Schedule-based rule not working

[hvb83 1]

I have the following code, through which I'm trying to make a LED-strip in the kitchen switch on and off based on a schedule.

In this case it should switch on every Saturday and Sunday at 7h30 and go through a series of colors based on timers. Since I want to be able to override it manually, this seemed the easiest solution to me.

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Initially this worked without having the second time-check in (8h), but since I wanted to prevent the rule from starting also when I restart HC2 during the middle of the day, I build in an extra check to make sure that the timer will only start if it's between 7h30 and 8h.

And after that, it's not working anymore. It always states the if-statement is not true, even if it should be true. What am I doing wrong here?

[boerremk 83]

It should be 07:30 and 08:00. (with the 0 in front) I guess.

[hvb83 1]

Thanks you for you suggestion. I tried it just now, but it didn't change the result. For tidiness I kept it the way you stated.

[Guest GG]

wday 1 equals sunday

wday 2 equals monday

...

wday 6 equals friday

wday 7 equals saturday

As fas as I understand, if you want the scene to run all the time, you need a while-loop around everything with a sleep(60000) in the end. Otherwise the scene will run only once, in your case it will work only if you start it friday och sunday between 07:30 and 08:00

Try this:

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[boerremk 83]

This should do the trick:

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I miss the loop, so if you want to run it more then once you have to add something like "while true do".

[robmac 173]

I do not have any RGB yet but Jompa68 tested for me for the LUA Scheduler. The call was setRGBColor but setColor may also work.

Have a look in the code here

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[Guest GG]

When writing lua-scenes, I sometimes make a temporary scene, to test my code.

If you write this (one of your lines of code from above) in a scene and click run, you can see what the output becomes.

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In this case the output will be 730.

For a programmer, this line of code is not optimal.

In string.format "%02d" means that you will format an integer number and always get at least two digits in the output string. If the source is only one digit (i.e. 0 - 9) a zero will be added infront

of the digit. This means 6 will become "06" and 12 will become "12".

But in your case you input a string "07" to the format.string function which in turn tries to format an integer number (%d) into a string again. And last you convert the string to number again (tonumber). This makes the result become 730.

It would be better, more clear what the code does to write

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in your case.

Personally I would write it:

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And finally, your code will only be run once as you have no while loop. It will only work if you start it between 07:30 and 08:00 on saturdays or sundays.

[ Added: 2013-10-27, 13:38 ]

robmac

As I see it, there is no setRGBColor action, see attached image.

I'm using version 3.570.

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[hvb83 1]

Wow, very much appreciated guys, thanks! It's working now. Sorry to be such a noob at this, but I recently switched from Zipabox to Fibaro. Haven't regretted the switch at all, but the LUA-bit is still a bit of a challenge for me. Hoping to get some basic functions working with the help of this forum and then be able to help myself after that (and hopefully some new noobs to come after that

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[robmac 173]

As I see it, there is no setRGBColor action, see attached image.

I'm using version 3.570.

Thanks for that will add setColor to the scheduler

Save all those loops if you have a lot of timers needed.

Do you know how the startProgram works?

I have added setColor (was already there but translated)

setW, setR, setB, setG

Please can someone test as I have no RGB modules yet

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[Guest GG]

Do you know how the startProgram works?

Yes. There are a couple of predefined programs in the unit. To that you can add your own programs where you define a color and a duration and an optional transition time to the next color etc.

This way you can build programs with up to 70 steps to produce your specific "color movie" to be played by the unit.

As I understand it, these programs are downloaded into the unit and run from there. This way you can have very small durations for each step in the program (20ms) if you want.

The first 5 programs are predefined, the last two I have made.

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will start program "Storm".

Ulf

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[robmac 173]

Code:

fibaro:call(1801, "startProgram", "2");

Many thanks

Have added startProgram to this version.

Must get some RGB modules.

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