Tutorial: Single scene instance / Event model

[Momos 101]

Yes but my feeling is that somehow Fibaro cloud is causing these issues from time to time, they are not local.  I have no idea if thats even possible, it is just a hunch.

[kubo 0]

I set up rule that send me email every time Event runner 4 QA is starting and I got email every hour at 28 minute. Then i add another "clean" EV4 QA, to be sure that restart is not caused by my bad written rule, but another one QA do the same. Is anybody else having this problem, or i have to reset whole HC?

[Momos 101]

Mine does not do that. I am on version Fix67.

First i would check if there is any rule that triggers the restart. Disable all the rules and see if it still does that.  Then reboot if it still does.

[Momos 101]

Now, thinking about it, is there a way to turn off/on all the rules in a QA of ER4 ?  

 

There are those 4 buttons which to be honest i never looked at what they do ?

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Trigger : displays all triggers 

Post: does not seem to do anything .  What is it supposed to do ?

Rule: not sure what it does also as no matter if i set it on ON or OFF rules still work   Seems to be about displaying all (true or false) or only true.

Restart: does a restart.

 

So excuse my noobish question, what are POST and RULE supposed to do ? 

 

Cheers  

 

Edited July 15, 2021 by Momos

[Sjakie 135]

Fellow ER 4 users.

Fibaro showed me yesterday evening  in the cloud a red sign! I did not pay attention on it because you mention it it can be.

I dont know but as long as HC3 is on (on-off line it doest matter) QA's are running.

ER4 is much better than Fibaro so its easy error>>Fibaro.

If you write much worse rules as me than you will see after restart an error in debug, mostly.

I use to get info about restarting  QA's:

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At this moment I prefere Telegram option because its always functioning, push messages not.

//Sjakie

 

[jgab 1,950]

33 minutes ago, Momos said:

Now, thinking about it, is there a way to turn off/on all the rules in a QA of ER4 ?  

 

There are those 4 buttons which to be honest i never looked at what they do ?

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Trigger : displays all triggers 

Post: does not seem to do anything .  What is it supposed to do ?

Rule: not sure what it does also as no matter if i set it on ON or OFF rules still work   Seems to be about displaying all (true or false) or only true.

Restart: does a restart.

 

So excuse my noobish question, what are POST and RULE supposed to do ? 

 

Cheers  

 

It's old code that toggle the debugflags

_debugFlags.trigger = true -- log incoming triggers
_debugFlags.post = true    -- log internal posts
_debugFlags.rule=true      -- log rules being invoked (true or false)

[Sjakie 135]

Jan,

We where a few days away from home.

The first evening our complex disarmed because somebody at home according IOS. Wierd me,(user and admin) and my wife left physically.

Now we are back home and I see that my wife is still away. So I modified the rule that also her device will be in log if location change.

//Sjakie

[Momos 101]

5 hours ago, jgab said:

It's old code that toggle the debugflags

_debugFlags.trigger = true -- log incoming triggers
_debugFlags.post = true    -- log internal posts
_debugFlags.rule=true      -- log rules being invoked (true or false)

 

Ah that one about internal post i did not figure . ?

 

But stil, is there a clean way of turning off all the rules in a QA ?  Example: i have an AC QA - thats all it does, control some AC units.  But when i leave home for 2-3 days i would like to just turn off the rules in the QA so AC doesnt start for nothing. Now i go into edit mode and commebt each rule ?

 

Possible ?

[Sjakie 135]

@Momos use atHome with rules or away with rules.

//Sjakie

[jgab 1,950]

11 hours ago, Momos said:

 

Ah that one about internal post i did not figure . ?

 

But stil, is there a clean way of turning off all the rules in a QA ?  Example: i have an AC QA - thats all it does, control some AC units.  But when i leave home for 2-3 days i would like to just turn off the rules in the QA so AC doesnt start for nothing. Now i go into edit mode and commebt each rule ?

 

Possible ?

Well, you can disable the QA in the WebUI but of course that may be too "manual" and there is no way the QA can enable itself... However, another QA could enable/disable the QA.

