Rules operating on groups, and being able to exclude a device

Setup, Configuration and Use Scripts & Rules
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I have a numer of rules that set some lights to run from sunrise to bedtime, and another main one that runs upon alarm arm or disarm.

In these rules I operate on two groups: g_downstair_lamps and g_outside_lights_alarm

I’ve just added a light to the g_downstairs_light, that I primarily am happy for it to follow those two rules.

But the final turn off at night, or arm, I’d light to exclude it to that one operation.

Do I just need to turn of back on directly after telling to group to turn off? or is there some other way that would make more sense?

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There is no way to exclude an Item from receiving a command sent to it’s group. So you can either do as you describe or instead of commanding the whole Group with one command trigger a Rule and filter and loop through the Items and send a command to each one individually, excluding the one that you don’t want to receive the command.

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Bear in mind that Items can be members of several groups, let’s say both g_downstairs_light_day and g_downstairs_light_night.

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ooooooh…ok

So I can turn on g_downstairs_light_day, but which has all of them in…and then turn off g_downstairs_light_night which only has the ones I want turned off.

I knew there would be a bright spark here that could give me a way to do it, or give me some aspect I didn’t realise/remember. The multiple group thing I hadn’t thought of.