Button to turn OFF/ON my subwoofer

[elmips 4]

Hi all LUA professional !

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i'm trying to make my first LUA code to a button of a virtual devices to turn OFF/ON my subwoofer (connected to a fibaro wallplug).

but it's not working and i don't understand why (sorry i'm a big newbie with LUA.)

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i tryed to update a variable "Night" to set the state ON or OFF.

here is my code :

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anyone can help a newbie like me ?

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[Shad 4]

Your condition is not good, how do you want activate it????

[elmips 4]

hi shad,

i just want to activate it when pressing the button from my virtual device where is this lua code.

the condition is just to switch to the opposite state (ON / OFF) when pressing to the button.

[Krikroff 199]

elmips, why you use getGlobal / setGlobal ? do you want only check when it's night or not ? I can try to help you, but détails all your needs

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[elmips 4]

elmips, why you use getGlobal / setGlobal ? do you want only check when it's night or not ? I can try to help you, but détails all your needs

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Thanks Krikroff, yes, i will explain the all idea.

1) i have a lua script that check if my XBMC's IP is pinging well and if yes set a global "XBMC" to "1".

2) I have a block scene that trigger the XBMC global every minute and if it is "1" it power on the receiver and the subwoofer. (2 fibaro wall plug)

the problem is i can't poweroff the subwoffer when XBMC is poweron because the XBMC global is set to "1" and every minute it poweron again the subwoofer.

to solve that, i create 2 new block scene :

the fist say : XBMC = 1 and Night = 0 then poweron receiver + subwoofer

the second say : XBMC = 1 and Night = 1 then poweron receiver

it work but it's a bit long to setup manually and to manage well if i want to change this setting while watching a movie.

My idea is to create a new button on my XBMC virtual device (i allready have to play/pause, ping or send an information message to XBMC).

This button should :

switch off the subwoffer if on

or

switch on the subwoofer if off

so i try to setup a lua script on this button to change the state of global "Night" and switch the subwoffer to the opposite state.

the idea is to check the actual state of "night".

if it's "0" then change the state to "1" and poweroff the subwoofer.

else set it to "0" and poweron the subwoffer

do you think it could be possible ?

[Krikroff 199]

elmips, to switch the wallplug to the opposite state in LUA you can do that

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If I understand you want to add the notion of "priority to manual control" ? If i switch off my subwoffer, my main scene does not turn on it ...

You can add a variable "subwofferManualPowerOff" set to true when you turn off it manually. Create a scene that reset this variable to false at 02:00 AM for exemple. Use this variable in your XBMC scene and check if variable is set tot true then do not change the state of your wallplug, if is set to false: lets go !

This can be optimized but I think this is the right approach.

[Shad 4]

Try that, but scene is going to be easier than virtual device to debug, and you could use virtual device to activate scene:

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EDit: Better to use the way of krikroff

[elmips 4]

@Shad, thanks it work fine with your "if condition" !

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@krikroff, yes, i will try your way. I have to think about it and to progress with my understanding of LUA to be honest. Perhaps, i will try with scenes before virtual device because it way help me to move forward more efficently.

thanks again for your precious help guys !

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