Activate one or multiple scenes with a button

hello, following a recent burglary at my neighbors’ house I equipped myself with door and window contact sensors. I created scenes for each contact sensor; my issue is how to activate these scenes from a single command — a button or a command on the Dashboard,

I admit I’m a bit lost; there isn’t a trigger to enable or disable a scene which would be very useful

hi

Hello,

I think you can create a global scene that calls all your other scenes, then use the Scene widget in the Dashboard to trigger the global scene

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It seems to me that @pascal_sapin wants to be able to Activate / Deactivate and not Trigger / Stop the scenes.

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Just use a virtual MQTT button that you can place on your dashboard. Then add a condition after the trigger of your scenes to check the state of your button. If it’s 1 then you continue the scene!

I don’t use it, but doesn’t the alarm mode do that?

Hi,

personally I set up several scenes that trigger scenarios depending on whether it’s activated by badge or the alarm button on the Gladys page (handy for remote arming/disarming). It lets me start an exit delay before checking for open doors or windows. I also receive camera views for every arm/disarm, plus a voice on Google Home announcing a countdown.

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Several months of operation and it feels pretty much like a commercial alarm, usable by other members of my family who simply use the badge or code keypad.

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Hi,

That looks great :slight_smile:
Could you make a short tutorial for your scenes please so we can get inspiration from what you’ve done? :blush:

On my side I’m basing myself on renting our phones like Pierre-Gilles did on the training site

Thanks

Hi @pascal_sapin,

Alarm mode is exactly what you need.

You’ll have a widget on the dashboard that will allow you to enable/disable the alarm:

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There’s a whole tutorial in the course, chapter « Security » → « Alarm mode configuration »:

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