Disarm alarm by scene

[MartinTrummer 0]

Hi,

 

I am using the HCL and I have a little problem with two scenes. I have a scene for when I leave the apartment, so that all blinds close, all lights go off, and all devices get armed (after three minutes). I furthermore have a scene for coming home, which turns on some lights, opens some blinds and disarms all devices. So far so good.

 

If I though decide within the 3 minutes that I do not want to leave, I press the button for the "Come home" scene. No problem with the lights or the blinds. All devices arm though after the three minutes are over (from the "Leave" scene). Apparently, they disarm when I press "Come home", but the "Leave" scene is still running in the background, causing them to arm again.

 

How can I fix that?

 

Regards

[j.nowacki 5]

You are right, there us action awaiting to be completed, no matter the disarm scene. I would recommend moving the arming action to separate scene, that will be run after 3 minutes. Then, in that separate scene look for some condition (maybe variable set in "coming back" scene) and then arm.

[MartinTrummer 0]

Thanks!

 

That works of course. I think it would be much smoother if it would be possible to stop a scene. Is there no way of doing that?

[rpienkowski 0]

Which version of HCL do you have? If 3.x, there is a possibility to make a virtual device that stops other scene. But if 4.x, this approach wouldn't work cause of problem with HTTP requests.

[MartinTrummer 0]

I have version 3.601, waiting for 4.x.

[rpienkowski 0]

Ok, so: Create new virtual device. Set IP Address to 127.0.0.1 and TCP Port to 11111. Choose any button to add and check "Main" on the top right corner. Then replace "String to send" to following statement:

 

GET /api/sceneControl?id=SCENE_ID&action=stop HTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1
Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4=

 

Where SCENE_ID is your scene's id. Now you can add to your second scene (coming home) a condition: if you are coming back, then turn your virtual device on. That will stop first scene.

[MartinTrummer 0]

Thanks for this great tip! I will definitely try it.

 

Once my HCL gets upgraded to v4, will the problem with the http requests be solved at some point?

[rpienkowski 0]

If you are waiting for the new 4.x, the problem shouldn't occurs. When I asked you about the version, I had in mind that there could be an issue on 4.044. If 4.053, it should work.

[MartinTrummer 0]

Sorry I need to open this topic again. Somehow my Virtual Device does not stop my scene. So all devices are still being armed. I attached some screenshots. Maybe they help to solve this.

 

Thanks,

Martin

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[MartinTrummer 0]

I somehow cannot make it work. I tried also your newest suggestions. Is it possible that the path has changed in v4? What about the authorization. Do I need to adapt that to my system?