Assistance with weather and UI7

Developer's Corner Scene Scripting
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Need help in knowing if it is possible to have a notification sent (or more) out when the low temp hits a certain threshold. My pipes freeze and want to eventually have heat in a certain part of the house when the temp goes down.

I installed Wunderground Weather Plugin. This gives me the device World Weather and Forecast.1.LowTemperature (or Low Temp Device).

I want to get a notification where if the projected weather drops below a certain temp an action happens after a certain period of time… Just to start off, I want to be notified for that action.

I have created a scene where there are two triggers.

  1. (Device trigger Temp is below (val)
  2. Scheduled Trigger everyday at time
    This scene finishes with notify (user)

What is happening is that the notification occurs everyday and it does not seem to be validating against the LowTemp. I have modified the val for temp in case this was a F or C difference. That had no affect.

Any help would be great.

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Scenes are triggered by the OR of the inputs.

In your case at the specified Time OR low temperature.

If you want AND … you need to use condition logic in LUA
see:
http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,18679.0.html

or the PLEG plugin witch allows all types of boolean logic and much more:

http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,21603.0.html

3

Thanks for the response. I sort of solved it by way of the flow. It was actually my misunderstanding in how a notification worked. Everything was functioning as it should have (running at the time and checking the temp) but a notification was being sent every time the scene ran and was not running based on the conditions of the triggers. I ended up using virtual switch that would notify me if triggered and used the previous scene to flip that switch (that switch would in turn notify me).

Thanks for the info though… I am going to look into that.