Scenes Beta!

[devedsmith (Mr. Smith)]

@AdamV

What should happen to avoid confusion is routines and scenes should be amalgamated into 1 feature, where scenes are states within a routine. So that way you can have a scene that exists by itself, but you can add it to a routine, where you can then automate when it gets triggered. This would also allow slightly more complex flows whereupon a trigger occurring one scene is activated, then a pause, then another scene is activated. The other great thing about doing this is that it the labels “Routine” and “Scene” would actually make sense then

Now that Scenes are released and I see the UI I now understand why they did them separately. As you suggest, AdamV, I had originally posted a concept that added a Scenes feature directly to Routines (Suggestion For Scenes within Routines). However, this would only allow Scenes to be triggered from Routines. With them separate, a Scene can be triggered in other ways.

Like Tgauchat suggested, I too would like to be able to capture the current state as a Scene. And the lighting board idea is such a good one. I’d especially like to see how that feature could work in ActionTiles…