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[Neo Andersson 230]

29 minutes ago, jgab said:

Yes, you can split up the rules. Besides creating more QA files it shouldn't have any real effect on memory usage.

 

There is a rule function

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that creates a global variable if it doesn't exist. 

The function returns true if the global was created and false if it existed.

So, you can do this

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It will create the variable if it doesn't exists, and if so also initialise it to someValue

If i save a boolean in global, should i use quotes or it doesnt matter

 

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3 minutes ago, Neo Andersson said:

If i save a boolean in global, should i use quotes or it doesnt matter

 

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sorry, getting this error for this rule

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sorry, getting this error for this rule

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[Pica2017 2]

On 11/23/2023 at 5:53 PM, jgab said:

 

Well, one way is to enable and disable rules with the functions er.enable() and er.disable()

If you declare the rules in a table, like this

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you end up with a table of rules, as the rule(...) function returns the rule object.

By default the rules are enabled, but you can use the function er.disable(ruleSet) 

to disable all the rule in the table directly after they are defined.

The advantage with this is that you can use enable and disable from within rules so you could have another 

rule that says 

rule("@10:00 => enable(ruleSet); wait(03:00); disable(ruleSet)")

in other words, enable the rules for a certain time during the day.

I have used this to enable special Holliday rules in the past, lightning etc. (there is something similar for ER4)

 

The other simple(r) approach is just the put the rules within an if-then-else

 

in main where you load the modules you set up a table with the "rule sets" you want to enable/disable 

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Then in the local main in the modules you have an extra parameter, config

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end

 

Hi Jan, trying to setup disable rules using rulesets as posted but getting this error

Runtime: ./include/builtins.lua:764: enable: not a rule enable

Also, trying to implement ruleset to be enabled when internet is up and disabled when down, is  #onlineEvent best for this? I can't seem to get a result from this for true or false?

[Pica2017 2]

sorry this one as well not working  for me, ok in ev4

rule("log('%s',listglobals())")

 

 DEBUG table: 0xaaaabe33c5d0

[jgab 2,641]

Sorry, I was sloppy. The assignment needs to be in parenthesis as '&' has higher priority than '='

So,

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Assignment to a fibaro global  translates the value to a string (fibaro globals can only store strings)

So

rule("$foo = false")

is the same as

rule("$foo = 'false'")

tables are json.encoded automatically so

rule("$foo = { a = 42, b = 77 }")

json.encodes the value before storing it in the global var.

It also automatically decodes the value when reading from a global variable

rule("t = $foo; log(t.a)")

or shorther

rule("log($foo.a)")

 

rule("$houseCheckTime = '23:30'") 

will store the string "23:30" in the variable.

rule("$houseCheckTime = 23:30") 

will store the number 23*3600+30*60 in the variable

 

 

[bonhomme 4]

Thanks @jgab

I had no chance of working that one out on my own 😅

I'll give your suggestion a try tomorrow but it sounds on the money. 

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15 minutes ago, Pica2017 said:

Hi Jan, trying to setup disable rules using rulesets as posted but getting this error

Runtime: ./include/builtins.lua:764: enable: not a rule enable

Also, trying to implement ruleset to be enabled when internet is up and disabled when down, is  #onlineEvent best for this? I can't seem to get a result from this for true or false?

 

This works

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so how do you do it?

 

The online event could work, but my feeling is it may take a while before it triggers.

[Neo Andersson 230]

@jgab Jan, i am probably blind, but i am stuck like an hour..why arent all the buttons shown in UI

 

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27 minutes ago, Neo Andersson said:

@jgab Jan, i am probably blind, but i am stuck like an hour..why arent all the buttons shown in UI

 

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It's difficult with screen dumps - can you post the header code as text? then I can test it also.

Do you get any warnings error when it starts up?

(bw, it's more a vscode thread than ER5)

1 minute ago, jgab said:

It's difficult with screen dumps - can you post the header code as text? then I can test it also.

Do you get any warnings error when it starts up?

(bw, it's more a vscode thread than ER5)

or post me the whole file so I can run it.

I can't see any strange in the dump but there can be strange chars or a space squeezed in...

[Neo Andersson 230]

7 minutes ago, jgab said:

It's difficult with screen dumps - can you post the header code as text? then I can test it also.

Do you get any warnings error when it starts up?

(bw, it's more a vscode thread than ER5)

or post me the whole file so I can run it.

I can't see any strange in the dump but there can be strange chars or a space squeezed in...

Okay, restart from VS code was not enough to update UI. Thats why it did not work. Had to reload the browser to see changes.

