Struggling to (re)set Manual Control / going in circles (my bad) - going crazy need advice pls

[macleodal]

Folks, I am new to this and way out of my depth but thought I was getting to a better level of understanding. This is (I am 100% sure) my fault not a bug or any problem with the Adaptive Lighting integration (which I think is amazing).

I am trying to do one thing that I think should be crazy simple but I am failing completely and have passed the point where I might solve it myself. Please can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?

• I am only using the UI / visual editor -- not ready for YAML yet
• In one room ("Hall") I have six lights that I am adapting with AL
• When I turn the group lights from OFF to ON, AL sees this as manual intervention and relinquishes control. The AL switch associated with these lights correctly shows the IDs of the lights in the manual control section
• I have an automation that says, after a trigger event (fired by a ZHA-integrated switch), turn the lights on, then remove all the lights in the AL group entity switch from the manual control section

But no matter how many different ways I try to configure this, the reassertion of manual control never seems to work. Manually I can do it easily by toggling the AL group switch off and on again (and perhaps this is just the path I should take as it's easy and it works) but I am trying to learn, so I am determined to figure out WHY this won't work.

Can anyone point me onto the path of righteousness?!

Thank you in advance

Alastair

[andybee]

I have a similar issue in a room with 2x lamps that are grouped, if I use a Shelly switch which has an integration to turn on the group - AL kicks in fine and manages the group. But, if I use Alexa to turn those lights on (Alexa is using it's own room mapping so it knows both those lights should come on with "Lights On") - AL sees this as a manual change and puts the lights in to manual control.

I tried to write an automation to listen for the group on, then disable manual, but I assume it's hitting some kind of race condition as it completes without error but the lamps remain in manual control.