How to test multiple flags?

[email68]

I have an event that I want to fire when my alarm goes to disarm. Then I want it to check the states of various flags and do an action based on that flag being set or not. Not sure the best way to do this.

Example

If Alarm goes Disarm
Then
If Flag A is Set Then do X
If Flag B is Set Then do Y
If Flag C is Set Then do Z
Etc....

[mrhappy]

As far as I could see you got two options, one is three (or however many) events for flags a/b/c (the main trigger is disarm and the condition is flags a/b/c) and three sets of actions. The other option is a script that is run on the event, inside that script (depending on what the action is) you decide whether the condition is met and which action to take.

[email68]

How to test multiple flags?

No!! Not scripting! lol

Actually I have 8 devices to test against. Maybe more. If a flag is set, I want a relay to activate. If the flag is off, I want a relay to deactivate.

I was hoping a group action could do this.


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[S-F]

While I'm not precisely sure what flags are I'm assuming that they are some sort of variable in your alarm panel that mine doesn't have. That being said, I would make one event for every flag that is manually triggered and has the desired actions. Then I'd make one master event that is triggered on the system being disarmed that in turn runs all of the other events. This is a bit of work to set up but the log will be able to show you exactly which event ran so you'll have a clear idea of what's going on.

[email68]

How to test multiple flags?

I just made some devices that I'm calling flags.

I see how this would work. Thanks. I was hoping for something more streamlined. It would be great to have nested if/then/else logic. My 15 year old stargate could. But I digress [emoji3]


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[S-F]

I just made some devices that I'm calling flags.

I see how this would work. Thanks. I was hoping for something more streamlined. It would be great to have nested if/then/else logic. My 15 year old stargate could. But I digress [emoji3]


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That kind of nested logic would be pretty cool. And ELSE to go along with the THEN. It has been discussed many times. It all boils down to the fact that running events from other events lets you clearly see what's going on in the log. So while it is more work to set up it's easier to troubleshoot and generally just get useful information from the log. Rich had a open "show me how an ELSE would be useful" and nobody could come up with anything aside from it making event creation easier but at the expense of logging.

[email68]

I guess overcoming my laziness will be rewarded with better logs. lol

Seriously though, I hadn't considered that. Thanks for pointing it out.


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[S-F]

In your master event don't forget to check the box "only run if other event conditions are true" for each run another event action or else the child events will run no matter what their conditions are.