Scene Timer - FEATURE REQUEST

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This is what I currently do with homeseer

Timer: 5.30am
Fireplace ON
Delay 20 minutes: Hallway Lights on
Delay 60 minutes: Hallway Lights and Fireplace off

whats the best way to do this with a Vera scene?

I can turn the fireplace on at 5.30, and I can turn it off at 6.30 (with the after function). But how can I delay the turn on for the hallway light without creating a whole new scene?

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[quote=“madas, post:1, topic:165008”]This is what I currently do with homeseer

Timer: 5.30am
Fireplace ON
Delay 20 minutes: Hallway Lights on
Delay 60 minutes: Hallway Lights and Fireplace off

whats the best way to do this with a Vera scene?

I can turn the fireplace on at 5.30, and I can turn it off at 6.30 (with the after function). But how can I delay the turn on for the hallway light without creating a whole new scene?[/quote]

You should be able to set it exactly as you described. I did that with one scene that when I activated it it would wait a minute before it would actually turn on the light, then 30 seconds later turned it back off. I did it when I was first playing with Vera and was showing the wife what all it could do to gain the WAF.

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I don’t see where to add the pre-action delay…only the post-action delay

I would check again on vera but mine still hangs every other day…so i need to go home and reboot it again

Screenshot attached.

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Oi, I know what I was doing, I had it set for unchanged then after x mins turn off, to cause a delay in turning off the lights. Was gonna use it for the front door lock a couple mins after I lock the door automatically turn off the hall light.

I think you would have to make another scene.

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Thats going to start making things quite messy and complex.

MCV, any chance of a feature request to get a pre-action delay added?

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How do I file this as a feature request with MCV?

do we have an official way to request features?

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mantis?

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I thought that was just for developers. Are we allowed to post to Mantis?

9

Can it done with a luup event?

function set_second_flag()
luup.variable_set(“urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:SecuritySensor1”,“Armed”,“1”,32)
end

luup.call_timer(“set_second_flag”, 1, “5m”, “”, “1”)

The above waits five minutes, then arms a flag variable. You can put in three, the fireplace call first, direct without no call timer, then the second entry with the timer at 20m etc. I’m not sure if the third timer would be added to the second or not (that is, 40m or 60m).

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Let me give that a go, thanks mpenda.

Vera needs to do some of these basic functions from the GUI if they ever want to win some market share from the likes of homeseer etc

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You can get REAL close with the gui (but you’re not playing horseshoes, so close doesn’t count). You can turn the fireplace on and then off after an hour and hallway lights on after 20 minutes, but its the hallway lights off again that is the snag…

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Exactly, If you can say

After W (time) Do X (action) Then after Y (time) Do Z (action)

that’d be perfect in the GUI and would allow for less scenes

13

979 now has ‘advanced’ scenes, which let you do what you want free form.

14

Is this covered in any of the Wiki’s yet?

15

Wiki would help, the “Advanced” button is not very intuitive…

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Its actually exactly like how homeseer does their macros, this is a smart move as HS have it right.

Doing something simple light turning on a light in Advanced seems to be tricky though, lots of options!

17

OK I’ve figured out the advanced scenes and they are excellent. Unfortunately missing one thing.

If I make a large morning scene (I have about 20 lines in my scene now). Unfortunately there is no way to add another action/delay in the middle. I want to replace line 11, I have to delete 12-20 in order to change 11. Not good. Can we get some arrows to move actions up/down?

It’d also be nice to have an Edit button next to each line so you don’t have to delete the whole line to modify something

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Hi all,

Thanks for the suggestions! I’ve added a mantis with a feature request for this. http://bugs.micasaverde.com/view.php?id=736