Manual Override an Auto Scene

[billykwan88 0]

Hello!

I have an auto scene set up already.

It controls my blind or curtain by light intensity. In other words, if sensor gets >10000 lux, then blind closes, and if sensor gets <10000, then blind opens.

Problem is that sometimes my family wants to control it manually by the wall switch or through the fibaro control panels. Right now, if they want to open the blind, it immediate closes by the auto scene. The auto scene override the manual control.

How can I set it up so that Manual control can override auto scenes? maybe just for certain period of time, say 30 minutes?

Thanks so much!

[MalvinYNJ 4]

Take out autostart and use triggers instead?

[Adam.Bewsher 2]

Hi billykwan88,

You could have a global variable (see

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) which is set when anyone manually controls the blind. The auto scene you have should check the global variable (see

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) and if it is set then skip the code to change the position of the blind. As soon as the manual override is turned off (and the global variable is reset) then the auto scene will take over and put the blind where it should be.

Happy Automating

Adam Bewsher

[billykwan88 0]

Oh wow, thanks a lot, i will try it!! :->

[ Added: 2014-10-11, 07:39 ]

Hi Adam,

I have tried it and I need some help here.

I understand the logic you are suggesting, but I do not know how to reset a variable after a time period, using graphic block scenes.

Thanks so much!

[geeklabs 1]

Oh wow, thanks a lot, i will try it!! :->

[ Added: 2014-10-11, 07:39 ]

Hi Adam,

I have tried it and I need some help here.

I understand the logic you are suggesting, but I do not know how to reset a variable after a time period, using graphic block scenes.

Thanks so much!

Hey "billykwan88" you should create another scene that aborts the scene using LUA and then sets a delay of 1 hour and then restarts the scene. Try this:

fibaro:killScenes(12);

fibaro:sleep(3600000);

fibaro:startScene(12);

[Adam.Bewsher 2]

Hi billykwan88,

You could try something like the following.

Create a scene in Lua:

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Change 94 to the ID of your blind.

By default, the Fibaro Roller Shutter 2 will change the value of its sceneActivation property whenever the button is pressed. This scene is triggered when this happens - this does NOT get triggered if the value property of the blind changes (ie, it changes position). So this scene will only run when the actual switch is pressed.

It simply sets the global variable "autoBlinds" to the current time.

Now, in your auto scene, you should check the value of the global variable and test it against the current time - if it is more than 30 minutes since the switch has been used, then you can run the automatic code.

If your auto scene is in graphics blocks, you will need to convert it to Lua before you can add the following line at the top of the code (under the trigger section):

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And the following line at the very bottom:

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That should work for you.

Happy automating,

Adam Bewsher

[Thomas Cardif 0]

How do i get into HCL

Thx

[Guest David R]

There is no LUA in HCL so unfortunately you cant access LUA

[Dalle1985 16]

Create a global variable called i.e. "manualoverride" then, when you control the blinds by the remote, the remote also triggers a block scene which changes manualoverride to 1, sleeps for i.e. 30 min and then change the global back to 0.

Then the auto scene is set up to check the global; if it is 0, then the changing lux value will move the blinds, if it is 1 it just does nothing. Every time the lux changes, the scene triggers, so as soon as the global switches to 0 then they return to the automatic mode.

This should be possible to do by means of blocks alone with no Lua.