*SOLVED* Can you not retrieve values from battery devices?

[dw89 8]

Hi All,

May be a stupid question but I've never really thought of it until I just tried to debug a script. Basically I tried (for debug purposes) to get the 'value' of a doorsensor and it's 'armed' status. When I did this and tried to print out to screen all I get is an error saying that cannot concatenate a NIL value for _test (below). Basically saying it cannot put a null value into the variable. So my question is what to do? I am guessing it will work properly when the id for the device is triggered and, guess, is awake and so it's value is past through to scene script but can we not pull values from battery devices at all? Either that or am I doing something else wrong?

KR, Dave segment of code below:

if tonumber(fibaro:getValue(_outerSpotsDeviceI, "value")) == 0 then

fibaro:call(_outerSpotsDeviceI, "turnOn");

else

local _test tonumber(fibaro:getValue(_silveloxFDoorID, "value"));

-- local _test = 10;

local _test1 tonumber(fibaro:getValue(_silveloxFDoorID, "armed"));

fibaro:debug('Kitchen Lights already on');

fibaro:debug('Silvelox id: ' .._test); -- ..'and is: ' .._test1);

end

[ Added: 2015-01-11, 00:48 ]

Woah the forums are busy at the minute!?

>300 views and no thoughts anyone??

[HorseOne 1]

You can actually gather information from battery operated devices.

I am using the script below to collect information from a D/W sensor and send a message to my telephone if it is open for more than 3 minutes.

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[dw89 8]

Hmm, I wonder why the debug is coming back with 'try to concatenate NIL value failed' then?

I'm lost. Seems like an easy thing, if I transpose the getvalue command for initialising the variable just = 10; then it reads out 10 into debug window. Put the value back and I get that error message!

Odd!

Thanks for reply though, nice script:)

[HorseOne 1]

if this is really an excerpt of your script, then the following line won't work:

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if you want to assign a value to your variable, you should add the '=' sign:

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[dw89 8]

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See, that;s why I love the forum....someone spots what I can't see right in front of my stupid face!

That;s where copy n paste gets you!! My bad, cheers HorseOne, obvious mistake for previous reason....no idea why I didn't spot it to be honest....was late when I did the scene! That's my excuse anyway!

Cheers, Solved!

[HorseOne 1]

Good to hear that you solved it.

Cheers.

[dw89 8]

Well you did to be fair....

My Cheval to the rescue lol!!!