HC3 no motion for X time = lights off, how to?

[Pete123 3]

Hi,

 

How do you configure a scene that will turn on lights when motion and does not turn off until motion sensor has been safe for X time?

I am looking for both Lua and block options, if available.

Until now I have only found option for "delay" meaning lights will turn off after given time no matter if there has been motion during "delay" period.

 

Hope someone has found a solution for this.

[jgab 2,055]

22 minutes ago, cag014 said:

Yes

Currently there is a bug in that, should be fixed on next release.

All scenes debug info goes to same debug output and makes a huge mess.

 

...and why don't they then add a tag to the QuickApp's self:debug too?

I would prefer that they implemented logger.* that there seems to be left-overs of in the QuickApp environment and let the debug functions default to logger.info() or logger.log()

We also have logger.error() and logger.trace()...  and logger would tag the debugMessages accordingly...

 

...but now we our getting outside the topic of the thread.

Edited February 16, 2020 by jgab

[Guest rafal_ll]

W dniu 16.02.2020 o 13:22, jgab napisał:

 

This was a half-joke but it actually works. If you set "Allow to restart a running scene" to 'no' (similar to "if fibaro:countScenes() > 1 then fibaro:abort() end") 

you can code like this (almost like in the old days).

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In practice the fibaro.sleep loop should be changed to a setTimeout loop to adopt the new coding style imposed, because sleep is a bit heavy on the system...  - but that's left as an exercise to the reader.

The condition sections to trigger on motion sensor with id 32 being breached should be:

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Hello after the update has stopped working
I get the message "attempt to compare string with boolean"

 

 

[Tony270570 104]

hi @rafal_ll the old getvalue on motion /widows sensors/ returns now a bolean , try this:

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[jgab 2,055]

33 minutes ago, Tony270570 said:

hi @rafal_ll the old getvalue on motion /widows sensors/ returns now a bolean , try this:

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Yes, it's a moving target. With the support for fibaro.sleep the scene looks like this now.

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The conditions part looks the same.

[Tony270570 104]

ok, clear, thank you @jgab ! 

[robw 116]

10 hours ago, jgab said:

 

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The conditions part looks the same.

 

Thank you, @jgab!

 

I've been testing this scene, but the light always turns off after 5 seconds (probably due to the default setting of 5 seconds of the Parameter 6 "Motion detection - alarm cancellation delay" of the Fibaro Eye), but keeps counting to 60. Even if I do motion within 60 seconds it does not turn on.

[jgab 2,055]

8 minutes ago, robw said:

 

Thank you, @jgab!

 

I've been testing this scene, but the light always turns off after 5 seconds (probably due to the default setting of 5 seconds of the Parameter 6 "Motion detection - alarm cancellation delay" of the Fibaro Eye), but keeps counting to 60. Even if I do motion within 60 seconds it does not turn on.

 

-Have you set the scene's  "Allow to restart a running scene" to 'no' ?

-When it turns off after 5s is it the scene that does it? , Do you see the log output from fibaro.debug("","Turning off") ? If not you have another scene that turns it off - or an association?

--Try setting down 'sleepTime' to 3s

[robw 116]

4 minutes ago, jgab said:

 

-Have you set the scene's  "Allow to restart a running scene" to 'no' ?

-When it turns off after 5s is it the scene that does it? , Do you see the log output from fibaro.debug("","Turning off") ? If not you have another scene that turns it off - or an association?

--Try setting down 'sleepTime' to 3s

@jgab

Thank's! You have my permission to hit me in the head with a large cup of coffee!  My apologies, it was another scene that I forgot to turn off, that turned off the light. Everything is working now! Thank you again!

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Thank you everyone, works great

[SmartHomeEddy 878]

On 2/16/2020 at 1:22 PM, jgab said:

 

This was a half-joke but it actually works. If you set "Allow to restart a running scene" to 'no' (similar to "if fibaro:countScenes() > 1 then fibaro:abort() end") 

you can code like this (almost like in the old days).

...

