How to use Vairable / Globals

[Kage 37]

I am very new with this, if someone can explane, than thanks.

How does it works Variables and Globals,

must you make a Variable in the Panels firts, than make a scene to that variable or.....

Basic what i wanted to do is

make a scene where lights go on if its evening and go out when its day

Have read some on the Forum but i don's get it (YET)

Thanks alot

[Lauri 6]

Actually this is very simple.

For you this it what you should do:

go to variables panel and make predefined variables. Make new variable named day/night and add value1: day and value2: night.

now you have to make scenes:

scene1: At 23:00(lets say) turn variable daynight to the night status.

scene2: At 9:00 turn variable daynight to the day status.

And when turning on lights then you have to mark something like this: If light is off and daynight is night then and so on.

Also you can add there more options to the variable. You can make daynight variable with 4 options also: morning, day, evening, night.

Give it a try - it is really simple!

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[mvrekum 2]

You have 2 kinds of variables, local and global.

Global variables are defined in the variables panel. In the top section you can define numbers. In the bottom section predefined variables, kind of lists like: "on" and "off" or "open", "half open" and "closed" or make a list of numbers 0 to 10. Whatever you need. You have to define them first before you use them. When writing a scene they show up in the variables menu (Lua: Menu left top. In blocks under "Variables")

In a scene you can write a value into a global variable. This variable you can then use in other scenes. I.e. one scene checks if it is day or night and writes the value "day" or "night" into the global variable.

Another scene can then be triggered like:

if global variable is "night" then turn on the lights.

And another scene:

if global variable is "day" then turn off the lights.

See them as little containers that transport values from one house to another.

Local variables can be used only in the scene where they are created. Like:

local variable A = 1

local variable B = A + 5

Other scenes can also have a local variable A, but this is not the same variable A as in the scene above.

So local variables are like containers that stay in the same house.

Good luck