Can’t seem to find a way to hide devices or scenes. Was able to in UI2.
Can’t seem to be able to select which way to be notified of an event. Used to be able to select email, SMS or both in UI2. Now it’s just notiy user.
Hoping for some additions to programming, something along the lines of if, and, or, not ( boolean logic ). So the events like:
If front light are on and time is between 7am and 7pm then turn front lights off.
or
Arm windows / door sensors between hours of 7am and 7pm and 11pm - 6am M-F, at other times disarm unless scene controller button #3 is active then arm regardless of time, day.
Yes, UI4 is different.
You can’t hide devices or scenes. Unfortunately. Many of us manage this by putting them in rooms we don’t need to look at frequently. Like the “Devices I never want to see” room. Then minimize the room in the UI.
You manage how you want to be notified in your user account in the MIOS page before you go to the dashboard view.
We all want conditional logic, but it’s still not implemented. Lots of things you can do with simple Luup code so you can search the forum for lots of examples.
Your concerns are valid, and have been discussed (and in some cases debated) before as people made the switch to UI4 after its release.
I too miss the ability to “hide” devices on the dashboard, but have gotten used to the new way of doing things with UI4 and don’t mind it that much. My best advise is to move the devices you want hidden to a room (or to “Global”) and then minimize that location (+/- icon in the upper left).
Notifications are working well for me at a scene and device level, but I only use email notifications.
Unfortunately the logic you are looking for still must be done (for the most part) with LUUP code. Much of what you are after is fairly straightforward to code, it just requires a little familiarization. In many cases the difficult part of the coding work has already been done. In the example of your daytime front light scene, you can simply create a scene that runs periodically via timer, and turns off the front light. Then add this code to the LUUP tab:
if ( luup.is_night() ) then
return false
else
return true
end
This doesn’t use 7a-7p strictly, but does check your local sunset/sunrise times to see if Vera thinks it is “nighttime” or not. A simpler version of this is most commonly used be people that want things to happen only at night, but the above code will make sure that your lights are turned off only when it is daytime.
I hope this helps.
Since the simplified Boolean logic is not available within VERA and LUUP snippets is the way forward, it would make sense to have a simple folder and/or library that non-LUUP users could draw functions/capabilities from and perform minor tailoring on, rather than surfing the forum or worst WIKI and trying to data mine simple “if then else” capabilities. The logical place would have been on the MIOS Market place but I’ve not seen much change in new/updated plugins, a LUUP section would be nice… any thoughts Mike