Getting ID of current scene in LUA

[StarkJohan 6]

When I set up my initial system way back in 3.X a couple of years ago there was no way of getting the ID of the current scene in LUA, is this still true for 4.090? 

 

fibaro:getSelfId() works for VDs but surely there must be a way of doing the same thing for scenes by now? Hardcoding that type of thing is so 1997.

 

Among other things I wish to kill the current scene using killScenes without hardcoding.

[Sankotronic 2,370]

I have around 60 scenes and never needed that option so I'm curious why you need to get scene ID from LUA code? It make sense to get it for VD because then it is possible to change icon or label etc., but for scene? To stop scene running it is enough to use fibaro:abort(). Can you also explain to me what you mean by hardcoding?

[StarkJohan 6]

I didn't know (or forgot about) fibaro:abort, thanks! Maybe it was added since I made my setup in 3.5X or whatever?

 

In this case I need to kill all instances of the current scene, fibaro:abort() does not do this.

 

Another use would be to register the scene running in a global variable for example, interacting with other scenes, VDs and external units on the network. It could be used for making more dynamic and general scenes for many different tasks.

 

Hardcoding in this example would be:

 

local thisSceneId = 123;

 

If you look closer on many of the a bit more advanced scenes posted on this forum you will see scene id hardcoding is frequently used. 

 

Edit:

To clarify and give you some context. I have a scene for our coffee maker to turn off after X minutes. A sceneActivation from a dimmer activates the scene when double tapping S2. It starts the "timer" and turns it off after the time is up. See the code below:

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[boerremk 84]

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--[[

%% properties

%% events

%% globals

--]]

local id = 5; -- Device id to handle

local time = 1; -- minutes

if (tonumber(fibaro:countScenes()) > 1) then

fibaro:debug("Script already running.");

fibaro:abort();

end

if (fibaro:getValue(id, 'value') == '0') then

fibaro:debug("Device " .. id .. " will turnOn for " .. time .. " minute(s)");

fibaro:call(id, 'turnOn');

fibaro:sleep(time * 60 * 1000);

fibaro:debug("Device " .. id .. " will turnOff after being on for " .. time .. " minute(s)");

fibaro:call(id, 'turnOff');

else

fibaro:debug("Device " .. id .. " is already on, will now turnOff.");

fibaro:call(id, 'turnOff');

end

[StarkJohan 6]

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This will not work in the intended way. The script should turn off the device if it is already on.