Timeout or filter time in scene on HCL

[erik.simonson 4]

All,

Yet again this question might be due to my lack of experience.

I have a roller controller that I is controlled by various parameters and I would like to have a delay parameter. I know I can delay the opening/closing by using the red box in the scene configuration, however it will ultimately always happen. What I am looking for is a "red box" added to assigning a variable a new value, is this possible? is possible to achieve the same function some otherhow? (What I am looking for is a filter time so that the roller does not open/close too frequently.)

If it is not possible, is planned? if not, could it be planned? Or is this simply a limitation of the HCL I need to accept?

Thanks,

Erik

[j.nowacki 5]

erik.simonson, I'm afraid it is not possible in direct way in HCL, more advanced scenes and operation on variables are possible on HC2 with LUA.

[stevenvd 51]

what you can do is make a set of scenes.

In a couple set a variable with a preset value.

have a couple of other scenes which all have a different delay. these scenes are triggered by your variables and compare it with the preset variable. then only one of these will be executed.

[erik.simonson 4]

Thanks for the idea, I did even easier.

For anyone that has the same question here it goes:

I created a timer based scene that executes every two hour, it sets a timeout-variable to '1'.

When the roller is closed I set the very same variable to '0' and then use that variable to prevent it from being opened until that variable will become '1' again.

It is a very crude timer but I believe the average time should be 1 hour which is good enough for me.