Ceiling Fan VD

[Valken 0]

Good Day,

Can someone please help me with a script to achieve the following:

I have a ceiling fan with a light and 3 speed settings. I have created a VD with 4 buttons, One that turns the fan Off and the other 3 for the speed settings (Slow, Medium, Fast) using global cache ip2ir as the fan is controlled by infrared.

Now, i would like to make a scene that checks the Fibaro motion sensor's temperature and turn on or off the fan accordingly.

So, IF temp is above 26 Degrees - Turn on fan to low speed (Push button 2 on VD)

IF temp is above 29 Degrees - Turn on fan to Medium speed (Push button 3 on VD)

IF temp is above 31 Degrees - Turn on fan to High speed (Push button 4 on VD)

and if temp falls below 26 degrees turn OFF fan!

How can i do this?

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thank You,

[ScottM 3]

Hi,

I'll help you - I'm on holidays and am learning LUA myself.

Just need a bit of time to sort an issue - I'm using 4.024 and I get "ACCESS DENIED" whenever I try to run a scene as admin

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EDIT: ok.. it seems that even though the Alarm panel was showing "DISARMED", I had a motion sensor active and it was stopping me running / saving scenes.. I'll post where I'm up to soon.

[ Added: 2014-12-28, 10:52 ]

ok.. here is my first attempt..

Assumptions / Instructions

1) Not sure if you have labels on the virtual device. The follow note is published:

" Each element of a virtual device has a unique number starting from 1. If your virtual device has two labels followed by two buttons, the buttons will be numbered 3 and 4."

You may need to play around with the button numbers.

In this example, the button number is 4

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2) Everywhere you see the number 74, replace with the device ID of your temp sensor

3) Everwhere you see 31 [not 31.0], replace that with the device ID of your virtual device that controls the fan

4) There used to be a "start scene when Home Center boots" or something similar on the general tab. If you see that, make sure it's checked.

5) NOTE: I have programmed this without checking it as I don't have your virtual device. Let me know how you go, any problems etc.

6) Welcome any advice if anyone else notices something I did wrong

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Let me know how you go. I can PM you my email address / skype details if it gets a bit difficult

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[Valken 0]

Hi Scottm,

Thank you for the help. Apologies for late reply. I was away on holiday.

I get the following error below in screenshot. I am on latest firmware 4.024

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[SDeath 67]

Change line 14 to:

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See if that helps.

[ScottM 3]

Thanks

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Casting to a number should work .

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Thanks

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Casting to a number should work .

But maybe the 26.0 parts throw it off.

Personally I wouldn't use the .0 part if it is a whole number your using anyway.

But I can see in the example you maybe want to show it can be used or something like that.

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[Valken 0]

Thank you guys!

This seems to work. Not getting the error anymore. Will test properly and give feedback.

[SDeath 67]

Thank you guys!

This seems to work. Not getting the error anymore. Will test properly and give feedback.

Awesome!

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Your welcome!

[ScottM 3]

I just noticed looking at your screenshot the first if statement is for >26 degrees, second is >28 etc. You need to do it in the order I did in my example or it will not work correctly.

That's because 31 is greater than 26. Currently it will Push button 2 if hotter than 26 or off if < 26 but never react to other temps.

[SDeath 67]

Or you can change the lines to check for both values so like: (temp > 26) and (temp <= 28).