Help On Setting up Scene

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Hello everyone! I’m new here and to Vera. I’m trying to set up what seems like to me should be a simple scene. Here is what I want to do:

A “Come Home” scene that does the following when activated:

Turn on HVAC.
If sunset (in other words – dark) turn on a set of lights. If not dark then don’t turn them on.

The part I am having problem with is the condition on the lights. While I can create a sunset scene and have it turn on the lights I don’t see how NOT do it when no one is home.

I read the Wiki pages on this that I could find, but all their examples did not cover this type of conditional logic.

Can anyone explain how that is done?

I feel real stupid about not being able to do that, particularly since I am a software developer, so you would think it should be easy to do, but there is some serious lack of documentation. Some of you mentioned a user manual. Is that the Wiki documentation or is there something else? All I got was a 4 page “Quick Start Guide”.

Rolf

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read the post a few down called:

Question for MCV: Luup/Lua?

To put it briefly, conditional logic requires writing code using LUA.

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It’s very simple LUA :slight_smile:

But keep in mind LUA version it’s still “under construction”, so if you’re willing to play with it don’t get upset with bugs…

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Okay, I’ll Look at LUA after it is officially released. I hope some simple conditionals can be added to the standard Vera interface using LUA in the background. In the mean time i solved my problem by creating two scenes, one for coming hope during daytime and another for nighttime.

Rolf