Easy Trigger plug-in - Feature Requests

[smokeycoles]

Hi Spud

I wanted to request a feature for triggers, for your consideration?

Before Sunset +/- ? hour
After Sunset +/- ? hour

Before Sunrise +/- ? hour
After Sunrise +/- ? hour

Between Sunrise +/- ? hour to Sunset +/- ? hour
Between Sunset +/- ? hour to Sunrise +/- ? hour

Post Ref: http://board.homeseer.com/showthread...=1#post1260428

I am going to attempt to do this on a schedule, but do think this may be a nice feature to have. This is another great plugin of yours.
Keep up the hard work

[randy]

Hi Spud

I wanted to request a feature for triggers, for your consideration?

Before Sunset +/- ? hour
After Sunset +/- ? hour

Before Sunrise +/- ? hour
After Sunrise +/- ? hour

Between Sunrise +/- ? hour to Sunset +/- ? hour
Between Sunset +/- ? hour to Sunrise +/- ? hour

I think you want conditions. The first four are already HS triggers. The first four would work best as ranges rather than specific times. For example:

The time is after 30 minutes before sunrise
-or-
The Time is before 30 minutes after sunset

[smokeycoles]

Randy you are indeed correct. Sorry Conditions is what I would like please.
I always confuse them!
And I agree about the first 4.

[smokeycoles]

Another request please to consider:

Toggle Events

For Example, Application:
Event1: Open All Blinds Fully
Event2: Open All Blinds (Comfort)
Event3: Close All Blinds

Thank you

[spud]

in version 3.0.0.29 available here
I have added 4 time conditions:

• The time is before (sunrise +/- T)
• The time is after (sunrise +/- T)
• The time is before (sunset +/- T)
• The time is after (sunset +/- T)

[randy]

in version 3.0.0.29 available here
I have added 4 time conditions:

• The time is before (sunrise +/- T)
• The time is after (sunrise +/- T)
• The time is before (sunset +/- T)
• The time is after (sunset +/- T)

Thanks, works great! I've gotten accustomed to using schedules, but this is a nice option to have.

[Malosa]

Suggestion for an advanced timer

Hi Spud,

i was thinking something , would it not be nice to add a advanced timer to this plugin ?
so we can trigger also trough script and maybe other options ?
Because the one what is build in homeseer doesnt work with scripting..

I think many people would like it ,

How u think about it ?

[stefxx]

Random wait?

So instead of a "Then Wait 2 Minuten, 20 Seconds" something like "Then Wait between 2 minutes, 10 Seconds and 5 Minutes, 30 Seconds"?

Hi Spud,

Never got a response on this request. Is this something you want to consider?

Thanks again!

[stefxx]

in version 3.0.0.29 available here
I have added 4 time conditions:

• The time is before (sunrise +/- T)
• The time is after (sunrise +/- T)
• The time is before (sunset +/- T)
• The time is after (sunset +/- T)

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Great! Two questions:
- It doesn't seem to work for group actions (time is always reset to 0). Is this a bug of by design?
- What about Between Sunrise +/- ? hour to Sunset +/- ? hour? I tried to combine the conditions to make a "between" condition but it doesn't seem to work (before sunrise +/- and after sunset +/-, one is always false )

[spud]

Hi Spud,

Never got a response on this request. Is this something you want to consider?

Thanks again!

The HS3 API limits to 2 minutes the delay for a plugin action to respond, so if I would implement a "random wait" action it would be limited to 2 minutes, so I think this is one feature that must be implemented in HS3 itself.

[stefxx]

Makes sense. Thanks!

[spud]

Great! Two questions:
- It doesn't seem to work for group actions (time is always reset to 0). Is this a bug of by design?
- What about Between Sunrise +/- ? hour to Sunset +/- ? hour? I tried to combine the conditions to make a "between" condition but it doesn't seem to work (before sunrise +/- and after sunset +/-, one is always false )

- group conditions are buggy when the conditions comes from a plugin. I have reported it several times, but no luck so far.

- "before sunrise AND after sunset" can never be true because the current date-time is compared to sunrise/sunset time of the current day.

[stefxx]

- "before sunrise AND after sunset" can never be true because the current date-time is compared to sunrise/sunset time of the current day.

Exactly! That is why I was requesting a "Between sunset +/- time and sunrise +/- time" condition

There is a standard condition "If the time is nighttime (after sunset, before sunrise)" but I can't do a +/- time on the sunset/sunrise unfortunately.

[randy]

Exactly! That is why I was requesting a "Between sunset +/- time and sunrise +/- time" condition

There is a standard condition "If the time is nighttime (after sunset, before sunrise)" but I can't do a +/- time on the sunset/sunrise unfortunately.

You would duplicate your triggers (using Easy Trigger Conditions) to make it work.

IF Trigger
AND IF The time is after (sunset +/- T)

OR IF Trigger
AND IF The time is before (sunrise +/- T)

Then Action(s)

[stefxx]

Thanks. That is why I hate "OR IF", because you have to duplicate all the other triggers/conditions as well. It gets messy quickly.