Grouping Lights/Dimmers/Rollershutters

Setup, Configuration and Use Beginners
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Hi all,

what is the best concept to switch on a set of lights (or dimmers)?
In my living room I have a couple of dimmers and I’d like to create a profile “watch TV”. This means in my case: Dimmer1=40%, Dimmer2=60%, Dimmer3=100%, Dimmer4=0%. How do I realize that with OpenHAB?

As far as I understood, groups (or better: the members) can only get one common value. That would be suitable if I want to switch all dimmers e.g. to 50%. But in my case, this is no option.

I could imagine to create a rule which is triggered by a switch item, that sends these 4 commands. Is this the officially preferred way?

Thanks,
Roman

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smaller Groups
then, add these to the bigger Group(s)
or a rule of course

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Hi Angelos,

can you give an example how smaller groups combining to bigger groups could help in my case?

Thanks,
Roman

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It seems that it won’t work in your case… You will have to go with a rule here.

There are some examples in this forum for rules used for scene management.

One example is: Rules for Lighting Scenes - Lights Not Always Reacting
Try to build a rule and post it here if you need further help.