Scene not working as expected

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I have several automations that change various lights colors. E.g, red for severe weather, blue for detected water leak, and purple for the Catlink C1. I'm trying to create a scene that reverts the lights back to their original non-color settings named "Normalize Lights Scene" So just using the office lamp as an example, it was turned blue by an automation. So in "Live Edit" I changed the light back to it's normal color (3000k), and save the scene. But when I "Switch to review mode", the light changes back to blue.

What do I have to do to keep the light at the 3000k setting?

-Thanks

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2

Once you have switched out of Live Edit, click "Apply" in the 3-dot menu to set all lights to the Scene-defined values.

3

Thank you, that was driving me nuts!

4

Okay, it's still driving me nuts. I set all of my lights to a "normal" state in my "Normalize Lights Scene". Then saving and pressing "Apply" as you suggested. Then I change Living Room Lamp Three to a teal color. Then I access the Normalize Lights Scene and click Apply, and the light remains teal. It doesn't seem to remember the states that I set the lights to.

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5

Where are you doing this? Not in the Scene Editor, right?

6

I actually have another scene named "Teal Dream" (My wife's favorite color) that changes all the lamps to teal. Then I thought I would run the Normalize Lights Scene to put the lights back to their original state.

-Thanks

7

So how are you actually executing the actions? A script, automation, dashboard?

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I accessed the scene directly and clicked the "Apply" menu item. I also have a script that calls "Activate scene" (Exposed to voice commands) which I tried to no avail. And also a dashboard item that runs the script to activate the scene:

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I thought once you created a scene and saved it then it would set all devices to the settings defined in the scene. It's like it's not saving the state of the lights.

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After playing with this some more I realized that if I turned a light off and saved the scene, HA only saved the state as off, not the color and other information. In my scene I wanted some lights to be off. In order to save color info, I kept all the lights on when editing the scene. Then in my script I activate the scene, then turn off the lights I want off. If there's a better way please let me know.

-Thanks

sequence:
  - action: scene.turn_on
    metadata: {}
    target:
      entity_id: scene.normalize_lights
    data: {}
    enabled: true
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 3
      milliseconds: 0
  - action: light.turn_off
    metadata: {}
    target:
      entity_id:
        - light.office_lamp_two
        - light.smart_multicolor_bulb
        - light.garage_lights
        - light.cync_full_color_undercabinet_18_2
        - light.cync_full_color_undercabinet_18
        - light.smart_rgbtw_bulb_4
        - light.patio_light_2
    data: {}
alias: Normalize Lights Script
description: ""
mode: parallel
max: 10