Events Running

[PalChgo]

Is there a way to see active events running? I migrated from UDI and that's something I miss.

[teladog01]

In HS4 menu: Tools > Log

From Filter: HomeSeer
Type Filter: Event


Edit: By the way, what's UDI?

[Uncle Michael]

Is there a way to see active events running?

Most events complete in less than a few seconds. Can you say more about what you want to see? Do you have specific events that you want to track?
As teladog01 noted, you can use the log to review what events have run and when.

[PalChgo]

The product was the ISY, by universal-devices. I used to run all insteon but it seemed like the switches and such would just die after a few years so I converted to z wave and homeseer software. For the events I guess it would be nice to see a screen that is showing all the events and which ones are currently running and at which point there run state is at. It's kind of nice because you can have better diagnostic ability to see what stage your event is at or if it is even running. I've made a few mistakes and put in some "true ifs" that caused an event to keep opening up chained processes slowing things down.

[Uncle Michael]

Doesn't your log show continually repeating actions when they occur?

[PalChgo]

It does but sometimes you don't know if its spawning multiple instances of an event or lets say you have an event waiting for something to happen like waiting on a counter or a timer to allow the event to finish. The log fills up with so much other stuff its not always easy to watch it when its updating with other actions.

[randy]

Unless your event has a “Wait” as an Action, it is finished within milliseconds. HomeSeer does not process Actions sequentially, each action is spun off in its own thread. As a result the log entry of an Event’s initiation is all you will see. As soon as it is launched, it is finished. If your Event has a Wait, it will be in suspension during the wait period. Once the Wait period has elapsed, the remaining Actions are launched immediately.

[randy]

It does but sometimes you don't know if its spawning multiple instances of an event or lets say you have an event waiting for something to happen like waiting on a counter or a timer to allow the event to finish. The log fills up with so much other stuff its not always easy to watch it when its updating with other actions.

An Event does not wait for a Timer or Counter. If there is a Timer or Counter as a Condition, the Event will not run until the Condition is true. The Event is not waiting, it is not being run. Once a Trigger and all Conditions are met, the Event will run. When this happens, the Event will be logged, unless logging is disabled for the Event.

[PalChgo]

That is helpful to know. I had forgotten about the wait and that might be exactly what I do need to try to get the motion sensors working correctly.