bert]

So this isn't working as I would expect it to. Including the master bedroom my house has three bedrooms on the second floor. My son is using bedroom 2 and bedroom 3 is currently the TV room. I have a scene set up for bedroom 3 such that the dimmer and button B of the keypad in the master are linked. While watching TV I prefer to have the lights off and my wife prefers some light. So I have set up a program to turn the lights down (or on) to 20% when a button is pressed on the universal remote.

This program works fine if I tell it to turn the device on to 20%, but this does not update the status of the light on the keypad in the master bedroom. So I tried changing to program to turn the scene on to 20%.  This does not work. Every time I tried it simply turns the scene on to 100%.

Attached are screen grabs of the programs. Anybody know what I am doing wrong?

Thanks,

K-Bert

 

 

Edited January 15, 2021 by K-bert
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[lilyoyo1]

you need to create a separate scene and configure the devices to be what you want in it. Then control the scene itself not the individual device

Edited January 15, 2021 by lilyoyo1

[K-bert]

Thanks for the reply,

Just so I understand: Trying to set the scene to 20% is no good. Instead create another scene (eg Bedroom_3_Dim) with both devices which is set to an on level of 20%. Then use the program to turn that scene on when the IR command is received?

Thanks,

K-Bert

[MrBill]

you can do it a couple of ways, as lilyoyo points out multiply scenes, one for full brightness and one for 20% or whatever.

You can also use a technique that I use for Alexa that I wrote up here:

after creating programs like those in the linked post, then the program that you have above could just set the state variable to 20 to control the light.

[K-bert]

Great info, thank you both!

MrBill, I will likely follow your solution to add buttons to increase and decrease the lighting level from the remote when I have some free time. liliyoyo1 I followed your advice and it is already working.

Thanks again!

K-Bert

[MrBill]

1 minute ago, K-bert said:

MrBill, I will likely follow your solution to add buttons to increase and decrease the lighting level from the remote when I have some free time.

It does take awhile to set up, but it's really pretty nice when it's done, whether by Alexa or any other source you can just set the state variable to any value 0 (off), or 1-100 (brightness level) and the device responds.   If you're setting up multiples it's much faster for me to use Copy Folder then edit the names and line of the copy to match the next scene.