Motion sensor triggering lamp; should be simple!!!

[pocster 0]

Hey all

I thought I would start simple!. But can't even get this to work.

Simple scene script as below.

Any advice welcome.

thanks

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[stevenvd 51]

is your sensor "armed" in the fibaro interface?

[rajp 14]

Do you need the status to be armed and breached?? As Stevenvd said, is the sensor armed? If you don't want to use it based on that, change it to breached and that should work.

[pocster 0]

Hi,

Yes. Sensor is armed. tried 'breached' and 'breached and armed' ; still nothing

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Done a simple test in lua :

fibaro:call(6, "sendEmail" ,"fghfhfg" ,"pump" );

6 is the 'id' of my email . Nothing gets sent

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[rajp 14]

Have you checked how many of those scenes do you have running?? May be need to stop and restart that..

This is my scene based on sensor breach.

The following works for me for email.

fibaro:call(2, "sendEmail", "Drive Lights On", "Drive Lights On");

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[pocster 0]

No joy.

Given up with the 'block' approach so gone into Lua hoping that the more control makes for a better experience.....

[ Added: 2014-11-12, 10:16 ]

Hmmm,

All kinds of 'issues'. It would seem through experience and going through these forums that the firmware is very buggy; making the system unusable and certainly unreliable. Time to look at Indigo I guess.

[j.nowacki 5]

pocster, you are running beta software, hence bugs and unstable behavior may occur. Please return to 3.590 if you are using FIBARO in working installation.

[janton 2]

rajp...

Can you please tell me how to configure DayTime -variable?

I am trying to do the same scene (block based) as you have done. Door breached -> light will turn on. I want that to happen only at evening. At daytime the light will not turn on.

So how to configure daytime ?

Thanks...

[rajp 14]

I have the following scene that sets 2 variables (Night and Daytime) according to what time it is.. It sets 45 mins before Sunset to Night = 1 and Daytime to be Off and then reverts back to opposite 25 mins after Sunrise.

Make sure your location is set correctly as it bases the Sunset and Sunrise time according to that.

I use Night and Daytime as Global variables.

Hope this helps.

Raj

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--[[

%% properties

%% autostart

%% globals

--]]

local BeforeSunset = 45

local AfterSunrise = 25

while true do

if (os.date("%H:%M", os.time()+BeforeSunset*60) >= fibaro:getValue(1, "sunsetHour"))

or (os.date("%H:%M", os.time()-AfterSunrise*60) < fibaro:getValue(1, "sunriseHour"))

then

fibaro:setGlobal("Night", 1);

fibaro:setGlobal("DayTime", "Off");

else

fibaro:setGlobal("Night", 0);

fibaro:setGlobal("DayTime", "On");

end

fibaro:sleep(60*1000);

end

[pocster 0]

Sigh.

I had to upgrade because other things did not work in the "stable" version of the software.

2 steps forward 2.1 steps backward.....

[ Added: 2014-11-14, 18:25 ]

Is the most BASIC home automation task such as:

Motion sensor turns on light OR

Read power consumption from socket OR

In the room view I have listed an alarm which I don't OR

I turn on a light in the room view and the wrong light turns on OR

Devices become dead nodes for no reason (next to the unit only a few devices) OR

Fibaro's own 'eye' doesn't report luminance or temperature OR

etc. etc.

On that basis as a software engineer that tells me the system is unstable and unusable.

What hope is there to achieve complex tasks.

Although I changed from Vera 3 with it's ugly unfriendly UI and upsetting slow speed these basic tasks worked. I upgraded to beta because most of the basics don't work. So what now?

Stays with v4 where things don't work or downgrade to v3 where things don't work.

No thanks!

STOP!. Fix bugs!. NO NEW FEATURES and glossy adverts promising the world!

MAKE IT WORK FIRST!

What worries me is Fibaro are on V4 and it's still unstable.

Go and LOOK at the Indigo forum; just look!....... 100's of problem and complaints?

No!; a working system is what you detect where everyone is happy. Yes; of course there are some issues - and you'll see in the forum [ANSWERED] or [FIXED].

Indigo requires a Mac ; too expensive?. 2nd hand mac mini + z wave USB + indigo license cheaper than HC 2.

Just my view. Sure this will get deleted. Apologies to users with HC 2 trying to work theire way through.

Cheers

[rajp 14]

I am on 3.590 version on my HC2 and it works just fine.. what is it that is forcing you to upgrade to v4?? Remember V4 is still a Beta. Though saying that 3.590 is not without pain but is a pretty stable version. Keep in mind, you can pick up a mac mini for £399 in the UK where as HC2 is £499 so indigo is also an option.

And people agree with you that, Fibaro should stop doing other activities and concentrate on getting a stable version that does what they advertise.