Alarm state event controlled scenes

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It seams like I cant create scenes based on events from alarm partition state.
For example:
I would like to create scene to turn some lights off and other on when I arm the system in away mode. I also would like to turn temperature down in this alarm state. I can create scene and run it manually then all works fine. However when i arm the alarm system it doesn’t work at all. Vera does see and updates the alarm state on UI4 screen as it suppose to but dose not trigger scenes that i create.
Can you help please.

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Hi canadian,

More information please. Which alarm system? What version of the plugin? What (exactly) are you using for the scene trigger?

Edit: The kind of thing you are doing is supposed to work, but it has to be implemented separately in each plugin. It works on my Caddx alarm plugin, for instance, but if you’re using a different alarm system then it depends on what that plugin’s capabilities are.

Edit: Also please tell us what your hardware is (Vera2, Vera3, something else) and what version of firmware you are on.

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I am using DSC alarm system model PC1864. It is communicating with vera via IT 100 - WizNet RS232 to RJ45. Communication works fine as i get updates all the time in real time. What i want to do is when partition 1 changes state from disarm to away arm and its night to turn off all lights except porch light. I don’t know what version of plugin I am running. Where do I see that?

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Ok, so it’s now down to the question: does the DSC plugin notify on state changes, and are you using the feature properly? I would think that it does, so you need to eliminate these possibilities:

  1. Is the version of firmware you are using interfering? You haven’t said if you are on UI4 or UI5. There are many older versions of UI5 that are dodgy with respect to events. What are you running?
  2. There are several notifications available. They may have names like “Armed state” or “Armed detailed State”. Which one are you using? What value are you testing for? See my screenshot for a UI5 example.
  3. Now it gets plugin-specific, and since I don’t have a DSC alarm you will need to find someone here who does. Is this feature supposed to work for the DSC Alarm plugin?
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I am using UI4. The plugin does change the status on dashboard any time i arm or disarm the system I tried all system states that are there and still nothing. I also tried creating scene where system is armed if i turn on a light and that works fine. What iy seams its not working is vera not reading the alarm state from the dsc panel properly but only for triggering events. it does show on the dashboard properly.