How to get started in scripting?

[Bugman1400]

Can you provide an example of the external triggers that you are referring to and how you have attempted to use them?

External triggers would include Scheduled Events, Manual Events, switch paddle presses, or anything else that causes the HS-WD200+ to turn the lights on.

[Bugman1400]

So you're thinking of triggering the script something like once a minute, then polling the multilevel device and then setting the LED color?

Was thinking of polling once every 15 mins and then trigger the script.

[Uncle Michael]

Is there a reason you cannot use the trigger, "If the Node 6 Z-Wave Outside Lights had its value set and is not equal to off"?