Doorbird IR Light LUA scene

[jsauser11 4]

I could use some help creating a LUA scene for the IR Light on the Doorbird D10 doorbell.

My problem is that since the Doorbird uses a light sensor to toggle the IR lights on when the area is dark and there is a streetlamp in the field of view of the camera, the IR Light never comes on at night.

I have included the QA for the doorbird IR light, but the Doorbird toggles back to the sensor after 3 minutes, so my captured video at night is very poor.

I have attached a flow chart of what I am trying to accomplish with the LUA to trigger the IR Light on at sunset, and after delaying 180 seconds, test to see if a user created enumerated variable (LUX) is equal to 'Night'. If it is, then I want to loop back to the hub.call (line 1 of the ACTIONS). If the variable (LUX) is not equal to 'Night', then end the scene. Here is the code I have so far, but I am sure it is very wrong for doing the loop back.

 

hub.call(552, 'turnOn')

hub.setTimeout(180000, function()

hub.getGlobalVariable('LUX')

if 'LUX' == 'Night' then

goto 1

else

end)

 

If anyone can help me with this, it sure would be great.

Thanks.

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[Łukasz997 117]

I will try to help. It's not necessary to use global variable. Cancel any process which update it (if you have one).
I assume that this is a scene triggered by "after sunset" condition.
To be honest the trigger should be dawn and dusk (dark time). But it need to create user own function to compute the proper time. But for simplicity, let's stay with sunset and sunrise - to be more precise in function IsAfterDarkNow(afterSet, beforeRise) you can set parameters.
This task needs some programming skills and understanding how scenes in HC works. Try this code. It's not tested by me, should work, no warranty

 

You will see what's happening reading the messages on the www console. If OK, you can remove it later.

It's a scene code and - again - I assume that this is executed every sunset (by setting proper trigger in scene).

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Edited June 6, 2025 by Łukasz997

[Łukasz997 117]

Good morning, does it resolve your problem? Any feedback?