Advice about automations

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Maybe this question has been asked before, but I can’t find anything about it, or I’m searching wrong.

Does anyone have a solution for my situation?
I have set my lamps (scene) to turn on when the sun goes down.

It sometimes happens that I (manually) turn on my lamps at, for example, 90% light.
When the sun goes down, the scene is activated and suddenly I only have 60% light. (according to the scene).

I’m sure I’m not the only one running into this. I should actually make an exception that the automation should not be executed when the lights are already on. But that doesn’t work either, because I only have my living room lighting on, and want the rest to be on when the sun goes down.

Or, I make an automation for every light. But I think it can be smarter,…
How did you solve this at home?

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I’ve always found scenes to be a bit inflexible. You might have a look at Entity Controller from HACS. It allows you control lights (or anything else) individually - much more compact and manageable than a collection of automations.

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Put the condition in the action part instead.
So if living room light is off then turn it on.
Then turn on the other lights.