Trigger lights between a range of times

[amatt 5]

I have a Home center Lite. My motion sensor to turn on my lights if it is between a certain lux in the room and if motion it detected. I have it set to not turn on the lights if it detects 0 lux in the room. This can be good for sleeping but what if it gets dark at 6pm with 0 lux in the room but I'm not ready for bed and want the lights to trigger with motion.

 

Does anyone know of a solution to only run my scene i created between a certain range of times during the day? thanks for the help

[Cafun 13]

Sorry I can't help you, but I'm bumping this topic to hopefully someone else has a solution for it.

[rozum 5]

I'd use global variable like isDay and switch it in specified times (e.g. 7:00am - isDay = 1; 8:00pm - isDay = 0) and add it to the condition.

[AutoFrank 372]

I have this in Lua but use a similar approach as rozum

I use a global variable called TOD_Light and switch it between day and night using lux levels - this is done In one scene and I then leverage this global variable in multiple other scenes

[Cafun 13]

Ah yes I guess that can be used by amatt.

I now see I meant it differently than amatt: I want to turn off light at a random time between 23:00 and 23:59 when I'm on holiday. I guess it needs to be done with math.random Lua function.

[rozum 5]

Ah yes I guess that can be used by amatt.

I now see I meant it differently than amatt: I want to turn off light at a random time between 23:00 and 23:59 when I'm on holiday. I guess it needs to be done with math.random Lua function.

 

You need HC2 (lua) for this. Let the math.random each morning generate random time (global variable - minutes) between 0-59 and compare times as triggers.

[Cafun 13]

I have HC2 so that's not a problem, but i'm not familiar with the math.random function. I'm going to see if I can make it work.

 

Edit:

Ah I found it already:

 

Let a scene create a random number on a specific time:

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Then, create another scene with the following code:

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Edit2:

Seems it generates the same number everytime. I think I've seen it here sometime, gonna search for it.

Maybe this is usefull for you too amatt.

 

Edit3:

Right, added one extra thing. Thanks to petergebruers :

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[amatt 5]

rozum, i followed your suggestion. When setting the active to 1 and the inactive to 0. With 1 being day time (when i wake up) and 0 being the inactive time (when i go to sleep) [see screenshots]. I created a scene when a specific time (9:30) then active = 1 and i created another scene when a specific time (22:00) then inactive = 0 [see screenshots]. I created another scene to trigger the lights come on when motion is triggered in the room [see screenshots]. 

 

What am i doing wrong?

 

 

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[amatt 5]

I have tried everything and it still is not working. i even contacted support and they are not helping. This should be a simple scene but it has turned into many sleepless nights "literally". The only time it "kinda" works is when i run the inactive scene manually. but then if someone triggered it at 4:00 am the lights will come on even though i told the active scene to activate at 8:30. any help would be appreciated.