Pausing and resuming a scene using LUUP

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I recently went on vacation, and to keep my house from running various automation functions, I paused several scenes. When I got back, I resumed them.

Good so far, but that takes a while to do… manually :-). I was wondering if there was a way to pause a scene, and resume it using LUUP?

I would use LUUP in a VACATION scene to pause various scenes, and then (of course) a VACATION_RETURN scene that resumes them.

– another use for this –

I would also disable scenes that sense motion inside my home (when I’m Away). I get my share of false triggers when my Neato is cleaning etc. Lights are turned on that waste electricity. By turning off this automation when I’m away, things run a bit better.

It all depends on some LUUP magic. Vera recently added the ability to PAUSE and RESUME scenes in UI7. I was hoping there was some LUUP magic that would perform that function as well.

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Answering my own question for the most part…

You can do this without using LUUP magic by simply setting the appropriate scenes to run ONLY for specific modes.

If the mode is set to Away or Vacation, the scene does not execute. Simple.

Now if I can only figure out why my Vera goes into Night mode mysteriously… LOL.