Scene runs constantly instead of once at sunset

[patfel 0]

This scene keeps running when I don't expect it to. Within 1 minute after I switch off all lights, this scene runs and the lights (devices 11 and 35) turn on. Very frustrating. It is supposed to run once per day at sunset. I use the following graphical block code, and have ticked the "Autorun when HC2 starts" option.

 

The auto generated Lua code looks like this: It appears as if the second block might be executing as it checks for day of the week, but not the time of day? Any ideas what is going on here? Why is this scene running all the time?

 

Thanks for your help!

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[shaunfrost 9]

yeah, did this LUA come from converting from Blocks? Its written quite odd.

this script will run from autostart, and also with any other trigger like the button press and then turn lights on..

[Dave_H 52]

Hi @patfel

 

The problem is caused by the "or  true" that has been added to the end of the If statements, and as a result the code will always run every minute.  To my mind, this looks like a bit of a bug in the block scene generator, but @Fibaro may disagree.

 

What I suggest you do is to write two block scenes: one triggered by sunset, and the other triggered by the remote control button.  That way there won't be any conflict between the two.

 

Dave

[patfel 0]

Yes @shaunfrost the code is autogenerated. Thanks @Dave Harrison, I will try your suggestion.

Yes that solved the problem. Here is the new auto generated code. What is the "StartSource == other" code at the end? Will this turn the lights on when the HC2 restarts? That would be unwanted behaviour also.

 

Thanks again for your help.

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Edited March 28, 2017 by patfel

[redsave 6]

the

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block is auto-generated to permit the start of the scene using the "play" button in the interface. So you can run the scene manually if you want to. Otherwise the scene will run the tempFunc() if started with the autorun.

[patfel 0]

8 hours ago, redsave said:

the

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block is auto-generated to permit the start of the scene using the "play" button in the interface. So you can run the scene manually if you want to. Otherwise the scene will run the tempFunc() if started with the autorun.

 

thanks @redsave. It's a pity the graphical code is buggy. Perhaps I should invest the time to learn Lua and code it myself. Look at the Lua code auto generated for the remote button 3!

 

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[redsave 6]

Yes you should learn LUA  I don't have any block scene, it's a mess... LUA is not so difficult to learn, you can do it!

[kunoch 27]

I had similar problems with a scene this weekend (behaved like the useless machine ).

I created a variable and have a scene, setting this variable at noon (can be any time) to the value 0 (meaning scene has not been executed). The scene being run once only (90 min before sunset) checks the variable for the value 0 and only then does the "then" and sets the variable to 255 ( any value other than 0 would work).

I also tried with the predefined variables, having a variable with values 0 and 1 but somehow this did not work. Should basically be the same, but behaved identical to the useless machine.

I hope you get the point.