Open door notification before alarm kicks in

Plugins & Plugin Development Program Logic (PLEG)
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Here is the deal:

I have a few triggers that set of an alarm when armed. It will be armed at a certain time and if I activate a scene like “goto bed”.

The problem is that if one of the door sensors is still triggered (open), it will imediately trigger the alarm.

What I would like to establish is that the alarm checks if the door sensor is triggered at the moment that it will be executed and then give a message that you first have to shut the doors to execute the scene.

Is this possible in pleg and how should I do that.

I installed PLEG and the pl core, but when I open the PLEG it says that I have to install the core first. What am I doing wrong here?

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You must reload VERA … and clear the Browser cache … one way to do the latter is to close all browser windows then reopen the browser.

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Yep, I did that.

But how about the triggers. Can i get a an alarm when the door sensors are tripped when a scene starts to arm the sensors. I can’t seem to find the scenes in the program logic plugins.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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There is no way to trigger when a Scene is started.
You can trigger based on the side effects of the Scene.

Instead you can have a Virtual Switch that controls the arming of your alarm.
Turn it on.
PLEG can detect that … verify that all security sensors are in the proper state.
If so … then it can actually arm the alarm system … if not it can notify you with an alert (Push or Vera Alert, or Sonos Announcement)
When PLEG detects that the alarm is disarmed … it can automatically turn off the Virtual Switch.