Disabling a device from Lua script

[johnd 0]

Hi all!

I am a bit of a newbee to LUA so have been reading/stealing a lot of good things from this Forum. Thanks to all contributors for that!

 

I have just installed my garage door to be controlled by a Fibaro switch. It works great but as I have no sight in HC2 to whether the garage door is open or closed (it is a simple trigger open/trigger close door)  I would like to disable the device with the start of the virtual device Away/Holiday (that also sets a predefined variable.). By disabling the garage door device I won't have to worry about accidentally opening the garage door when away.

 

On the developer forum I did find some code that should be able to this but can't seem to get it to work:
function Device:setEnabled(true)

For one, I don't know what to fill in for Device. ID does not seem to work.

 

The system also accepts the code below but I does not seem to do anything.

fibaro:call(67, 'setEnabled','False') 

 

Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? Thanks!

[j.nowacki 5]

Do you want to deactivate Switch itself or some virtual device that operates it? If switch itself, it is not really possible - there is no protection mode in this module. To make sure you will not activate it accidentally I would recommend hiding device itself, and operating switch with Virtual Device that will check for some kind of global variable set by Away/Holiday device.

[AutoFrank 372]

Hi all!

I am a bit of a newbee to LUA so have been reading/stealing a lot of good things from this Forum. Thanks to all contributors for that!

 

I have just installed my garage door to be controlled by a Fibaro switch. It works great but as I have no sight in HC2 to whether the garage door is open or closed (it is a simple trigger open/trigger close door)  I would like to disable the device with the start of the virtual device Away/Holiday (that also sets a predefined variable.). By disabling the garage door device I won't have to worry about accidentally opening the garage door when away.

 

On the developer forum I did find some code that should be able to this but can't seem to get it to work:

function Device:setEnabled(true)

For one, I don't know what to fill in for Device. ID does not seem to work.

 

The system also accepts the code below but I does not seem to do anything.

fibaro:call(67, 'setEnabled','False') 

 

Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? Thanks!

 

I know this post is old but i use a relay to control my garage door and use a standard alarm contact connected to a universal binary sensor to see if it is opened or closed. I also connected  a DS18B20 temp probe to the UBS and can also read the temperature in the garage.

I used a normal indoor contact sensor (and magnet) for the garage.

 

I also have the same setup for my gates but this time I used a more industrial contact sensor (similar to 

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I placed the sensor in the motor housing under the gates and routed the cable to the control box for the gates which is just behind the pillar. This is where I placed the UBS for this setup. I also replaced the contact sensor magnet that came with it with a couple of small but powerful magnets that are stuck to the gate 'shoe' in the motor box.

 

This setup gives me open/close control and status on the HC2.

 

I could share some more detail or pictures of either setup is anybody is interested.