Device Property usage

Plugins & Plugin Development Program Logic (PLEG)
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Whoa there, cowboy. Don’t delete stuff just yet. It is unlikely to fix the problem.

If all your three PLxx plugins are at the same revision (4.4) as shown in APPS then leave them be. I suspect the red-flag on NOT may be a bug in the editor. If there was really a problem with the expression, it would throw an error when you click SAVE.

Can you post a report and describe what is or isn’t happening?

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All are at 4.4 as you say. There is no error flagged on Save, however I note that my bedroom heater is running, (the heat transfer is not plugged in yet) so it seems that maybe the logic is working. I just tested the motion/light code as well, also containing red NOT’s and that is working fine, so I think the editor is giving a (red!) herring. I still can’t get the status report though, although the normal report works fine and is attached in case of interest. Appreciate all the help I’m getting.

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I’m sure @RichardTSchaefer will be able to figure-out why the status report isn’t working. Meanwhile, do you have another browser installed that you could try? FYI: RTS uses Google Chrome so his stuff usually works best on that.

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The report problem probably means I had an exception generating the report.
This is code that runs in the browser … and does not effect the code that runs in Vera that actually evaluates and runs conditions.

You can help me determine the problem if you can use Google Chrome to run Vera and do the following:

[ul][li]Open the PLEG Control by clicking on the Wrench[/li]
[li]While the mouse is hovering over that window type the following at the same time:
Control Shift I
This will open up a browser debug window.[/li]
[li]Click the Console tab at the top.[/li]
[li]Now Click the Status button for the PLEG.[/li]
[li]Send me the output in the console window[/li][/ul]

As @RexBeckett indicated there is rarely a need to uninstall/re-install the PL Plugins and/or delete/recreate your PL devices.

If I have a bug caused by your set of conditions, then re-entering them into a new device and/or after re-installing the PL plugins will likely give the same results.

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Thanks Richard, all is working well. Just one query, what determines how often or when the bedroom Aircon temperature is checked? On the odd occasion that I have woken up, I have noticed that the bedroom heater is either off or on, and this ties up with the actual temperature at the time. However, it seems to have a large amount of hysteresis - in other words, it takes a long time before Vera has realized that the temperature has risen or dropped before the logic in PLEG triggers. So, there are times at night where the bedroom temperature plummets, then the heater comes back on as it should. Similarly, right now the temperature has reached 21 before the heater turned off. I suspect it’s the “polling” of the temperature sensor, and that this is happening too slowly, so the question is is there a way to make it check, say, every 15 minutes? Many thanks, Rob

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The PL plugins do not poll.
Vera calls me anytime it detects that the temperature has changed.

Vera might be polling the Sensor … I do not know what type of Sensor you have.
You should look into the details of the sensor.