Dashboard Design help

[wooden narwhal]

My entire house is now officially kitted with Philips Hue and Inovelli switches.
I am putting FP2 sensors throughout the whole house as well but wanted to start working on the dashboard.

The current design i have is that every area has a script to control the lighting. I do this cause i turn the lights white during the day and warm at night. so whenever you press a switch or trigger motion it runs the script to determin the right scene to activate....

My question is how do I do this in a dashboard. I can have a button that activates the script that does the lighting... however how do i shut it off then?

Like i basically want a toggle button in the dashboard that if i press it it calls my script... then if i press it again it activates the scene to turn those lights off.

This is how my switches work, you press the up button. it calls the script. you press the down button it activates the off scene. Now yes i could take the time that every time that script is called that I somhow save the state to say that the light is on... and then if the script gets called again and the state is that those lights are on then it would acutally turn them off.... But that seems like a shit load of helper toggles that seems like a bad idea if i ever turned a light on without the script....

Please Advise!

[devout pawn]

For the dashboard part of your question, the only card that I know of that can handle a templated tap-action is the custom:button-card. You wouldn't even need a helper entity. An IF statement could be written based on the state of the lights. If off, call script; if on, call scene.
But, I'm confused on why you have a scene for the lights to be off. Why not just turn them off? Do you have day and night scenes that handle the color temperatures, too? Why not just turn on lights to the appropriate color temperature?
Lastly, why can't your script handle everything internally. If lights are off, what time of the day is it, turn lights on to appropriate temp. If lights are on, turn them off. You don't need scenes or helpers for states of the lights.