All off switch at the front door.

[Guest David R]

Hello I am completely new to Fibaro and LUA and was wondering how to do an all off switch at the front door. At the minute I have it as a relay s2 activating a scene if its either switched on or off with a momentary switch. I made the scene using blocks as I am still just started out learning LUA but here it is in LUA.

%% properties

76 value

%% globals

--]]

local startSource = fibaro:getSourceTrigger();

if (

( tonumber(fibaro:getValue(76, "value")) > 0 ) --if turned on--

or

( tonumber(fibaro:getValue(76, "value")) == 0 ) --or if turned off--

or

startSource["type"] == "other"

)

then

setTimeout(function()

fibaro:call(62, "turnOff");

end, 2000)

setTimeout(function()

fibaro:call(60, "turnOff");

end, 4000)

setTimeout(function()

fibaro:call(49, "turnOff");

fibaro:call(70, "turnOff");

end, 6000)

setTimeout(function()

fibaro:call(58, "turnOff");

end, 8000)

setTimeout(function()

fibaro:call(56, "turnOff");

fibaro:call(64, "turnOff");

fibaro:call(66, "turnOff");

end, 10000)

setTimeout(function()

fibaro:call(51, "turnOff");

end, 12000)

setTimeout(function()

fibaro:call(14, "turnOff");

end, 14000)

setTimeout(function()

fibaro:call(9, "turnOff");

fibaro:call(11, "turnOff");

fibaro:call(16, "turnOff");

end, 16000)

setTimeout(function()

fibaro:call(6, "turnOff");

fibaro:call(19, "turnOff");

fibaro:call(36, "turnOff");

fibaro:call(40, "turnOff");

end, 18000)

setTimeout(function()

fibaro:call(44, "turnOff");

end, 24000)

end

Is there a better way to do this so I don't have to have on or off? Just activate scene. Remember im completely new so go easy and everybody has to learn somewhere

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Thanks

[OnnoH 1]

I use sceneActivation for this.

Put all your switch off commands in a scene (without the delay). Jot down the ID

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Then create another scene with the code below. Change 196 to the device ID of your front door switch and the startScene ID with the one you prepared above.

(If you do it this way, you can reuse the scene with another sceneActivation, without copying over a stack of code)

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Also enable the scene activation parameter (for the dimmers it's 41) for the device. If you own a pulse switch, things are a little more convenient, but it should work with momentary switches.

[Guest David R]

Ill try this later thanks!! :->

[Daniel.Knight 1]

Hey David,

Quick and dirty tip for applying the same command to multiple devices:

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What this does is drops your device IDs into an array, and then initiates a loop that sends the relevant command to each device one after the other. You can then add as many (or few) devices into that array as you like.

This is basically the same as doing multiple duplicate lines like this:

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But just more efficiently.

Hope this helps!

Dan

[ Added: 2014-10-18, 12:39 ]

Just noticed your support ticket as well - I'll post my reply here if you don't mind? That way others can benefit...

The error you're getting is because you're trying to call 2 devices in a single function:

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You can't do that, you need a line per device, like this:

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Or, use the method I described above.

Cheers,

Dan

[Guest David R]

Thanks Dan

What I want to do is go round room one by one turning off the appliances one by one at one second intervals. Am I right thinking I have to fibaro:sleep (1000) between each id.

[Daniel.Knight 1]

Hey David,

Sure, just need to add a sleep. Something like this:

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That will turn off each of the devices in the array with a 1 second gap between each one.

Dan

[ Added: 2014-10-18, 13:37 ]

Actually one thing to consider is that the order that items get returned from the pairs() function is not defined, even for indexed tables.

What this means in practice is that the devices won't turn off in any consistent order.

Is that something you specifically require? My whole house off uses this, because in practice I don't care what order they go off in, the important part is that they all go off.

[Guest David R]

Hey Dan. I was after a little bit of order room by room finishing with the hall so ill guess ill have to put in order manually. Thanks for the tip though! Ive now come to make a timer for the bathroom fan and thought I would use your example but change the ids to mine. It doesn't work though? Error line 6

--[[

%% properties

127 value

%% globals

--]]

local lightID = 127 -- change in the trigger if you change it here

local fanID = 139

local fanDelay = 2 * 60 -- 2 minutes (the value is in seconds)

-- Only allow one instance of the current scene to run at a time

if (fibaro:countScenes() > 1) then

fibaro:abort()

end

local value, timestamp = fibaro:get(lightID, "value")

if (value == '0') then -- is the light off?

-- the light has been turned off

-- keep looping until the light has been off for 2 minutes

while ((value ~= '0') or ((os.time() - timestamp) < fanDelay)) do

fibaro:sleep(1000) -- let other things happen for a second, just wait here

value, timestamp = fibaro:get(lightID, "value")

end

-- the light has been off for long enough now.

fibaro:call(fanID, "turnOff") -- turn off the fan

else

-- the light has been turned on

fibaro:call(fanID, "turnOn") -- turn on the fan

end