Tutorial: Single scene instance / Event model

[Sjakie 156]

Hi, what is wrong with this?

Mine Ical link is exactly the same but gives an error.

line 39 is the example google link

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[jgab 2,642]

1 hour ago, Sjakie said:

Hi, what is wrong with this?

Mine Ical link is exactly the same but gives an error.

line 39 is the example google link

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Your'e not supposed to change anything in iCal.lua. You should do a 'subscribe' from another ER scene for the calendar you want.

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[jgab 2,642]

New version of iCal.lua (B4)

 

-It will autocreate a VD to see the entries (combined from all subscribed calendars)

-New API

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days is number of days into the future the calendar should fetch, defaults to 30

tz is timezone offset in hours, defaults to 0

interval is the interval which the calendar should be fetched, defaults to "+/00:30", i.e. every 30min

 

Whenever a calendar event starts or stops the scene will get a callback of type. 

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An entry is a table of type

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This means that your sene doesn't have to remember anything, it just gets a call whenever a calendar event starts or ends. And you can match the event title or description to trigger further actions.

 

If you have the sceneID of the iCal scene you can send commands to it.

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Ex. Running commands stored in calendar description field:

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It checks a calendar entry description for a line of type "S:..." and then executes everything after 'S:' as a ER rule at start of event and  "E:.." for end events.

Ex.

description= "

S:kitchen.lamp:on

E:kitchen.lamp:off

"

will turn on the lamp at start of calendar event and turn off the lamp at end of calendar event.

Edited June 2, 2019 by jgab

[jompa68 121]

Will test tonight, first some shopping in Gekås 

[jompa68 121]

Some error when i try

ical.lua

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in other scene i have this

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i have setup an iCal calendar with name Test

[jompa68 121]

Got it now 

[jgab 2,642]

3 hours ago, jompa68 said:

Got it now 

 

So, how can we improve it? Better formatting of entries? New functionality?

[jompa68 121]

9 hours ago, jgab said:

 

So, how can we improve it? Better formatting of entries? New functionality?

I will test some setups tomorrow when back home again.

 

[jgab 2,642]

52 minutes ago, jompa68 said:

I will test some setups tomorrow when back home again.

 

New version of iCal.lua (B6)

Added an update button to VD.

More compact date format in VD.

Previous example with ER commands in description is updated (fixed parsing of new lines and description field containing ':')

 

[jompa68 121]

On 6/2/2019 at 9:35 AM, jgab said:

New version of iCal.lua (B6)

Added an update button to VD.

More compact date format in VD.

Previous example with ER commands in description is updated (fixed parsing of new lines and description field containing ':')

 

I would be nice to have option to decide date format for VD

for now i have change line 344 

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[Sjakie 156]

On 4/24/2019 at 8:52 PM, jgab said:

That happens if the scene is not started yet (EventRunner scenes starts with %%autostart or manual start). I would recommend that your EventRunner scenes have %%autostart - EventRunner scens are expected to run continuously. 

If you have device or globals triggers in the header of the scene (%%properties etc), the HC2 will try to start the scene even if it has not started. EventRunner detects that and logs a warning.

In your example, the scene receives triggers between 20:15:15 and 20:23:56 while it is not started yet. Then at 20:24:25 you start the scene, and it will start to process triggers...

 

In theory I could make ER scenes "autostart" when they get their first trigger but I like to have better control when to start them. Maybe an configurable option in the future.

So, in practice you can ignore the warnings - it's just that the scene is receiving triggers but has not been started up yet.

 

Hi Jan, is it possible to select auto start yes?no

I have 6 scenes to guard, control and light the house, in all kind of variants such as home, away, holiday >>>> I would like those on auto start, it happens a scene stops and then my system does not do what it should do.

Other scenes is not so important to discover they stopped.

Thanks for concideration

[jgab 2,642]

5 hours ago, jompa68 said:

I would be nice to have option to decide date format for VD

for now i have change line 344 

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Ok, now you can provide a format when you subscribe (pushed B7)

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It's not perfect as I try to collapse the day/month part if startDate and endDate is on the same day. It means that the day/date has to be in the beginning of the string. Have to think about something more flexible.

 

[jgab 2,642]

2 hours ago, Sjakie said:

Hi Jan, is it possible to select auto start yes?no

I have 6 scenes to guard, control and light the house, in all kind of variants such as home, away, holiday >>>> I would like those on auto start, it happens a scene stops and then my system does not do what it should do.

Other scenes is not so important to discover they stopped.

Thanks for concideration

 

Ok, you want to autostart if the scene has stopped but receives a trigger?

My thinking was that Supervisor would restart scenes that stopped working.

In general, if a scene stops/crashes, there is a problem that needs to be fixed... just restarting is seldom a good solution.

Anyway, there is variable '_STARTONTRIGGER' that you can set to true in the beginning of the scene

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and it will restart to scene instead of giving the message "Aborting: Server not started yet"... It is a bit experimental as I'm not using it myself and haven't tested it extensively.

 

[jompa68 121]

@jgab 

you see any errors in this rule? Dont give me any log back when an event starts.

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[Sjakie 156]

Jan I fully agree with your statement solve the error

If scene has stops no indication?? Where to look?

Supervisor only tells me that there is no answer from scene ....

Any push in the right direction?

I will not auto start now but it should be nice to solve or do if we go on holiday.

Thanks for the support

 

[Sjakie 156]

Hello Jan,

If I use

             rule("dwSensorsHouse={hal.tussendeur, eetkamer.deur, serre.deur}")  
should all of these components be mentioned in header as value??

Please advice

[jompa68 121]

1 hour ago, jompa68 said:

@jgab 

you see any errors in this rule? Dont give me any log back when an event starts.

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Solved, was wrong setup of subscribe rule. Below is the right code to use.

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[jgab 2,642]

1 hour ago, Sjakie said:

Hello Jan,

If I use

             rule("dwSensorsHouse={hal.tussendeur, eetkamer.deur, serre.deur}")  
should all of these components be mentioned in header as value??

Please advice

 

Yes, they need to be declared in the header  to trigger the rule

[jompa68 121]

On 6/1/2019 at 11:19 PM, jgab said:

 

So, how can we improve it? Better formatting of entries? New functionality?

Can i use wildcards to have 1 line instead of 2?

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[jgab 2,642]

1 hour ago, jompa68 said:

Can i use wildcards to have 1 line instead of 2?

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entry is always a Lua table {name=<string name>, startDate=<epoch>, endDate=<epoch>, description=<string descriptions>}

What you can do is

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I pushed a new version of ER (B56) where 'match' is a builtin ER command. Note that arguments are 'match(<pattern>,<string>)'

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or, more generally?

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Edited June 4, 2019 by jgab