working with home tables

[Jay Ess 6]

i have a variable where i store a list of lights which i want to control.

I am saving them by name e.g. livingroom, diningroom, kitchen

in the scene i am running i have these same names, i am then trying to turnon the lights in the variable by making them a group and using this command.

function TurnOnLights(GroupName,SetLightOnLevel)

    if SetLightOnLevel == nil then SetLightOnLevel = 99 end

    for k,i in ipairs(GroupName) do

        if fibaro.getType(i) == "com.fibaro.FGD212" then

            if fibaro.getValue(i, "value") ~= SetLightOnLevel then

                fibaro.call(i, "setValue",SetLightOnLevel)

                fibaro.sleep(1000)

            end

        elseif fibaro.getType(i) == "com.fibaro.philipsHueLight" then

            if SetLightOnLevel == 99 then SetLightOnLevel = 100 end

            if fibaro.getValue(i, "value") ~= SetLightOnLevel then

                fibaro.call(i, "turnOn")

                fibaro.call(i, "setValue",SetLightOnLevel)

                fibaro.sleep(1000)

            end

        else

            if fibaro.getValue(i, "state") == false then

                fibaro.call(i, "turnOn")

            end

        end

    end

end

 

for other lights in this scene i set groups as follows:

local groupbed={bed1,bed2}

TurnOnLights(groupbed)

 

my problem is how do i pass the names from the variable in to a group?

[Jay Ess 6]

maybe my question was abit long winded lol, in essence how do i pass in lua a string and make it in to a group?