Saving previous house mode with MSR

[therealdb]

I've traditionally set a scene that it's turning on lights based on transitions from a given house mode (ie: from night or away to home) and I'm trying to port it to MSR.

I've tried the groups, with no luck.

I could write 4 rules in order to save it, but I'm wondering if there's a better way to handle this (ie, to push via MQTT the previous and the current value of a generic entity, for example). Something like a "previous value for X". Thanks!

[toggledbits]

There is a changes operator in conditions that will accept 0, 1 or 2 operands. The 0 operand form detects any change (from anything to anything), the 1 operand form detects a change from or to a value (depending on which of the two operands you populate and which you leave blank, e.g anything to Home or Away to anything), and the 2 operand detects a specific change from the value of the first operand to the value of the second (e.g. Away to Home). Is that sufficient for your purpose?

[therealdb]

Yep, that's what I'm using. More context.
I want to see the previous house mode, because I'm running different things based on the previous (not the current) house mode. So, I have 4 Rules like this:

And I'm effectively setting a global variable to track the previous value. In an ideal world, I could capture and use the previous value and assign it to a variable and delete the other three different rules.

[toggledbits]

This is the way to do it for now.

[therealdb]

Thanks! I’m happy to have the right approach. This means I’m into the tool and ready to helps others.