 

Thanks jgab. Thanks to this kind of ideas I can make my HC2 to HC3 working again. 

 

(btw my HC3 doesn't like the single quotes, I had to use double quotes)

[jgab 2,055]

3 minutes ago, SmartHomeEddy said:

 

Thanks jgab. Thanks to this kind of ideas I can make my HC2 to HC3 working again. 

 

(btw my HC3 doesn't like the single quotes, I had to use double quotes)

Thanks, I fixed the single quotes in the original post. Sometimes when single quotes are copy and pasted they are transformed to `´quotes that don't work.

I like to use both double quotes and single quotes, trying to reserve single quotes for 'constant indicators' - but I guess I'm not always consequent.

[robw 116]

On 3/1/2020 at 7:32 AM, jgab said:

 

-Have you set the scene's  "Allow to restart a running scene" to 'no' ?

-When it turns off after 5s is it the scene that does it? , Do you see the log output from fibaro.debug("","Turning off") ? If not you have another scene that turns it off - or an association?

--Try setting down 'sleepTime' to 3s

 

Today these scenes just stopped working.

 

Edit: It was a variable crash. Everything is working now.

Edited March 3, 2020 by robw

[marius de jong 12]

I am getting an error and the scene does not work. Whath am i doing wrong.

[ERROR] 05.03.2020 20:27:54: (load):8: unexpected symbol near '<\226>'

[SmartHomeEddy 878]

Single quotes versus double quotes?

[motyk123 1]

W dniu 5.03.2020 o 20:29, marius de jong napisał:

I am getting an error and the scene does not work. Whath am i doing wrong.

[ERROR] 05.03.2020 20:27:54: (load):8: unexpected symbol near '<\226>'

 

I have this same error message.

 

EDIT:

Copy and paste this script and delete quotes and insert manually.

Works.

Edited March 9, 2020 by motyk123

[petergebruers 1,265]

On 3/5/2020 at 8:29 PM, marius de jong said:

[ERROR] 05.03.2020 20:27:54: (load):8: unexpected symbol near '<\226>'

 

16 minutes ago, motyk123 said:

 

I have this same error message.

 

 

Look at the last line of your scene - look carefully at the single quotes... See something strange? No? they are "angled" and that does not work, it causes "unexpected symbol near '<\226>'"

 

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So fix that line, instead write:

 

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EDIT: forgot to mention... There is onother one to fix on line 8, fibaro.call(light,'turnOn') - check all quotes

 

On 3/1/2020 at 7:20 AM, robw said:

Thank you, @jgab!

 

I've been testing this scene, but the light always turns off after 5 seconds (probably due to the default setting of 5 seconds of the Parameter 6 "Motion detection - alarm cancellation delay" of the Fibaro Eye), but keeps counting to 60. Even if I do motion within 60 seconds it does not turn on.

 

@robw the code with wrong kind of quotes is in your post because you've quoted a version with that error, can you please fix that? Jgab already fixed his version here...

 

 

 

 

Edited March 9, 2020 by petergebruers

[jimicr 89]

Hi guys, I edited the scene and runs for me (see code below).

I added check against lux, manual override and check if light is on or off all ready.

It runs like a charm but I think the pro's here can clean the code to make it better.

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Conditions only check the motion sensor:

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maybe this helps someone.

 

Jim 

Edited March 9, 2020 by jimicr
Found error in code (stupid one)

[robw 116]

2 hours ago, jimicr said:

Hi guys, I edited the scene and runs for me (see code below).

I added check against lux, manual override and check if light is on or off all ready.

It runs like a charm but I think the pro's here can clean the code to make it better.

 

maybe this helps someone.

 

Jim 

 

Thank's, Jim! Do you have a Hometable script for the HC3? Would you mind sharing it here?

 

Have a nice day!

Edited March 9, 2020 by robw

[jimicr 89]

@robw No problem:

 

You'll have to create the variable manual as standard variable.

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[robw 116]

2 minutes ago, jimicr said:

@robw No problem:

 

You'll have to create the variable manual as standard variable.

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Nice, thank's!