running scences

Hi all,

I have a aeon appliance switch setup on my pellet stove, and I would like the switch to auto turn off when the stove is IDLE. I know its idle when the power consumption goes below 10kwh. I setup a scene where i had the triggers being my nest is reporting we are home, and that the power is reporting below 10kwh on my switch. then it will turn off my switch after 5 min. however when i ran this yesterday my stove was on and running 150kwh and the scene still ran and shut off my stove. needless to say that my wife was home and the stove started filling with smoke and then filled my whole house with smoke because it was switched off and she didn’t know what to do. my question is am I setting this up correctly? how would I get the scene to actually check before it shuts it off. Now I suppose that the stove could of been off and then in that 5min wait the stove decided to turn on again because it was not at temperature. just want to make sure my logic on this is correct.

now when i was looking to buy a home automation setup I selected this one because i read somewhere that i could use a PC app that would give me even more programming like if and then statements, but i can not find that app anymore and i think that will allow me to setup what i want here.

Vera scenes do not have much capability for multiple conditions. This can be fixed quite easily by adding a little Lua code to them. See Conditional Scene Execution for an explanation and examples.

now when i was looking to buy a home automation setup I selected this one because i read somewhere that i could use a PC app that would give me even more programming like if and then statements, but i can not find that app anymore and i think that will allow me to setup what i want here.

I don’t know what app you read about but you can certainly get help with complex logic. Have a look at the Program Logic Event Generator (PLEG) plugin. There is an introduction at PLEG Basics.

The PLEG plugin can also provide a lot of capability for moderate to complex logic.

See:
http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,21603.0.html

awesome, thank you both for the reply, looks like I got some reading to do!