Could someone please show me some examples of how to set up a scene? I’ve tried and the UI makes absolutely no sense to me. I don’t seem to be able to set up even a basic Scene. If you could post a few examples of how to set up scenes, maybe I’ll get it. I would like to do things like set up a nightlight to come on at sunset and go off at sunrise. A fountain to be controlled by a motion detector so that it runs when people are present on the patio, but turns off after they’re gone. A light that comes on when the Schlage lock is accessed, but only if it’s dark outside. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I’m on v883 and I’ve finally got most of my devices to configure except the lock, which I’ll try resetting one more time this evening. Thanks for your help!
First of all, don’t be embarrassed asking about Scenes. I don’t think they are as intuitive as they could be, and I’d probably hasten to say the same about a lot of Vera’s functions at this stage.
My favorite scene involves the Schlage lock and a lamp module. And it goes rather like this:
SCENE named “Front Door Entry”
EVENT #1: He Unlocks (Enabled)
DEVICE: Front Door Deadbolt
EVENT TYPE: A PIN Code is Entered
EVENT NAME: He Unlocked
WHICH USER CODE: His
NOTIFY USER(S): Her (which gets sent via email)
EVENT #2: She Unlocks (Enabled)
DEVICE: Front Door Deadbolt
EVENT TYPE: A PIN Code is Entered
EVENT NAME: She Unlocked
WHICH USER CODE: Hers
NOTIFY USER(S): Him (which gets sent via email and SMS)
COMMANDS:
ROOM: Living Room
DEVICE: Lamp
“Set level” to “50%” “After 3 minutes” “Off”
I doubt you can currently do – without some fancy Luup programming – what you’re after in terms of having something happen only at a certain time of day, in response to an event. Because any scene involving a Timer plus an Event will be triggered by Vera when EITHER condition is “TRUE” (i.e. the time arrives, or the event occurs, or both).
Also, I have no idea what the LUUP SCENE or LUUP EVENT buttons do.
And some have complained (as I have) that occasionally the scene’s notifications don’t go through, or are delayed up to 20 minutes. Your mileage may vary. Let us know how it goes for you as you begin creating scenes!
I was just playing with what you were talking about with the Schlage lock. I would like to have it set so that ANY user who enters a code it will turn on the light for them, and I would also like to see the ability to only turn it on at certain times of day. It should be easily doable with LUA, I’m don’t know LUA but it should be something like
The screenshots attached show the setup for a Scene which is Timer based, goes “off” at 1 hr before Sunrise (oops, should have been Sunset) and turns ON a Lamp/Light in my House. This is all (Add Scene)/(Add Timer) based.
The first screenshot shows the Timer part (“1hr Before Sunrise”) of the UI during creation, the second screenshot shows the Command (“Light ON”)
You’ll need two scenes, one for sun-up, and one for sun-down.
The other examples are more (Add Scene)/(Add Event) based examples.
Don’t think that’s quite what we were talking about, at least I was wanting the following situation:
I come home from work at 1600, enter my code. Light stays off.
I go out with some friends and come back home at 2200 and the light turns on when I come in the door.
I get up to goto work at 0400, leave and forget something so I come back, enter my code, light turns on.
But when I come home for lunch at 0900 it stays off.
Where does Vera get the sunrise/sunset tables from? I found them on a [url=http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneYear.phpNavy[/url] website which I would assume would be accurate, but was curious where Vera gets the information.
Sorry about that, I was thinking about where he said “A light that comes on when the Schlage lock is accessed, but only if it’s dark outside.” because that’s what I want to do. But what you described is helpful as well. I was playing with it a little bit just now as sunset here was just 11 minutes ago, but I couldn’t get the scene to trigger. I tried setting a manual time and it’s not triggering. Running 879.
I remember reading over the weekend that someone set up his Schlage lock with two different user codes … one which he uses during daylight hours, which triggers a scene not involving a light; and a second “nighttime” user code which triggers a lighting scene.
Makes perfect sense, eh? One day, however, I’m confident Vera will have basic “conditional” flags within scenes, without the need for Luup coding.
To borrow from the programmer’s lexicon, that would mean letting users AND their timers and events together, instead of OR’ing them (as Vera currently does).
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