Sorry if this has been asked before but my searching didn’t find me what what I am looking for. I currently have a scene that sets the lights in my main living area which includes, kitchen, dining room and living room. Unfortunately this scene, which is based off of outside brightness, will sometimes trigger while we are cooking dinner and we have a subset of the lights already on and at a brighter level. I am looking to see if there is a way to only have devices that are not already in a certain state get triggered by the scene. AKA I want to have a “scene” where only devices that are currently off get their state changed.
I figured this is not able to be done with a scene, and would need to be done via an automation, but I am not looking forward to looking at the state of each light to make this work. While I have been a HA user for years, I am have not been able to think of a way to make this “easy” and was hoping the community had some ideas to help me. All suggestion are welcome!