Block scene function (washing machine notification)

[Ole 14]

Hi everybody!

 

Just a quick question: When I create block scenes there is one "box" that I am having trouble grasping the functionality of and that is the red one where you can enter number of seconds. As I am having trouble getting a few of my block scenes to behave like I want I am wondering if someone could explain what it does exactly. Is it delay before running the next block of the scene, or is it duration of the condition/block that it is part of, or is it something else?

 

An example: I want to create a scene that tells me when the washing machine is done. So I want the scene to send a push notification to my phone when the power consumption has been less than 2W for 5 minutes. If someone could create a scene that would accomplish that and post a screen shot of it I would be very grateful.

 

The ones I have created sort of works but I get "to many instances" warnings all the time even if I select 10 instances, and so they are not really working all that great. I thought by using a variable that is changed when the condition is met would result in the scene not being started over and over again, but that is not working optimally either.

 

I realise that it would probably be better/easier to use LUA, but I have no knowledge of LUA and so I thought it would be fun to get it working with block scenes.

 

I have added screen shots of the scene that I use to set the variable, to 1 indicating that the washing machine is running, at the start of the cycle and the scene that is supposed to run once when the cycle is done.

 

Regards

Ole

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[TRicky 84]

Not my own design, forget who did the original design. And it's working:

 

--[[
%% autostart
%% properties
983 power
%% globals
--]]

local power_socket = 983
local powerlive = fibaro:getValue(power_socket, "power") -- monitored unit
  fibaro:debug("Verbruik = "..powerlive.." Watt");
  fibaro:debug("De wasmachine staat uit (Stekker wel ingestoken)");
if (fibaro:countScenes()>1)
then
 fibaro:abort();
 fibaro:debug("Max aantal scene's bereikt!");
  end
local run = 0
local power_socket = 983
local currentDate = os.date("*t");
local power = fibaro:getValue(power_socket, "power")
local counter = 0

if ( tonumber(fibaro:getValue(power_socket, "power")) > 35 ) and run == 0 then
  local start = (os.time())
  fibaro:debug("Wasmachine is bezig")
  fibaro:debug("Verbruik = "..power.." Watt")
run = 1
end

while run == 1 do

if ( tonumber(fibaro:getValue(power_socket, "power")) < 6) then
     counter = counter + 1
    local power2 = fibaro:getValue(power_socket, "power")
        fibaro:debug('counter = ' ..counter.. " : "..power2.."Watt")
    end
          if ( tonumber(fibaro:getValue(power_socket, "power")) > 6) then
      counter = 0
    end
       if ( tonumber(fibaro:getValue(power_socket, "power")) < 6) and counter > 60 then
          fibaro:debug("Wasmachine is klaar.")
          local power3 =  fibaro:getValue(power_socket, "power")
          fibaro:debug("Verbruik 3 = "..power3.." Watt")
          fibaro:debug("Verstuur bericht")
          fibaro:call(1060, "sendPush", "Uw Wasmachine is klaar: " .. string.format("%02d", currentDate.hour) .. ":" .. string.format("%02d", currentDate.min)); 
          fibaro:call(616, "sendPush", "Uw Wasmachine is klaar: " .. string.format("%02d", currentDate.hour) .. ":" .. string.format("%02d", currentDate.min));
run = 0
       end
 
  fibaro:sleep(1*1000)
end

[riemers 20]

Not much help, but i can recall i did see a post around on the forum of a person that did just that in Lua. Sadly the search on the forum doesn't really like me when it comes to smart searching

[jimicr 90]

35 minutes ago, riemers said:

Not much help, but i can recall i did see a post around on the forum of a person that did just that in Lua. Sadly the search on the forum doesn't really like me when it comes to smart searching

Hi All,

 

@riemers, you must mean this one: 

 

[Jamie mccrostie 82]

5 hours ago, Ole said:

Hi everybody!

 

Just a quick question: When I create block scenes there is one "box" that I am having trouble grasping the functionality of and that is the red one where you can enter number of seconds. As I am having trouble getting a few of my block scenes to behave like I want I am wondering if someone could explain what it does exactly. Is it delay before running the next block of the scene, or is it duration of the condition/block that it is part of, or is it something else?

 

An example: I want to create a scene that tells me when the washing machine is done. So I want the scene to send a push notification to my phone when the power consumption has been less than 2W for 5 minutes. If someone could create a scene that would accomplish that and post a screen shot of it I would be very grateful.

 

The ones I have created sort of works but I get "to many instances" warnings all the time even if I select 10 instances, and so they are not really working all that great. I thought by using a variable that is changed when the condition is met would result in the scene not being started over and over again, but that is not working optimally either.

 

I realise that it would probably be better/easier to use LUA, but I have no knowledge of LUA and so I thought it would be fun to get it working with block scenes.

 

I have added screen shots of the scene that I use to set the variable, to 1 indicating that the washing machine is running, at the start of the cycle and the scene that is supposed to run once when the cycle is done.

 

Regards

Ole

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Red box delay in seconds for that line actioning

[Ole 14]

I really appreciate all the feedback though it has been all about LUA, and if it proofs impossible to do it using block scenes I will try your suggestion TRicky. But has no-one tried to get this to work using block scenes and variables? 

[Ole 14]

I got my block scenes working! The only thing that was missing was a pause at the end of the script, preventing it from running several times within a short period of time.

[TRicky 84]

33 minutes ago, Ole said:

I got my block scenes working! The only thing that was missing was a pause at the end of the script, preventing it from running several times within a short period of time.

Congratulations!

 

I'm curious to the scene you made with Blocks.

 

Would you mind to share it?

 

TRicky

[Ole 14]

3 hours ago, TRicky said:

Congratulations!

 

I'm curious to the scene you made with Blocks.

 

Would you mind to share it?

 

TRicky

Sure! It is very much the same as I posted further up, but with the added pause at the end and 0 in the first condition block. As you can see you need to create a 0 or 1 variable in addition to the "started" and "finished" scenes. For the pause I needed I just used a room block that doesn't do anything other than to pause the scene. If there is a cleaner way to pause a scene, let me know.

 

 

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