Simple scene to turn on/off group of lights with startScene

[AutoFrank 372]

Hi,

I was tidying up my light scenes where I turn on of off batches of lights (at night, going away, etc) and I wanted something simpler and more reliable. 

I created a very simple scene that stores the light ID's (or HomeTable references, as I have)  in a table and you pass the action (turnOn or tunrOff) in the startScene call so no need to use a global variable

The scene code is not really mean to be a solution like Smart message Hub but more of a case of sharing what I put together.

It a small amount of error handling and warnings should ID's be incorrect and should be easy enough to pick through as a learningexercise

 

The scene call is simple

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I included just two options 

deBug : set to true to see lights as they are checked

delay : this will set a sleep or delay between each light if you find that switching them off too fast is causing some to be missed

Comment out the reference to HomeTable (line 10) is you don't use this method

 

Scene Code is below

 

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PS - This approach could easily be expanded to store a number of groups (table) of lights in the the scene and pass 2 parameters in the startScene call, one parameter could be used to decide which group of lights and the second could be used to selection the action (turnOn, turnOn)

 

Enjoy - Happy Coding

-f

 

 

 

[Bodyart 231]

Hi @AutoFrank,

 

any idea how the memory usae of HC2 behaves, when you're making big, bigger biggest hometable?

 

[AutoFrank 372]

1 minute ago, Bodyart said:

Hi @AutoFrank,

 

any idea how the memory usae of HC2 behaves, when you're making big, bigger biggest hometable?

 

 

@Bodyart

I'm not a HC2 memory expert but the table is just a variable with text in it.

I don't expect that making it the size of all your devices is going to make any difference

 

I have the 'system' tables - Home, State and Network and I don't have any issues

-f

  

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[Bodyart 231]

thnx @AutoFrank, I understand, that probable it's only a quite small of memory usage..

[jimicr 90]

Very nice scene @AutoFrank!

 

Just thinking how to go about dimmers, turnOn and if dimmer then setValue 90...

I need to win a lottery so I can have more spare time to get my head around LUA

 

Jim

[AutoFrank 372]

22 minutes ago, jimicr said:

ust thinking how to go about dimmers, turnOn and if dimmer then setValue 90.

 

@jimicr

I think (haven't tested) if you turnOn a dimmer it will turn on at the last set value - CONFIRMED

 

Two options sprnt to mind....

Create two tables (one for switch and one for dimmers) and add some extre for when it steps through the dimmer table it setValue to a defined level

expand existing table with a dimmer 'flag' and add extra code  to either 'turnOn' or 'setValue'

 

both easy enough to do 

 

to be honest I use this for batch light instructions and as such it's mostly off 

The only time I could think about turning pn a lot of lights on a time if is we had an emergency (fire, need max visibility) or security issue ( turn on all lights outside to see who is stealing my carrots  )

 

TBH - the real reason I shared is because it an 'easier to understand' example of passing an argument with a startScene command than the implementation in Smart Message Hub. I've gotten so much form people on this forum that I try and give back when I can.

 

22 minutes ago, jimicr said:

win a lottery

 

I've be trying this for a good while now but the odds seem stacked against me

 

Edited April 1, 2017 by AutoFrank

[AutoFrank 372]

3 hours ago, jimicr said:

Just thinking how to go about dimmers

 

Hi @jimicr

 

Scene modified to cater for dimmers

 

Table structure is slightly changed

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dim = the predefined value for each light...

 

Full scene code is below

It doesn't cater yet for a dimmer light being on to a lesser value than the predefined value in the table, but I#'ll make that change and post again in a few days

 

Scene call is the same as in the first post

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[jimicr 90]

Thanks will play with soon

[Sankotronic 2,370]

This is good idea how I can solve turning On/Off my outside lighting. They are all HUE bulbs and I'm a simple man so for me it is one brightness setting for all. So I can just pass two arguments when calling scene:

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Since I'm using HUE VD I can actually only pass brightness value since set to 0 will turn them off:

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But then, these are HUE bulbs, the ones with color so I can actually do even better by passing to scene all three arguments brightness, hue and saturation:

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I can do even better if I split bulbs to areas like terrace, pool, arbour and bbq. Then I can send different settings for each area:

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Scene can check number of the arguments passed and act accordingly  

[AutoFrank 372]

2 minutes ago, Sankotronic said:

This is good idea how I can solve turning On/Off my outside lighting. They are all HUE bulbs and I'm a simple man so for me it is one brightness setting for all. So I can just pass two arguments when calling scene:

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Since I'm using HUE VD I can actually only pass brightness value since set to 0 will turn them off:

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But then, these are HUE bulbs, the ones with color so I can actually do even better by passing to scene all three arguments brightness, hue and saturation:

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I can do even better if I split bulbs to areas like terrace, pool, arbour and bbq. Then I can send different settings for each area:

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Scene can check number of the arguments passed and act accordingly  

 

@Sankotronic

 

I'm glad you can find a use for this...

 

It got created by accident to be honest ....

I was looking to improve my own light scenes for turning off the lights

This morphed into something more generic

Then I added checks to see if a light was on, so I would only turn those off

Then I added the ability to turn them on

 

...and then the monster above appeared

 

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Quick question re hue - do you control directly with the HC2 or do you use a bridge ?

I was thinking about getting a couple to play with...

 

 

 

[Sankotronic 2,370]

1 minute ago, AutoFrank said:

Quick question re hue - do you control directly with the HC2 or do you use a bridge ?

I was thinking about getting a couple to play with...

 

Hi @AutoFrank,

 

My Angelina is sending commands to HUE bridge over the LAN. HUE bridge is set to static IP address of course. It is not possible to communicate directly to bulbs since they are using zigbee protocol only.

 

4 minutes ago, AutoFrank said:

...and then the monster above appeared

 

Ha, ha, ha, I have same approach. First it is simple solution, but then ideas start dropping on my head and soon I have headache and 'monster' code that even I can't follow any more  

[AutoFrank 372]

10 minutes ago, Sankotronic said:

HUE bridge

 

Thanks @Sankotronic

What are you hosting Hue bridge on (Pi or something else ?), Is there a good set of 'setup instructions' somewhere simple enough even for me to follow 

[Sankotronic 2,370]

14 minutes ago, AutoFrank said:

 

Thanks @Sankotronic

What are you hosting Hue bridge on (Pi or something else ?), Is there a good set of 'setup instructions' somewhere simple enough even for me to follow 

 

No need for any hosts. Angelina's HUE VD is sending commands directly to HUE bridge using Net.FHttp. You can download one HUE VD and check.

[AutoFrank 372]

@Sankotronic

 

So the HUE bridge is actually a VD and not a separate device ?

[Sankotronic 2,370]

6 minutes ago, AutoFrank said:

@Sankotronic

 

So the HUE bridge is actually a VD and not a separate device ?

 

Hi @AutoFrank,

 

Philips HUE bridge is separate device that controls HUE bulbs, so it is physical device, real one connected to home network so that HUE bulbs can be controlled by mobile devices even when you are not at home. It is needed even if you have HC2. HC is just sending commands over the home network to bridge and getting back status of the HUE bulbs with HUE VD.

 

You don't really need HUE VD since you can add Net.FHttp commands to any VD you make. 

 

[AutoFrank 372]

@Sankotronic

 

ahhh... thanks

 

interesting

 

Do you have any of these 

 

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I wonder could I use this with a hue bridge to hijack the commands send by this device to the bridge for another purpose such as control my sonos volume in a room or anything else

... must read a bit more on this

 

thanks

Edited April 4, 2017 by AutoFrank