Cookbook / Howto?

Plugins & Plugin Development Program Logic (PLEG)
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Finally got latest firmware and my Aeon multi sensor going. Was going to try to hack some code to handle motion and darkness to trigger lights for a certain amount of time. Then saw this whole area that I was not aware of! Looks like it should be a breeze with one of the plugins. However I have been digging through a ton of posts for quite sometime now and am getting nowhere. I see lots of ‘do this’ and ‘almost there’ etc… and finally… ‘its working’ . (Have not seen, ‘this is what I did’ as a wrap up) Then again, I may have missed something.

Trying to thread through what was actually done is not an easy task. I jumped over to the wiki but didn’t find anything on this subject

Is there somewhere that has some simple step by step walk throughs on what do to and where so I can get up to speed?

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Okay, so I am feeling my way around a bit better… I just realized that I needed to install more than just one of the logic plug ins… duh… its nice to feel like a newb again ;D

Now the inputs are actually showing and things are making more sense.

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Sorry, Les, I don’t have a PLxx cookbook. The process is straightforward, though;

  1. Define your inputs (Triggers, Schedules, Properties) and give them meaningful names. It sounds like you have started this.

  2. Define the conditions in terms of the inputs (A and B) or (B and C) etc. Time sequences are powerful but need thought!

  3. Define actions to be performed when conditions become true. Conditions don’t have to have actions but actions need conditions.

  4. Test, scratch your head, tweak the expressions and try again. ;D

If you get stuck, post the output of PLxx’s Report - along with what you want it to do, Happy hacking. :slight_smile:

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Thanks… once I realized that I needed to install all the pieces, things got a lot better and started to make more sense. I was fumbling around earlier without all the pieces necessary. No wonder it wasn’t making sense! :smiley: Much better!