Group Actions will have limited usefulness, but some may find it useful. It simply lets you assign a number of actions to a Group then individually use the group Actions in Events within the Group.
Here are three Lights all added to group Actions.
Then an Event can use a single Action to Run the Group Actions
Then this Event will turn all three lights on when there is motion.
This really has limited usefulness as it is highly unlikely a large number of Events would share common actions. The same can be accomplished by calling another Event with all of the actions in it.
The additional advantage to moving it to a secondary Event is that you can make it conditional. Here is an example of turning only 1 light on at Sunset when the home is vacant and all three when it is occupied. Note that a single Event, Triggered at Sunset runs two Events each evaluating Occupancy. The first Event must have "Run Only If Other Event Conditions are TRUE" selected for each Action running another Event. Read here for more information. This affords much more flexibility than a select number of Group Actions.
Here are three Lights all added to group Actions.
Then an Event can use a single Action to Run the Group Actions
Then this Event will turn all three lights on when there is motion.
This really has limited usefulness as it is highly unlikely a large number of Events would share common actions. The same can be accomplished by calling another Event with all of the actions in it.
The additional advantage to moving it to a secondary Event is that you can make it conditional. Here is an example of turning only 1 light on at Sunset when the home is vacant and all three when it is occupied. Note that a single Event, Triggered at Sunset runs two Events each evaluating Occupancy. The first Event must have "Run Only If Other Event Conditions are TRUE" selected for each Action running another Event. Read here for more information. This affords much more flexibility than a select number of Group Actions.
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