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Randy, many thanxs for taking the time.. to edumcate, your examples makes it clear. With you graphics and verbiage I can see that I've corrupted some of my events without not knowing any better.
Now that Rich and company has formally released HS3 v.435 a practical new feature that would identify (visually or via a subroutine) those events that have; errors, devices with triggers/conditions that are no longer working either by deleting/inserting new devices ect. Today one has to open all of ones events to discover where or not I have conditions that are no longer functional and obviously where triggers are broken and cannot be easily seen other than looking within Logs and doing investigation to figure out where the problem. Mike
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Originally posted by MNB View PostRandy, I decided to read your post in detail.. If I understand you correctly
Code:(simple example) If and If Or If and If
The secondary trigger is the first "Or If" statement
The first condition is the first "If" statement
The second condition is the first "and If" (after the first "If")
The third condition is the first "Or If" statement and
The fourth condition is the second "and If" (after the first "Or If")
Trying to better understand your post. Mike
IF and OR IF always precede triggers.
Here are some screenshots. I built an vent with two triggers and a pair of conditions associated with each trigger
The triggers are associated with the conditions as shown by the event being broken into blocks
If you delete the secondary trigger
you will end up with a corrupted event. What was the first secondary condition becomes the secondary trigger. Note that a weekend day is not a valid trigger since it is true for 48 hours each week.
The only cure is to delete the remaining elements of the secondary block
After deleting it all, you can add a secondary trigger if you want
The lessons are:- Never delete a primary trigger. If you do, delete the event and start over. If you need a different trigger, change it.
- If you need to delete a secondary trigger, you must delete all of the conditions as well and it is better to delete them first
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Randy, I decided to read your post in detail.. If I understand you correctly
Code:(simple example) If and If Or If and If
The secondary trigger is the first "Or If" statement
The first condition is the first "If" statement
The second condition is the first "and If" (after the first "If")
The third condition is the first "Or If" statement and
The fourth condition is the second "and If" (after the first "Or If")
Trying to better understand your post. Mike
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Originally posted by MNB View PostDumb question... why do I define the backup; format, type, directories and destination folder both within the event action and within the BLbackup PI? seems counter intuitive, am I missing something? Mike
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Originally posted by MNB View PostWell, I went back to square one and re-created both a new VD and event and lo and behold I now have a working device/event. I'm not sure why (me thinks may have been corrupted trigger portion of the event) but I'm happy that its working, again thanxs Randy for a great tutorage example to be added to ones Home Automation tool box Mike
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Dumb question... why do I define the backup; format, type, directories and destination folder both within the event action and within the BLbackup PI? seems counter intuitive, am I missing something? Mike
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Well, I went back to square one and re-created both a new VD and event and lo and behold I now have a working device/event. I'm not sure why (me thinks may have been corrupted trigger portion of the event) but I'm happy that its working, again thanxs Randy for a great tutorage example to be added to ones Home Automation tool box Mike
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Randy, when I enter start I only get the following:
Code:Apr-23 16:56:03 Device Control Device: Utility Controls Blbackup (folder) to Start (3) by/from: CAPI Control Handler
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Originally posted by MNB View PostNo the event did not trigger when I selected "Start" on the VD, in fact I put a start icon within the VD to change when Start was depressed but it did not change the VD status which I would have expected when depressed the start. I will explore some more, I could restart my HS3, I noticed that I'm have some TTS issues since updating to beta v.435 e.g. my Ultracid isn't announcing when I'm getting phone calls which was working back at beta v.425. I noticed that you have the "start" but with "unspecified" selected not sure what the difference between it and "On" is. Mike- Select "Start" on the device and the change of status is logged
- If the device change was logged, the log should show the event was triggered
- The backup status device should change to a value of 2=In progress
- After some time the status device will either show success or failure
Where is the failure in yours? Mine changes so quickly, I never see the icon go blank, as soon as I click Start the backup in progress icon shows.
Here is what happened with mine just now (newest at top):
Apr-23 2:43:42 PM BLBackup Info The backup process (Folder Tree - Full) has started at 4/23/2018 2:43:42 PM...
Apr-23 2:43:42 PM Event Event Trigger "Utilities - Backup BLBackup - Folder DS10"
Apr-23 2:43:42 PM Device Control Device: Utility Controls BLBackup to Start (3) by/from: CAPI Control Handler
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Originally posted by rprade View PostI have no idea why yours doesn't work. Mine has worked for a year or so and ran when I captured the screenshots above. Did the event trigger when you selected "Start"?
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Originally posted by MNB View PostRandy, I must be missing something, I created a virtual Device with the 4 values same as your example (see attached) and modified my backup event to include "Start" Trigger but when I select the Start on the VD it doesn't start the BLbackup but if I manually start the event it works like a champ. Mike
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Randy, I must be missing something, I created a virtual Device with the 4 values same as your example (see attached) and modified my backup event to include "Start" Trigger but when I select the Start on the VD it doesn't start the BLbackup but if I manually start the event it works like a champ. Mike
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Randy, I agree with Robert.. "you be da Event man!". I like your virtual device approach rather than having to go to the PI and execute it. Mike
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Thanks Randy... I may have seen this, but it's been a long time.
I like your mod for the device. You are the 'Event God!'
Robert
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