What is the best way to count the number of devices that are equal to a value?

[NC-Lou]

Hi,

I am trying to create a counter that will count the number of people in my house. I want to set the counter every night at 2:00 AM to the number of people in the house (I am using Life360 places). How can I set a counter to the number of people at a particular place (i.e. Home)?

Throughout the day I will increment and decrement the counter as people come and go, but I want a way to make sure it reset it every night so things don't get out of sync.

Thanks

[Uncle Michael]

More information would be helpful. Are you using a virtual device as your counter or a HomeSeer counter? (Device values are much easier to manipulate than counters.)

[AllHailJ]

You have three ways to count anything

1. Use a counter
2. Use a virtual device
3. Use a global variable.

1. The counter can be controlled using the functions CounterReset, CounterIncrement, and CounterDecrement. The functions can be used as an immediate script as &hs.CounterDecrement("mycounter")

2. If you create a virtual device you can add and subtract from the value. The most straight forward is to write a script where you can set the device value.

hs.SetDeviceValue("VirtualDevice", 5)

3. You can create a global variable in startup.vb this is done as shown in the help manual

dim errst

errst = CreateVar("myvar")

if errst <> "" then
msgbox "Error creating variable"
end if

You can then use a script or an immediate script to set the value and save

SaveVar("myvar", myvalue)

These are the methods that I am aware of but there may be others.

[tenholde]

Keep the counts in an .ini file is another option