HS3 Counters and Timers

[macromark]

Some folks have been asking/wondering about counters and timers. Thought I'd share a little something I whipped up here at the office. Perhaps others could share too.

How to turn a 1-button scene controller into multi-scene controller
In this example, I created a series of events that are launched by tapping a single paddle scene controller multiple times.

2 taps on = my office light and reception lights turn on
2 taps off = my office light and reception lights turn off

3 taps on = reception lights turn on
3 taps off = reception lights turn off

5 taps on = my office lights turn on
5 taps off = my office lights turn off

To accomplish this, I created a "Lighting Timer" and 2 counters, "Lighting On" and "Lighting Off". Then, I created the events below.

In operation, tapping the paddle on the controller on or off starts the timer. Each tap on increments the "Lighting On" counter; each tap off increments the "Lighting Off" counter. Once the timer reach 2 seconds, it launches the appropriate lighting event based on the number of taps received. Each lighting event includes an action to run the Group Actions... thus stopping the timer and resetting the counters. A failsafe event is also included to reset the counters and timer after 4 seconds, if the number of taps received is anything other than 2, 3 or 5.



So... what have you guys done with this feature? Love to hear...

[jlrichar]

This is cool. My two year old is going to love this. 1 click, light on, 2 click light on for 5 minutes, 3 click, play audio bwuahahahah.

[NicolaiL]

Re: HS3 Counters and Timers

This will become very useful when Instant Status starts working with our multi instance multi level zwave devices over here in Euro land

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[TeleFragger]

so when you say counter.. is it what i am thinking of?
i would like to have it count how many times my ds10a is tripped (sump pump)????

[drozwood90]

I was just thinking about this. I have an event that allows me to "see" slow double taps, where I just variables to trap the time between taps. The "in 2 seconds" type of action is REALLY going to simplify my scripting for 3 and 4 taps!

I never finished implementing the 3 taps (or more) because it was getting difficult to tell the difference between 2 taps and 2 "fast" taps and 1 "slow" tap (3 taps total).

Any word on the UPB plugin? I can't really test this out until then.

--Dan

[simonog]

Has anyone found a simple way to display a counter with its value as a device on the Home page?

I have a counter which increments by 1 (in a simple event) each time we use 1 litre of water. I should like to show the litres used, ie the counter value, in a simple way.

or am I misusing counters? should I just set up a virtual device and increment its value?

[nsisman]

any one done this yet ?

[TeleFragger]

Re: HS3 Counters and Timers

No.. i only have 5% of my devices in hs right now....

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[bdickhaus]

There is no way that I know of to get or set counters other than through events or the counter management page. There are a couple of script functions to manipulate timers, but it is very limited. I would like to see counter and full timer support in scripts. To start and stop a timer, for example, I had to create a manual event for each action on each timer and trigger those events from a script. It works, but it is clunky.

Bill

[Sean Willoughby]

Is it me or is there a trick to adding a counter or timer. Every time I try to create one on the web tab it just sits there and does nothing. It will not create anything. All I can do is hit the big "x" on the upper right corner which cancels it out. I am running Beta .42. Any guidance would be helpful.

[rmasonjr]

Is it me or is there a trick to adding a counter or timer. Every time I try to create one on the web tab it just sits there and does nothing. It will not create anything. All I can do is hit the big "x" on the upper right corner which cancels it out. I am running Beta .42. Any guidance would be helpful.

I just created both here with Chrome and they work fine. Which browser are you using?

[donstephens]

I think Rich tricked out the timer and counter calls in latest version. See the help page.

There is no way that I know of to get or set counters other than through events or the counter management page. There are a couple of script functions to manipulate timers, but it is very limited. I would like to see counter and full timer support in scripts. To start and stop a timer, for example, I had to create a manual event for each action on each timer and trigger those events from a script. It works, but it is clunky.

Bill

[bdickhaus]

There are still some timer functions I would like to see that aren't there. I'm going to open a ticket for an enhancement request. I would like to be able to stop, start and set timers from a script. TimerReset sets the timer to zero, but automatically starts it, I'd like to be able to set a timer to zero, but leave it in whatever state it is in (running or stopped).

Bill

[Sean Willoughby]

It is working now. Weird thing is I had to create a timer through an event and then things started working on the Timer/Counter Page. Just needed a kick start! BTW I am using IE10.

[bdraper]

Cool stuff, is there anyway to display the timer and counter values in HSTouch?