Status for any light on

[gmab]

I'm setting up Imperihome and I have a house 'dashboard'. What I would like to do is have a single indicator showing if any light is on in the house.

I setup a virtual device and turn it 'on' with the event logic.

If light1 changes and becomes 1 to 255
ORIF light2 changes and becomes 1 to 255
ORIF light3 changes and becomes 1 to 255
ORIF light"x" changes and becomes 1 to 255
Then set device lightstatus to ON

This tells me if any light is ON in the house

How the heck to turn it off?
If light1 changes and becomes off
ANDIF light2 is off
ANDIF light3 is off
Then set device to lightstatus to OFF

I would have to create an event for each combination such as
If light2 changes and becomes off
ANDIF light1 is off
ANDIF light3 is off
Then set device to lightstatus to OFF

Guru's, is there a better way to do this? This seems awfully cumbersome if there are 100 lights.

[waynehead99]

Not sure of your scripting abilities, but you could make a basic script that you could pass parameters to. It would still be one event to check device changes, but use that event to pass the data to the script and control the virtual device.

[sparkman]

Why not use a composite widget in Imperihome and select all your lights with it?

Cheers
Al

[gmab]

Not sure of your scripting abilities, but you could make a basic script that you could pass parameters to. It would still be one event to check device changes, but use that event to pass the data to the script and control the virtual device.

Scripting abilities are minimal at the moment but plan on playing around with a few scripts.

Why not use a composite widget in Imperihome and select all your lights with it?

I did have a composite to begin with, but there isn't a status-only composite. I would accidentally hit the on/off button hence changing everything in the house at once.
I played around with trying to make the lights sensors and using composite that way but it didn't work out very well.

Of course right after I posted this I found a solution. I can use this with Imperihome, HSTouch, and Scene Controllers.

The ON logic above works fine.

OFF logic requires 2 events.

If light1 changes and becomes OFF
ORIF light2 changes and becomes OFF
ORIF light3 changes and becomes OFF
ORIF lightx changes and becomes OFF
Then run event eventname

This event is manually run
ANDIF light1 has value equal to OFF
ANDIF light2 has value equal to OFF
ANDIF light3 has value equal to OFF
ANDIF lightx has value equal to OFF
Then set device to OFF

[DSteiNeuro]

Here is a quick script to track which lights are on and update a virtual device (replace ref 763 with your Virtual Device). You will also need to edit your device location (dv.Loacation2) for your lighting location.

It may need a bit of clean up but works:

Sub Main(Parm As Object)

'Script to display Light Status

Dim Status
Dim DeviceVal

Dim Offf'0
Dim OnOn'1



OnOn = ""
Offf = ""

Dim col As New Collections.Generic.List(Of Scheduler.Classes.DeviceClass)
        Dim dv As Scheduler.Classes.DeviceClass

        Dim EN As Scheduler.Classes.clsDeviceEnumeration
        EN = hs.GetDeviceEnumerator
        Do
            dv = EN.GetNext
            If dv Is Nothing Then Continue Do
            col.Add(dv)
        Loop Until EN.Finished

        If col IsNot Nothing AndAlso col.Count > 0 Then
            For Each dv In col
                If dv Is Nothing Then Continue For

		If  dv.Location2(Nothing)= "Lighting" then 
		DeviceVal= hs.DeviceValue(dv.Ref(Nothing))

If DeviceVal = 0 then
Offf = Offf & dv.Name(Nothing) & ", " & "<Br>"
Else
OnOn  = OnOn & dv.Location(Nothing) & ":- " & dv.Name(Nothing) &  ", " & "<Br>"
End If

'hs.writelog ("OK", OnOn)
'hs.WriteLog("Ref: " & dv.Ref(Nothing), dv.Name(Nothing) & " " & DeviceVal & " " & Status) 'Update HS Log
'hs.WriteLog("Ref: " & dv.Ref(Nothing), dv.Name(Nothing) & " " & dv.Location(Nothing) & " " & dv.Location2(Nothing))

			End If
           Next
      End If


If OnOn = "" then OnOn = "All Lights are Off"
hs.SetDeviceString(763, Trim(OnOn), True)


End Sub

[waynehead99]

How are you calling that script? Are you passing parameters to it?

I have a couple different ideas on how to do this with an event and without an event.

[DSteiNeuro]

You could do it either way but no need to pass parameters if you set the virtual device Ref and your location for lighting devices in the script.

I thnk that I just run the script manually but you could set other triggers.
I use a similar script for a bunch of other devices, for example to see which alarm zones are open.

[MarkN]

Here is a quick script to track which lights are on and update a virtual device

Thanks for posting the script, I have just started working on scripting and this will give me something to play with.

Mark

[jhearty]

If you want to solve this with events only, make one event that has a bunch of Or If's to check if ANY light was turned off, then have the Then action of that event run another event. The second event's If trigger is manually triggered, then it has a bunch of And If conditions to check if ALL lights are turned off, with a Then action of controlling your virtual device. I do the same thing in an event to turn the heat back on when all windows are closed.

[Edit] Missed post 4 where this solution was already found.