best practice to get rid of "too many instances" notification?

[maxdreamland 1]

Hi,

 

for some of my scenes i frequently receive notifications that there were too many instances. I understand why this happens (and that it is not a "problem" per se), but i wonder what is the "best practice" to get rid of the rather useless notification that informs me about it.

 

I understand that, for example this can happen for a scene that has more than one trigger. Lets say a door sensor and a motion detector. When i open the door and enter the room those can "fire" shortly after another and may or may not  invoke two instances of the scene. And since the maximum number of parallel instances of that scene is set to 1, I receive the useless notification.

 

My way of handling this so far is to increase the maximum number of instances to 2 and include code like this in the beginning of the scene:

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this supresses the useless notification and seems to work fine.

 

Is this a good/right way to handle this if the notification annoys you? or can you disable certain types of notifications alltogether somehow?

 

best regards

Max

[Igy 23]

Or just increase max number of instances to higher number.

[Joacim 11]

That is a good way and always proffered just to be safe if your logic gets lost in LUA land. Another method and may be used in conjunction could be to check what state the actuator already have. If the desired state of the actuator already is true then the script doesn't have to run.

 

IE.

If motion and light is off.

Turn on light.

[maxdreamland 1]

alright. thanks guys!