Turn lights off sometimes

[matt]

Hi, I'd like to keep some room pendants on between sunset and bedtime, even if the scene is turned off.

 

So, if you wake up in the night and turn the kitchen on and then off, then the pendants follow everything else in the room.

 

But if it's before bedtime, and you turn off the kitchen scene, then everything goes off except the pendants, and those might go to 50%.

 

I can't figure out where to start on this. Just a description of what is needed is fine. I am kind of thinking I'd keep the kitchen scene, but if the kitchen scene is turned off between certain hours, I'd use a program to override that and turn the pendants back on. What think?

[oberkc]

I can't tell if you are describing how it is, or how you want it to be.

 

I would help if you describe the devices in your current "scene". Is the "kichen" part of that scene? What insteon device directly controls the pendents? What other insteon devices are in that scene and what loads do they directly control. Within that scene, which devices are defined as "controllers"?

 

One option is to create a second scene...the one with just the pendants. This scene could have all the same devices as your kitchen scene, but a different controller. Or you could define different on levels for your kitchen scene, depending on which controller initiates it.

 

For example, if your kitchen scene has two devices (say switch 1 and switch 2) defined as controllers, switch 1 can initiate full bright for all devices in the scene, switch 2 can be set to initiate 50% for pendants and off (or very low, depending on device version) for the rest.

[matt]

OK, thanks, this gives me some ideas to pursue