[SOLVED]Scene - first time

[D4RK1 0]

Hi,

 

I think my problem isn´t covered in the tutorial, that is why I am asking here. I want to create a scene where the power supply to my media player devices is switched off for the night. But I want to check first if the devices are still running. That shouId be easily checked by looking at the power consumption.

 

I have tried the following:

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But now the power is always off, I think the schedule and the power are not handled as one trigger but as two, so the power is switched off if either it is after 22:00 on a weekday or the power consumption is lower than 10 W.

 

Did I get that right? And if yes, is it possible to realize what I want to do with Block Scenes?

 

Regards, Jens

[D4RK1 0]

Hi,

 

I found this post :

 

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and it seems to me as if my scene is ok the way it is. But why does the scene switch off my mediaplayer as soon as I run the scene (and it is not after 22:00)?

 

Any ideas?

[Jamie mccrostie 82]

50 minutes ago, D4RK1 said:

Hi,

 

I think my problem isn´t covered in the tutorial, that is why I am asking here. I want to create a scene where the power supply to my media player devices is switched off for the night. But I want to check first if the devices are still running. That shouId be easily checked by looking at the power consumption.

 

I have tried the following:

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But now the power is always off, I think the schedule and the power are not handled as one trigger but as two, so the power is switched off if either it is after 22:00 on a weekday or the power consumption is lower than 10 W.

 

Did I get that right? And if yes, is it possible to realize what I want to do with Block Scenes?

 

Regards, Jens

Have you tried 

if media player is on

and media player is less than 10 watts

then ...

[D4RK1 0]

hi, thank you for your reply...

 

I just tried this :

 

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and got the same result.. as soon as I start the scene, the wallplug (mediaplayer) is switched off.

 

[wienog 107]

4 minutes ago, D4RK1 said:

hi, thank you for your reply...

 

I just tried this :

 

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and got the same result.. as soon as I start the scene, the wallplug (mediaplayer) is switched off.

 

Time conditions and other conditions don't work well together in the same scene. First try to uncheck the mediaplayer as trigger for the scene. If that doesn't work then make a variable that is switched to "Yes" at 22:00 and "no" at for example 22:05. Then use the status of that variable in a second scene to check on the mediaplayer and switch it off. 

Don't really understand why you want to check if the mediaplayer is on, but I guess you have a reason for that.

[D4RK1 0]

Hi,

 

thank you for your reply, I added the "check if mediaplayer is on" because of the suggestion of Jamie in the first (well second, since I was the first to reply to my own post ^^) reply.

Ok, so I guess what I should do is pretty similar to what is explained in this post?:

 

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[wienog 107]

Exactly.

[D4RK1 0]

Ok, will do.

Reading through the "tutorial", I realized that it asks to assign the Scenes where the variable is set to day or night "to the suitable room". Is this really necessary? And what is the suitable room, since I do not want to switch off the power by hand, I chose to leave the device in the "unassigned" category (is this like a room?).

 

Edit: Seems to be working, thank you very much. Since the scenes as well as the device are assigned to the "unassigned" room I am not sure if that is necessary for them to work (to be assigned to the same room)? Could you please either confirm or deny? =)

Edited January 3, 2018 by D4RK1

[wienog 107]

16 hours ago, D4RK1 said:

Edit: Seems to be working, thank you very much. Since the scenes as well as the device are assigned to the "unassigned" room I am not sure if that is necessary for them to work (to be assigned to the same room)? Could you please either confirm or deny? =)

No it doesn't matter which room they are in. I put scenes in a certain room only when they are exclusively active in that one room, like "Switch the light off in John's bedroom" will be assigned to 'John's Bedroom'.

But many more scenes are assigned to 'pseudo-rooms' that I created like the 'room'  "Variables" where all the scenes are together that handle and change variables, or the 'room' "Roller Shutters" that contains all the scenes for the opening and closing of the twelve roller shutters in the house...

One more advice: try to limit the number of time-conditioned scenes because they run 24 hours a day and take a way resources from memory and the processors. Referring to the 22:00-variable in your example-code it will be wiser to make a scene that will execute 60 minutes after variable "22:00" has changed to 'Yes", rather than to create a new variable "23:00" at 23:00 because that new 23-scene will again run all day and consume resources, while the other solution will only take some extra resources during an hour (the sixty minutes between 22:00 and 23:00). That way, with some clever thinking you can use existing variables to trigger all kinds of unrelated scenes without the need to make an other resource-eating 'time-condition'.

Edited January 4, 2018 by wienog

[D4RK1 0]

Thank you very much, I will keep that in mind. For the future I am thinking about using motion sensors instead of timing and another idea is to implement some sort of status like "at home", "no one at home", "sleeping". But for that I will have to learn a bit more and acquire the necessary hardware. I´ve read that using several Fibaro Motion Sensors at once can create problems too?