No Actions in the drop-down???

Plugins & Plugin Development Program Logic (PLEG)
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Hi All,

I’m pulling my hair out and could do with a bit of help pls.

I’m new to my Vera edge and have decided to skip scenes and go straight to the Programme Logic plugins.
However, I can’t complete my first piece of logic as nothing is showing the the “actions” drop down. I’ve got as far as doing a complete factory restore and re-installing PLEG, but nothing is working (so I think it could be user error).

What am I doing wrong??? I’d love to know as I’m not sure where to turn next?!?.. Here’s my logic:

Between sunset and and midnight, I want it to turn on a z-wave plug powering the fairly lights on the front of the house.

Here’s what i’ve done:

  • The z-wave plug is setup as a device and I can control it via an on / off device switch with no issues.
  • I’ve created a new PLEG device
  • I’ve created a new schedule “s1_is_it_dark” it run from Mon to Sun, from sunset to 23:59
  • I’ve created a basic condition of “c1_is_dark”, which I assume will trigger whenever the above schedule is true

I then thought the final step would be to select the z-wave plug as an action in the dropdown in the actions tab, but there is nothing there??? It’s just an empty drop-down list… Have I missed something as I don’t know what to do now??? I thought it might be the plug that wasn’t working, so I have also tried creating a virtual switch, but that isn’t showing as an action either.

Any help would be hugely appreciated…

Thanks in advance

Casper.

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Sounds like you started just fine!
It’s always best to attach a PDF of the output of the Status command from your PLEG.

I am not sure I follow where you are having problems.
When you select the Actions tab your condition will be one of two places.

  1. In the DropDown list with a label of: “Add Actions for Condition:”
    Which will add it to the table on that tab.
  2. Already in the table on that tab.

Then you select the edit to add actions for a selected condition.

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I think I might have cracked it… amazing what a clear head and being told you’re on the right track will do.

my issue was that in the Actions page, I thought all the actions would be listed in the “add action for condition” dropdown.
Instead, it seems I need to into “Edit” and then select the “Immediate” option, where I can then add devices, either as “advanced” or “control”.

So, hopefully all sorted now :slight_smile:

One final quick question if I may, I’ve set my schedule to run from sunset to 23:59 to turn of the Christmas tree. Does that mean that 00:00 the tree will turn itself off. OR, so I need to create another schedule that shuts down the light at midnight?

Thanks

Casp.

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Set one schedule sSunsetTo2359.

Condition 1- sSunsetTo2359. Action: Turn on the lights
Condition 2- !sSunsetTo2359. Action: Turn off the lights

Condition 2 uses the same schedule but the ! means “not”. So Condition 1 looks to see if the schedule is true and thus turns on the lights. Condition 2 looks to see if the schedule is false and if so turns them off.