Toggling Light on/off several times

Community Playground Scenes & Automations
#1

I have a multicolor pool light that rolls through the colors slowly when the light is turned on. To choose a specific color, you have to turn the light on/off within a couple of seconds to choose the color you want to stay stationary. How do I set a scene so when the light is turned ON, it is turned OFF then ON, OFF, ON, OFF, ON. Basically I want it to toggle ON and OFF several times eventually staying on the color I like? I tried setting a scene to turn it on and off but the scene will just run endlessly turning the light on and off till I disable the scene. I wish there was a way to insert a “stop” running the scene.

#2

Use AltuUI. You can access a ‘Toggle’ action there. I spent ages trying just to get a normal light switch function.

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#3

I installed AltuUI, not sure where to go from here? I tried creating a scene in it, so when the light turns on, the action is Toggle but it doesn’t seem to be working/doing anything when I turn the light on.

#4

The scenes I have are simply have one action ‘Toggle the switch’

Then when I run it, if the light is off, it goes on. If the light is on, it goes off…

C

#5

I got it working, it toggles the pool light but I’m back to square one as it keeps toggling the light switch and doesn’t stop unless I disable the scene. Is there a way to stop a scene from processing after X seconds?

#6

Have you created a scene doing it all?

Not quite what I intended was to manually turn toggle it as a normal light switch to set the colour.

I may have mis understood your requirement here (and confused it with another question. Or I may be imagining things)

Can you restate the problem for me / us?

Cheers

C

#7

When the light is turned ON, I would like to have scene to automatically turn it OFF after 2 seconds, then ON after 2 seconds, then OFF after 2 seconds, then ON again. Then I would like the scene to stop running/triggering. The issue is it gets stuck in a loop because the initial trigger is when the Light is turned ON.

#8

I figured it out while responding to you. I installed a virtual switch plugin. I set a scene to turn on the virtual switch with the light is turned on. I then set the scene that turns the lights on/off multiple times to use the virtual switch as the trigger instead of the light ON trigger. I also set the virtual switch scene to turn back off after 30 seconds.

#9

So the initial trigger is just the light turning on?

Reactor can do this then, as you’re starting from a known state.

I can’t recall quite how you’d do it, but the conditions would be ‘device state turns on’ then I think latch until external reset.

Then your activities would be turn off, turn on, turn off, turn on then reset the reactor.

Pretty sure that’ll do it, but have a play

C

#10

That’ll work as well :slight_smile: . Nice one

C