Too many instances

[alexndr 1]

I'm trying to build a block scene to turn off lights if no motion is detected for 3 hours (see attachment) but I keep hitting "Too many instances" running. I'm clearly doing something wrong. Suggestions? 

 

I'm running HC2 4.090. 

 

Thanks. 

 

/Alex

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[chaicka 195]

You did not display an important part of the scene - the triggering parameters on the top of this scene GUI. That information is important to analyze what is happening.

 

Assumptions:

Duration of 3 hours is very long period and in between, if the device's wake-up interval is shorter (i.e. 30 mins), that means it keeps triggering the scene and each trigger = 1 instance.

 

Tip:

A common mistake I see with creating block scenes is that most pple forget to understand the "triggers" on top and whether the default added/ticked "triggers" meet their needs or not. The default mechanism make assumptions and enables too many triggers that ain't necessary.

[alexndr 1]

Added new attachment with trigger included.  

 

 

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[Momos 103]

As far as i know, but mind please that i didn't play much with block scenes,  is that 10800 s does not work like you want....

It works like this: Scene is started and the status of the motion sensor is checked after 10800 s. So the scene doesn't look if the sensor was safe for 10800s, but if it is safe after 10800s have passed - like a delay. Any movement you have during that delay will trigger another scene with the same delay and so on...

[alexndr 1]

As far as i know, but mind please that i didn't play much with block scenes,  is that 10800 s does not work like you want....

It works like this: Scene is started and the status of the motion sensor is checked after 10800 s. So the scene doesn't look if the sensor was safe for 10800s, but if it is safe after 10800s have passed - like a delay. Any movement you have during that delay will trigger another scene with the same delay and so on...

I played around some more with it and I think you're right. Not sure that I could accomplish this with a block scene so I moved on to creating it using a LUA- scene instead.

Fibaro should really put some more time into updating their documentation. How to correctly use the delay parameters seems to be uncovered?