Lighting schedule

[haroldunger]

I have several different programs that turn on lights at various hours and at different levels.  If I happen to have one of these lights turned on before the program executes, then it will change the light level to that indicated by the program.

I've tried writing several programs to disable the program if the light is already on, but I have been unsuccessful.  I would appreciate help in creating a program script that would avoid this issue.

Thanks.

[paulbates]

Can you post one of the programs? Ideally, you'd add an if clause to see if the light is on
.

Here's a sample idea

If

   Time is xx:xx

AND

   Status my light is 0%

Then

  Turn on the light

Unfortunately it would have to be one light at a time using this method

Edited 17 hours ago by paulbates

[haroldunger]

If I turn off the light during this period, the program will turn it on again.  I could try fade up, but there doesn't seem to be a max level and time frame for this option - I don't want 100%.  Thanks.

 

Sample Lighting program.docx

[dbwarner5]

I do something similar for my back deck lights. They are "checked" into correct settings, but if I want them to STAY off, they would come back on as you said. 

So I set up a trigger program that says IF light is on and is turned off, Then Decklightsstayoff =1.

Then in my original program, I add that variable to the IF statement so that it wont run if the variable is 1. 

Some more needed than above to fine tune things and reset the trigger etc, but hopefully this gives you the path to go on. 

If you need more, let me know and I can show some programs. 

Cheers.

[haroldunger]

Ty!  I’ll give it a go and will report back.

BTW, ur roadmap is very impressive.