Adding members to group in Jython (JSR223)

[5iver (Scott Rushworth)]

You can turn off all lights in a group by just sending OFF to the group, so I’m not sure why you’d need to manipulate the grouip members. In Basic UI, you can add each of your lights and use visibility to hide all of the ones that are OFF. That all seems old-school though. Have you seen this?

Area Triggers --> Area Actions

The main thing I am aiming to communicate in this tutorial is the concept of using the logic built into groups to lessen the complexity of rules. By setting up your Items and groups in the following way, you will be able to use one rule for much of the automation in your home. A second rule is needed if you’d like to have the lights adjust to Mode (Time of Day) and outside lux levels. The concept is that each area within a home has triggers and the combined state of those triggers can represent …

One thing I don’t mention is that the Habpanel panel is interactive, so we can turn on/off the lights by touching a dashboard/tablet/phone/computer. You can also use Basic UI.