Tutorial: Single scene instance / Event model

[Angelus 0]

25 minutes ago, Sjakie said:

if you want I can send in pm something I use for curtains but I have used something similar also for blinds

 

@Sjakie yes please! thank you so much in advance

[Sjakie 135]

This works as a charm for myIPhone.

for Iphone this works great

Home:

Rule.eval([[#location{id=20,property=219,value='enter'} => 

    $Locatie_Sjaak = 'Thuis';

        log('#C:aqua#  $Locatie_Sjaak is - Thuis');

        fibaro.call(1209, "sendMessage", "302 - Let Op: Sjaak is Thuis",817111904)

]]).start()

Away:

Rule.eval([[#location{id=20,property=219,value='leave'} => 

    $Locatie_Sjaak = 'Vertrokken'; 

        log('#C:aqua#GV $Locatie_Sjaak - Vertrokken');

        fibaro.alert('push', user, '302 -Let Op: Sjaak20 vertrokken')

]]).start()

[Angelus 0]

12 minutes ago, jgab said:

Well, profile as not very well managed in ER4.

You need to get the id of the Home profile and then compare that id to the active profile's id. Like this

 

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ah ok thanks. that seems simple enough.  I do have scenes that run tests on motion sensors to determine profiles such as Home/Away/Vacation etc so I guess I can use ER to trigger those scenes

 

Any suggestions on how i can use Weather to trigger blinds while i trouble @Sjakie to show me his examples?   

[Sjakie 135]

this what I use, don't forget to create Global Variables.

--https://openweathermap.org/weather-conditions

 

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19 minutes ago, Angelus said:

ah ok thanks. that seems simple enough.  I do have scenes that run tests on motion sensors to determine profiles such as Home/Away/Vacation etc so I guess I can use ER to trigger those scenes

 

Any suggestions on how i can use Weather to trigger blinds while i trouble @Sjakie to show me his examples?   

Well, ER4 doesn't have anything special for weather but it can react on system weather events.

rule("#weather{property=<prop>, value=<newValue>, old=<oldValue>} => ....")

What you can do is setup some trigger variables for some of the weather data you are interested in.

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Edited November 1, 2023 by jgab

[fastvd 7]

18 hours ago, jgab said:

 

Try to make a api.post('/service/reboot',{recovery=false}) outside the rule somewhere in main() and see if it works.

ER just translates it to a standard Lua api.post('/service/reboot',{recovery=false}) and calls it.

it's dont  work anywhere

Edited November 1, 2023 by fastvd

[jgab 1,983]

12 minutes ago, fastvd said:

it's dont  work anywhere

Then it's not ER's fault

 

I know that there has been discussions about api reboot and shutdown have had issues - have a search in the forum...

[fastvd 7]

10 hours ago, jgab said:

Then it's not ER's fault

 

I know that there has been discussions about api reboot and shutdown have had issues - have a search in the forum...

thanks...i found lua command for this:

fibaro.homeCenter.systemService.reboot() 

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6 hours ago, fastvd said:

thanks...i found lua command for this:

fibaro.homeCenter.systemService.reboot() 

but that's not available from QuickApps ?

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4 hours ago, jgab said:

but that's not available from QuickApps ?

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Yes, that function is not available from QuickApps for some strange reason - only Scenes. Maybe Fibaro will add it to QuickApps in the future...

[Neo Andersson 149]

@jgab

Hello Jan

Can we construct complex variables using rules? Can we uise rules for defining table type variables?

 

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12 hours ago, Neo Andersson said:

@jgab

Hello Jan

Can we construct complex variables using rules? Can we uise rules for defining table type variables?

 

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Well, you can only have complex key-value tables where the key is a symbol - which means that you can't have a number as the key. (array table {'a','b','c'} has implicit number keys)

 

rule("remoteButtonToBlinds = { office_remote_controller = { key3 = office_blinds1, key4 = office_blinds2}, livingroom_remote_controller = {key1 = livingroom_blinds1, key2 = livingroom_blinds2}}")

works, so construct a symbol index to address the table

rule(" ...  remoteButtonToBlinds[controller]['key'++keyId] ... ")

 

In Lua in general it is usually not a good idea to have complex tables with numbers as key, because you have in effect created a table with holes in them (for entries with no index)

Your remoteButtonToBlinds table will end up as  { [1]=nil, [2] = nil, [3] = office_blinds1, [4] = office_blinds2} in Lua

The problem one can encounter is that we can't json encode the tables (json don't allow sparse arrays), and we can't loop over the tables with something like for _,e in ipairs(<table>) do ...

 

...but I understand your need and I have created those tables myself. See if you can use the 'key'+ trick above.

 

In ER5 I allow expression as keys like Lua does...  

[Neo Andersson 149]

6 hours ago, jgab said:

Well, you can only have complex key-value tables where the key is a symbol - which means that you can't have a number as the key. (array table {'a','b','c'} has implicit number keys)

 

rule("remoteButtonToBlinds = { office_remote_controller = { key3 = office_blinds1, key4 = office_blinds2}, livingroom_remote_controller = {key1 = livingroom_blinds1, key2 = livingroom_blinds2}}")

works, so construct a symbol index to address the table

rule(" ...  remoteButtonToBlinds[controller]['key'++keyId] ... ")

 

In Lua in general it is usually not a good idea to have complex tables with numbers as key, because you have in effect created a table with holes in them (for entries with no index)

Your remoteButtonToBlinds table will end up as  { [1]=nil, [2] = nil, [3] = office_blinds1, [4] = office_blinds2} in Lua

The problem one can encounter is that we can't json encode the tables (json don't allow sparse arrays), and we can't loop over the tables with something like for _,e in ipairs(<table>) do ...

 

...but I understand your need and I have created those tables myself. See if you can use the 'key'+ trick above.

 

In ER5 I allow expression as keys like Lua does...  

Jan i have tried your suggestion

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but it still throws the same error, table index is nil

[jgab 1,983]

You'd couldn't use the computed index so take away the brackets and use a precomputed key (no 'ctrl'++...)

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1 hour ago, Neo Andersson said:

Jan i have tried your suggestion

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but it still throws the same error, table index is nil

 

...or you build the table in Lua.

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This assumes that you already declared the office_remote_controller, office_blinds1 etc. with rules or Util.defvars so that they are visible in ER rules. The EV function fetches the declared ER variables.

 

 

Then you can have easier rules I guess...

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[Neo Andersson 149]

33 minutes ago, jgab said:

 

...or you build the table in Lua.

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This assumes that you already declared the office_remote_controller, office_blinds1 etc. with rules or Util.defvars so that they are visible in ER rules. The EV function fetches the declared ER variables.

 

 

Then you can have easier rules I guess...

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Edited November 8, 2023 by Neo Andersson

[Neo Andersson 149]

@jgab Hello Jan

What is the best way to add 14 day to a given date (using rules)

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Edited November 9, 2023 by Neo Andersson

[Neo Andersson 149]

@jgab Hello Jan. The IF THEN END pattern for rule is || <condition> >> <action>. But how to append the ELSE logic? || <condition> >> <action1> else???? <action2>

What is the syntax?

thanks

[jgab 1,983]

Well, the ||>> is already an if-then-else

 

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...etc

 

Note, no ';' after last expression in then-do-this