configure scene to be active only certain hours/days?

Developer's Corner Scene Scripting
#1

I have configured a few scenes I want to be only active at night - is this possible?

I know I can set schedules in a scene, but as far as I understand - that means a scene runs at day X and time Y - but that is not sufficient for my requirements because I have a few scenes with a PIR - and I want that the PIR only works between certain hours (I know I can create a scene to arm my PIR and to disarm my PIR - and configure the main scene to work only if the PIR is armed, but this is also not sufficient for my requirements).

any advice?

#2

Put this code in the scene’s Luup window:

if (luup.is_night()) then
return true
else
return false
end

The scene will then only run at night.

#3

See Conditional Scene Execution for an explanation and more examples of the technique @racarter suggested.