Scene Control Suite - Scene Activation

Add-on Marketplace Rule Templates
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I’ve been slowly working to improve the set-up instructions, so thank you for the feedback. There is already a more detailed description you can read here.

The short answer, however, is that although this rule can work without the other two pieces that is not recommended because you will have to manually configure all the metadata for each scene item. So the easiest way to get this working is to install all 3 pieces. Here are the basics.

Do these steps only once.

  1. Create 1 string item - If you name this item Rule_SceneModify then you will not need to do any additional configuration in the next two steps. If you use a custom name then that will have to be input into the widget and modification rules.
  2. Install the widget from the marketplace (link above) and add it to a page. Set the Rule Item parameter if you used a custom name in step 1.
  3. Install the modification rule from the marketplace (link above) and create 1 instance of the rule. Set the Scene Widget Item parameter if you used a custom name in step 1.
  4. Install this rule from the marketplace.

Repeat these 3 steps for each different scene you want.

  1. Create a switch item and give it the non-semantic tag Scene Controller.
  2. Create a new instance of this rule setting the Scene Controller Item to the new item created in the previous step. Set the other parameters as required to give the rule the required activation triggers (these can, of course, be changed at any later time).
  3. Go to the page with the widget and configure the new scene.