How to cycle though scenes, with a smart switch

Third party integrations Node-RED
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Hi there.

I have been trying to rack my brains trying to work out how to do the following in my kitchen.

I have five active light scenes set up in my kitchen:

Scene 1, Scene 2, etc.

I also have a 4-button Styrbar - I have two buttons unused (the down button, right).

Here is what I am trying to do - pressing the right button will turn on the last scene that was selected and pressing right will cycle forwards through the scenes continuously.

E.g. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2 etc.

Pressing down will then turn of all the lights (scene 6),

Any advice with this would be much appreciated.

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You need a way to keep tabs on what scene is active.
This can either be done in a helper in HA or by context data in NR.
A helper in HA is the easier one, because you can just use service calls to set the helper.

Context data in NR is maybe a bit trickier at first, but it opens up for another dimension of possibilities in NR once you can store data from run to run.
https://nodered.org/docs/user-guide/context

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Thanks Wally.

I have a read of the link a good couple of times and I really am struggling to get my heard round this.

Sorry to be a pain but could you perhaps point me in the direction of a diagram, similar to what I am trying to do?

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I figured out with help from this video

I made the top of an insteon switch switch 3 scenes. to use insteon switchlinc I included commands in the scenes to set my dimmer to 99% so I can turn it “on” again, triggering the next scene. I included a command to reset the drop down helper to the 1st preset on my off scene

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