Time Based Scenes

[Guest puma]

I'm chasing some info on time based scenes. I have created a scene using my alarm sensors to trigger some lights however I want them to only happen at night say between 11pm & 5am.

 

How do I do that?

 

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Thanks

Edited August 15, 2020 by puma

[akatar 208]

@puma

You can create a variable, "righttime"

 

then 2 scenes

11 pm, righttime on

5 am rightime off

 

main scene

if sensor breach AND righttime is on, lights on etc

[Guest puma]

10 hours ago, akatar said:

@puma

You can create a variable, "righttime"

 

then 2 scenes

11 pm, righttime on

5 am rightime off

 

main scene

if sensor breach AND righttime is on, lights on etc

Thanks I know how to do this with block scenes as in create a variable then two other scenes one to turn it on another to turn it off, however was hoping to do this in lua so that I can incorporate it into the one scene. 

 

I'm trying to learn a bit more of lua I find it a little better than the block scenes.

[akatar 208]

I don't own a hc2, but i guess you can make the blockscene, translate in to lua and adjust it as you want?

[SmartHomeEddy 1,005]

BTW there is a great alarm scene for the HC2 over here:

 

"If you want some action before notifications are send and sounders activated then you add code to function extraUserCodeBreachFirst(). If you want some action to be executed after notifications are sent and sounders activated then you add code to function extraUserCodeBreachLast(). When sensor goes back to safe state scene is activated again. It will not send any messages but will stop sounders and if you want some more action then you can add code to function extraUserCodeSafe()."

 

I don't use a HC2, so you have to look for the small code "if time > 23:00 and time < 5:00 then" 

 

But you probably make that code yourself with a block scene and converting to Lua. 

 

And here is a lot of stuff concerning time and the HC2:

 

 

 

 

[Guest puma]

So ended up getting it to work with the help from jgab 

 

here is the code. The only thing that I wanted to maybe include was if the sensor was re triggered then it would reset the timer. I might play with it and see if I can get it to do that.

 

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[SmartHomeEddy 1,005]

Lots of examples on the forum for a simple loop to reset the timer. Look for “maxtime”. 

[Guest puma]

Thanks I have a bit of an understanding on how they work I have another scene that uses them.

 

The only difference with this one is that it uses an input from a VD rather than a device with an ID so I'm not 100% certain how to add it in.