I know what's happening in the program(s), but having trouble describing in a short question ...

I have 2 different KPL's which monitor devices on and can shut them off using the KPL button. At each KPL, the button will light up when any devices in the list turns on. If have one KPL for all basement devices and a main KPL for every device connected to EISY.

Here's a sample of the main KPL .... if a device is turned on , the KPL light is also turned on, if all devices are off, the KPL will turn off

If Kitchen Sink Status is ON

or Living Room Light is ON

or ..... A long list of every device to monitored ....

Then Set 'KPL Front Dr D Mon' On

Else Wait 5 seconds

Set 'KPL Front Dr D Mon' Off

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If any devices are ON anywhere in the house, I can turn it off at the main KPL by pressing the button

If KPL Front Dr D Monitor Status is Off

Then Set 'Kitchen Sink' Off

Wait 1 second

Set Living Room Light Off

etc ...

Problem ...

Based on my limited understanding of writing programs, it appears in the first program, Else " Set 'KPL Front Dr D Mon' Off " is triggering the 2nd program "If KPL Front Dr D Monitor Status is Off" and running a global off to all devices

How do I stop this .... ??? (discovered this when Christmas Lights were manually turned on (LampLinc) during the day and someone turned off the basement KPL, global turns off the LampLinc)

Don't use status of the kpl button in your second program. Use "control", so it will say if KPL... is switched off.

In that case, the only action that runs the program is someone physically pushing the button on the kpl to shut it off. Furthermore, if the only thing you use that kpl for is to shut things off, I would change the KPL toggle mode to non-toggle off. In this case, pressing the button will always send an "off" command. The KPL button backlight can still be turned on by a program or by responding to a scene, but pressing it will only ever send an off command.

Finally, you would probably be better off creating a scene rather than listing out all the devices one by one in a program. You can put the KPL button in the scene as a controller and all the other devices as responders. Then you can do away with the second program altogether.

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by apostolakisl