I should have start with this. OMG

Thanks

[Neo Andersson 230]

@jgab Jan, how to merge two tables in a rule

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41 minutes ago, Neo Andersson said:

@jgab Jan, how to merge two tables in a rule

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Well, there are some extra methods assigned to table.

you can do table.append({1,2,3},{4,5,6})

that just appends the lists so you get

{1,2,3,4,5,6}

There is also table.union({1,2,3},{4,5,6})

that "merges" the tables and removes duplicates, in this case you get the same {1,2,3,4,5,6}

So, 

rule("switches = table.union(group1,group2)")

would work for you.

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3 hours ago, Neo Andersson said:

Okay, restart from VS code was not enough to update UI. Thats why it did not work. Had to reload the browser to see changes.

I should have start with this. OMG

Thanks

Yes, if you change the UI layout you need to reload the web UI.

[Neo Andersson 230]

10 hours ago, Neo Andersson said:

@jgab Jan may i have two questions

 

1. How to detect in a rule, if global variable exists, and if not, create it with some default value ? Would this work????

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2. If i want to devide my code to multiple different files, and load them..

a) Does this have effect on general memory usage? / having more files means more memory consumption, or it is just dependent on the code in it itself

b) Can i even use something like this

 

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Jan, turned out, that I can not split my files as I described above..It complains  attempt to call a nil value (global 'rule') 

So i need to keep everything in one function that contains rule calls i think.

[jgab 2,641]

If you look at the main file there is a function

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wheee you define your rules.

The rule function (local rule) is defined as er.eval that is the function that does the job.

So if you want to define rules in other files you need to pass the er table to those files, so they can get the rule function.

 

We discussed it in this post

 

[Neo Andersson 230]

4 minutes ago, jgab said:

If you look at the main file there is a function

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wheee you define your rules.

The rule function (local rule) is defined as er.eval that is the function that does the job.

So if you want to define rules in other files you need to pass the er table to those files, so they can get the rule function.

 

We discussed it in this post

 

Jan, sorry, i forgot to mention, that after that error i realized what's the problemt, and i placed this line

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into every function where rules are accessed. After that it started to complain about er

so i stopped to try it further.

If you say, that it should work, i will try it tomorrow again, becuase my function that now loads my rules is like 1000 line long so i want to make some more transparent structure.

 

[bonhomme 4]

@jgab your suggestion worked, thank you!

 

Now, I'm trying to make that child device work - it is triggering OnAction events 'open' and 'closed' but the :isOpen and :isClosed rules are not getting triggered. What's the correct way to pick up those actions?

 

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gives

 

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Setting the last two rules to watch Blinds_Upstairs instead of Blinds_Upstairs_D doesn't generate any errors, but the open/close events don't trigger the rules.

 

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7 hours ago, bonhomme said:

@jgab your suggestion worked, thank you!

 

Now, I'm trying to make that child device work - it is triggering OnAction events 'open' and 'closed' but the :isOpen and :isClosed rules are not getting triggered. What's the correct way to pick up those actions?

 

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gives

 

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Setting the last two rules to watch Blinds_Upstairs instead of Blinds_Upstairs_D doesn't generate any errors, but the open/close events don't trigger the rules.

 

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Ok, the way it works in the last version of ER5 is that the Childs instance object is <name>_D and the Childs deviceId is <name>_ID

So either

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or

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That is why you can call the instance method with

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which also could have been done as

 

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Secondly, when you get 

[07.01.2024] [10:47:35] [ERROR] [QUICKAPP293]: Rule setup error(s) - fix & restart...

You will probably have had a log message with the console tag [ER293] also with a more informative error.

Per default, ER5 separate "system message" on tag ER<ID> and user messages on the normal QUICKAPP<ID>

So, select both in the console.

It that can be confusing (I admit that I sometimes forget. to look at the ER tag) ad you can get all logs on QUICKAPP<ID> if you comment out the line

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in the main file.

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9 hours ago, Neo Andersson said:

Jan, sorry, i forgot to mention, that after that error i realized what's the problemt, and i placed this line

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into every function where rules are accessed. After that it started to complain about er

so i stopped to try it further.

If you say, that it should work, i will try it tomorrow again, becuase my function that now loads my rules is like 1000 line long so i want to make some more transparent structure.

 

 

So, in the later ER5's in the main file there is already a setup for loading modules from other files. You may not have updated the main file so you haven't seen it.

It's in the :onInit() setup part and looks like

 

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The commented part is the instructions.

Ex.

create a QA file named u_myRules1

with the content

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you also need to make sure that you have the module loading code in main

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The prio thing is so that you can decide in what order the modules should load if they have dependencies on each other...

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19 hours ago, Pica2017 said:

sorry this one as well not working  for me, ok in ev4

rule("log('%s',listglobals())")

 

 DEBUG table: 0xaaaabe33c5d0

Yes, that's an interesting bug. I fixed it in the next version, but I have some more stuff to add before releasing the next version.

For now you need to encode it explicitly

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It is listglobals() that is problematic - most other tables will print out encoded automatically.

There is also a new constant in ER5, 'globals', that gives you a list of all the names of the globals

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