Watch on user data/settings

Plugins & Plugin Development openLuup
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Is it possible to create a watch on vera user settings in openluup? I would like to create a trigger on the ishome property of the user settings:

<users_settings>
<users_setting id=“” ishome=“1”/>
<users_setting id=“” ishome=“1”/>
<users_setting id=“” ishome=“0”/>

This way I could use the vera app for geofencing, but create logic to react on it in OpenLuup/AltUI.

2

Well, maybe the example is too general. I could, instead of triggering on house mode set by geofencing, trigger on a specific user coming home or going away.

I could use Vera Proximity, but I find the vera app working quite well for geofencing.

3

It’s hard to build an efficient trigger on device or system attributes. Device variables are complex data structures with the mechanism to watch them, whereas attributes are simply light-weight value holders. AFAIK, the user settings themselves are part of the user_data which itself requires perhaps 200 or 300 Kbytes to download and then you have to parse it. Not something to be done as a regular basis.

4

Hi,

I use per user enter/exit scenes triggered by the Vera App geofences and toggle multi switch buttons in those scenes. You then have a device reflecting the home/away status and you can watch those BAU.

BTW, to use with MultiSwitch, create and test the scenes using a browser and only then add the Geofence trigger in the Vera App. After adding a Geofence trigger you will not see the scene in your browser anymore.

Cheers Rene

5

[quote=“reneboer, post:4, topic:198588”]Hi,

I use per user enter/exit scenes triggered by the Vera App geofences and toggle multi switch buttons in those scenes. You then have a device reflecting the home/away status and you can watch those BAU.

BTW, to use with MultiSwitch, create and test the scenes using a browser and only then add the Geofence trigger in the Vera App. After adding a Geofence trigger you will not see the scene in your browser anymore.

Cheers Rene[/quote]

O wow, I wasn?t even aware of this functionality in the app. Thanks a lot!