I’m trying to work out how best to make use of Zigbee groups while still preserving Adaptive Lighting functionality in a space where different lights may be on or off.
The lights are primarily controlled using a Hue Tap Dial Switch:
- Pressing different buttons turns on different sets of lights e.g. one button just turns on lamps, another button turns on lamps plus the main light.
- An Adaptive Lighting configuration applies to most of the lights in the room. Primarily, the switch buttons just call
light.turn_onso I want the lights to be adapted. - Rotating the dial adjusts the brightness using a script which first checks which lights are on i.e. it only adjusts the brightness of lights which are already on.
All of the above works without using Zigbee groups but it would be preferable to have lights turning on at the same time, for example. What I’ve found is that if I set the AL configuration to target a group containing all the lights and then manually control some of the lights individually, those lights will not be marked as manually controlled so AL will take them over again automatically. Not sure if there is any way around this? Ideally I would be able to turn lights on and off using groups and have AL using groups, while still being able to control subsets of lights too.