Nested Conditions in scenes

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This may be a follow-on to the previous post about moving from one scene to another, but I’ve got a particular problem that the UI does not seem to have a solution for.

We have a cabin on the mountain. When I’m not there I run the “Away” scene, and it sets the thermostats to a low level (or off). When I’m there, I run the “Home” scene and it sets the thermostats to some cozy temp.

However, the Wayne-Dalton thermostats I have (which, by the way, work very well) do not have setback functions, and even if they did I’d want to do the setback through Vera. So at 10PM, I want to reduce the heating set temp on the thermostats, and at 7:30AM I want to increase it.

BUT, I only want to have this happen when the “Home” scene is active. The problem being, of course, that the scenes as they are currently defined would do this while I’m “Away”, not just when I’m “Home”. Timers don’t help as they trigger the entire scene.

How can I get this to happen? Do I need to do something special with the JSON directly?

Any ideas appreciated. So far I’m loving this neat little unit.

Randy

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Good question, i have the same use and thermostats… Hope someone answers your question with a solution. 8)

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The only way at the moment it will be to Create the desired scene, attach an Timer to it, and when you’re at home activate the timer and when you leave de-activate it. This has to be done manually at the moment from Setup->Scenes.
Later after we introduce the Lua plugin you’ll be able to create complex scenes.

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Any timetable you’d care to state regarding the availability of the LUA? A lot of posts relate to using this capability, but I haven’t seen anything concrete.

Randy S

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I had the same issue so I wrote my own application for dealing with this, squeezedVeraScenes: [url=http://www.mats-gustafsson.se/sqv_sqvs/]http://www.mats-gustafsson.se/sqv_sqvs/[/url]
squeezedVeraScenes do not require any Squeezebox.