Lighting Controller in open plan room

[Toby Mills]

Say I have two smart actuators on a lighting controller, lets call them A and B, they are in the kitchen and dining room.

Say I have two touch tree's, one in the kitchen and one in the dining room.

A&B are both running off the same lighting controller.

Say I touch tree one which activates a scene to turn on Light A in the kitchen.

In the dining room, I want to touch tree two and mix in Light B to the scene.

This works fine, light B comes on and is mixed with the scene.

Now say, I want to turn off light B by by double tapping in the dining room, but I want Light A to stay on in the kitchen?

What is the best way to do this, it seems mixing only works one way in that you can't "demix" a dimmer channel from a scene.

Whats the best practice for implementing lighting circuits that are in open plan rooms where you want different areas to come on and particularly off but not affect other parts of the room.

[Duncan]

it might turn out to be easier to use 2 lighting controllers and use some inputs to control both controllers and some inputs to control separate ones

[Toby Mills]

yes, might be the way to go, I've done this and it is working.

Toby