Return to earlier state

[tnemrap (Michael Parment)]

I have a switch called SceneCleaning and when that is turned to on i switch on all lamps in group Cleaning.

What i want to do is when Scene Cleaning is set to OFF i want to return the state of all lamps in group Cleaning to what it was when I entered tthe Cleaning mode.

How do i do this?

/Mike

[rossko57]

Sounds like a job for a HashMap, used in rules to record the state of group members when Cleaning triggered ON, and re-instate them when OFF

[tnemrap (Michael Parment)]

I have not worked with Hash Maps can someone point me in the right direction.

/mike

[rossko57]

Or, you could use 'associated items;

Design Pattern: Associated Items

Please see Design Pattern: What is a Design Pattern and How Do I Use Them for how to read and use DPs. Problem Statement Often one will have a number of separate Items which are all related to each other in some way. For example, one might have a Contact on a door and a DateTime to represent when the last time the door was opened. This is easy enough to keep track of if there are only one or two such Items, but if one has a lot of similar Items or is using a lot of generically coded rules where…

[tnemrap (Michael Parment)]

I will try to save the time in an item when i press the clean button and then when i press cleaning off restore the items to the historical value before i pressed the button.

/Mike