 

Another approach is that you can enable/disable individual rules

Ex.

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The rule function returns a reference to the rule that can be used as an argument to enable() and disable()

The reference also has functions for enable/disable/print/start that we can use directly

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So enable(ref) is just a function that calls .disable() on the ref.

The advantage with enable(ref) is that it can also take a list of rule references.

If we declare our rules inside a list we can use that list to enable and disable sets of rules

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We start the rules disabled by calling .disable() on the ref we get back from rule(...).

.disable() returns the ref again so we can chain the commands. Try rule("@@00:00:02 => log('Ding')").disable().print()  ....

 

We can also create sections of rules

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This looks cleaner than collecting them in a list. You can create multiple sections and enable/disable them individually.

Edited July 16, 2021 by jgab

[Sjakie 135]

Jan,

Normal this rule will post restart +00:00:05 or 8 second

why it also starts 5 & 8 sec after midnight?

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[jgab 1,950]

38 minutes ago, Sjakie said:

Jan,

Normal this rule will post restart +00:00:05 or 8 second

why it also starts 5 & 8 sec after midnight?

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//Sjakie

I see a Rule:2 that starts 5s after midnight and a Rule:23 that starts 8s after midnight.

 

'now' is always the current time. All @rules recalculate their time for the coming day at midnight so it will be 0+5 and 0+8, because 'now' is 0 at midnight.

If you only want it to run at start/restart don't make it a rule (no =>)

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Edited July 17, 2021 by jgab

[kubo 0]

On 7/13/2021 at 7:18 AM, jgab said:

Not sure what you want. Fibaro globals are accessible with the name prefixed by '$'

ex.

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Hi jan,

please can you check if creating global variable works fine? if i create global variable manually then it is accessible in ER4 by '$', but when i want to create some it do nothing.

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$MyVar is always nil.

 

I updated to new HC3 version (5.072.14 (beta)) and ER4 don't restart anymore.

[jgab 1,950]

4 hours ago, kubo said:

Hi jan,

please can you check if creating global variable works fine? if i create global variable manually then it is accessible in ER4 by '$', but when i want to create some it do nothing.

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$MyVar is always nil.

 

I updated to new HC3 version (5.072.14 (beta)) and ER4 don't restart anymore.

Fibaro globals always need to be created manually before used. They will not be autocreated. 

 

Btw, there are some ER functions to deal with Fibaro globals

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quickAppVariables ($$) are autocreated as that is the way fibaro.setVariable work

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Edited July 17, 2021 by jgab

[jgab 1,950]

Problem with v0.5fix68 that's been out for an hour. If you upgraded it will crash. I have fixed it now so upgrades should work again.

If the QA crash go into the QA files and the file "Toolbox" and line 694 and change

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[jgab 1,950]

Ok, v0.5fix68 should work now.

There has been a long time "bug" that disabled some error checks in ER4, and they are enabled now.

Be prepared that you may see more error logs.

In particular it's setTimeout/setInterval/net.HTTPClient that will report an error if the callbacks/functions provided throws an error.

On the HC3 this is normally silent but it will show up now. 

In the emulator these errors has always been reported.

[ChristianSogaard 59]

Hi @jgab

 

any idea why my alarm started failing? i didnt change anything for months in this section?

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[jgab 1,950]

5 hours ago, ChristianSogaard said:

Hi @jgab

 

any idea why my alarm started failing? i didnt change anything for months in this section?

 

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This expression is strange

post(#Armed from Matrix as Keypad);

It's not a valid event name - spaces not allowed.

Either

post(#Armed_from_Matrix_as_Keypad);

or

post(#ArmedFromMatrixAsKeypad);

or did you mean

post(#Armed); -- from Matrix as Keypad

or did you mean

log('#Armed from Matrix as Keypad');

?

[Sjakie 135]

Jan I have thsi error:

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Please advice,

//Sjakie

[jgab 1,950]

1 hour ago, Sjakie said:

Jan I have thsi error:

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Please advice,

//Sjakie

Can you post the whole rule20?