scene 'leave home', switch only when specific conditions are met

Developer's Corner Scene Scripting
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Hi,

I want to make a scene ‘leave home’ and ‘return home’ which i can use to switch devices when i leave or come home.

Creating a scene and switch the devices is not the problem, my problem is switching devices only when certain conditions are met.

For example i use scene ‘leave home’
This should switch:

  • thermostat to ‘night’ (no problem)
  • arm motion sensor (no problem)
  • when lights are ‘on’ and it is night dim them to 20% BUT when lights are off or it is daylight stay off, so do NOT dim them to 20% (here is my problem)

Same problem for ‘coming home’
I want:

  • set thermostat to ‘comfort’ (no problem)
  • disarm motion sensor (no problem)
  • when it is evening/night turn lights on to my regular (time) scene which runs normally on the time i now come home BUT during daytime NO lights on ofcourse. (here is my problem)

The problem is switching the lights to a setting i prefer and switch them on home coming to the default time scene what should run normally when i did not switched it off.

Anyone any advise if this can be done and how?

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Should be fairly easy to do with PLEG. If you look in the program logic section, there is a new and brilliant ‘how to’ sticky thread

[url=http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/board,48.0.html]http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/board,48.0.html[/url]

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Thx.

Tired it but i do really not understand that plugin, read the manual twice but it is still jibberisch for me

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Just post what you’re trying to do in the program Logic Plugin sub forum and people will help you get it going. Once you’ve dealt with a few scenarios using PLEG will become much easier.

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[quote=“B3rt, post:3, topic:178584”]Thx.

Tired it but i do really not understand that plugin, read the manual twice but it is still jibberisch for me[/quote]

Also check out the excellent tutorial that RexBeckett put together: http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,21603.0.html

and these 2 screencasts that I created:
http://screencast.com/t/fGHSHl6TW
http://screencast.com/t/DokeQWjl

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@ih8gates

Nice Video tutorials - have you done any more ?
It would be great to have some of these as stickys on certain board (if not already) ?

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These are the only 2. Richard pointed out that I could do some of the condition logic more-efficiently in vid 2. I’m thinking of reading through RexBeckett’s PDF instructs so that I’m more confident, then maybe start over…