Scene with a trigger and scenes on a schedule

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Hi all, brand new here.

I have several scenes scheduled for turning off and on lights in a rental property to maintain the illusion of occupancy. I frequently have maintenance people in the property who turn on lights but fail to turn them off again.

My question is this…

If I create a scene with a trigger to turn off the light after 1 hour if the light is turned on, will that scene view my other scheduled “turn on the light at night” scene as an “ON” event, or will the scene with the trigger only react to an actual button press of the switch?

Thanks!

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Any time the light is switched on (manual button press, via a Z-Wave command, polling, or via a scene) will trigger your “off after one hour” scene.

You could use LUUP code to get around this, or possibly use the Combination switch and countdown timer to achieve that desired outcome.