Scene & trigger Questions

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Hi,
I am using Vera lite with a schlage lock. I would like to create a scene that when anyone comes home the unlocking of the door would trigger a lamp to go on so we are not walking into a dark home. I have tried to implement this but I must be missing something. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Joe

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I assume you only want the lamp to go on when a PIN is entered on the door, and not every time the door is unlocked (otherwise unlocked it from the inside would trigger the scene as well).

Do somewhat like I described here: http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,12903.msg95286.html#msg95286

First create your scene and make sure it works properly when triggered from the browser. Then add a trigger.
From the Triggers tab of the scene:

  • Choose the lock device
  • Choose “A PIN Code is entered”
  • Name the trigger
  • Enter a PIN code index (or use * for any PIN code)

You can determine the PIN code index by locking at the lock device, PIN Settings tab.

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thank you. working well. I appreciate you taking the time to help.

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How would you go about setting this up to only go after after a certain time or sunset?

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Once you try to run a scene based on more than 1 thing (Lock and NightTime in your case) than you have exceeded the capabilities of the UI5 user interface.

You have a couple of options:

[ul][li]Combination Switch plugin[/li]
[li]Program Logic Event Generator plugin[/li]
[li]Lua Code - With code you can do just about anything.[/li][/ul]

I listed these in the order of easy but limited, to hard but flexible.