From Dusk till Dawn?

[rowi 0]

Sounds weird, since there are some "time of day" posts here but isn't there a simple way of turning a light on when it's dark and vice versa? I found the Fibaro Motion Sensors too slow to report the current light intensity and since there is a basic way in general of just calculating the time the sun goes down there must be a really simple way in the HC2, but I'm blind... Could someone help me please?

Best regards

Rolf

[U5tabil 2]

you have timer that is "sunset" and "sunrise" that should go on your location. then you can say at sunset lights on. You can also adjust the lux monitoring on the sensor to update more often giving you better readouts.

[dw89 8]

Easy mate,

Make two scenes and create a predefined global called isNightOrDay with two variables in it 'Night' and 'Day'.

Then in scene one (blocks if you like, LUA if you can), call it Day Scene, do it to check on EVERY day of the week and basically say that when time=sunrise set global to 'Day'

Scene 2 do the same but for sunset then global to 'Night.

Once you've done that it works easy as in every scene you have you just check the variable.

So, if isNightOrDay = Night then 'turnOn' whatever lights you want. Simples

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Day example:

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local sourceTrigger = fibaro:getSourceTrigger();

if (sourceTrigger["type"] == "autostart") then

while true do

local currentDate = os.date("*t");

local startSource = fibaro:getSourceTrigger();

if (

( ((currentDate.wday == 1 or currentDate.wday == 2 or currentDate.wday == 3 or currentDate.wday == 4 or currentDate.wday == 5 or currentDate.wday == 6 or currentDate.wday == 7) and string.format("%02d", currentDate.hour) .. ":" .. string.format("%02d", currentDate.min) == fibaro:getValue(1, "sunriseHour")) )

)

then

fibaro:setGlobal("isDayOrNight", "Day");

end

fibaro:sleep(60*1000);

end

else

local currentDate = os.date("*t");

local startSource = fibaro:getSourceTrigger();

if (

startSource["type"] == "other"

)

then

fibaro:setGlobal("isDayOrNight", "Day");

end

end

[rowi 0]

Oh hell, I was so stuck in interval based timers that I missed this one! Thanks a lot, now got it. You don't want to see how much I programmed around that including adjusting my scripts manually every week to set the new sunrise time

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[Guest Charly]

You can shorten the if .. then a lot because you use it every day.

if (

( ((currentDate.wday == 1 or currentDate.wday == 2 or currentDate.wday == 3 or currentDate.wday == 4 or currentDate.wday == 5 or currentDate.wday == 6 or currentDate.wday == 7) and string.format("%02d", currentDate.hour) .. ":" .. string.format("%02d", currentDate.min) == fibaro:getValue(1, "sunriseHour")) )

)

then

change to

if (

( ( string.format("%02d", currentDate.hour) .. ":" .. string.format("%02d", currentDate.min) == fibaro:getValue(1, "sunriseHour")) )

)

then

[U5tabil 2]

Been working on 1 scene to put all time of day variables in one here. You can use this one.

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