Whats wrong with this event?

[Rotech]

I made 2 conditional event with the following rules:

Event 1:

Trigger: Ligth(1) on or ligth (2)on

Action: Turn pump on

Event 2:

Trigger: Ligth(1) off and Ligth (2)off

Action: Turn pump off


the problem that aim having is that when I check the log, these event keep on triggering. The ligth above mentioned are triggered by motion sensors. My question is:

How do i tell it to fire once when the ligth is on ??

How do I tell it to fire once when the ligth is off ??



Can somebody shed some ligth?

[TeleFragger]

well what im thinking is this.... if your using a motion sensor... you will always have the logs full of on's....

is everything working correctly but you just dont want so much in the log?

if that is the case then you can do 2 things..

1. on the device setup check off Do not log commands from this device
2. within your event then throw a hs.writelog to get the logged data.... but only do that for the on and off of the actual pump....


im just double checking with you that your main concern is mainly so much in the log..... I actually checked that box off on alot of my devices.... just dont want so much crap in my logs.....

[rmasonjr]

This is where DooMotion really shines - handling multiple ONs from motion sensors.

Without DooMotion, I think you have a couple of options (off the top of my head). To your ON event, you could add "and has been OFF for x minutes" and for your OFF event, add "and has been ON for x minutes"

or

Create a virtual device and add that to your ON/OFF events - if this virtual device is ON and your ON event fires, turn on the pump. Same for the OFF event, except check to see if the virtual device is OFF. You then control the ON/OFF of the virtual device as needed.

Hope this helps...

[fran_joel]

This should work exactly the way you want it to:

Event 1:

Trigger: Light(1) CHANGED to ON and light(2) OFF (Group 1)

or

Trigger: Light(1) OFF and light(2) CHANGED to ON (Group 2)

Action: Turn pump on

Event 2 :

Trigger: Light(1) CHANGED to OFF and Light (2) OFF (Group 1)

or

Trigger: Light(1) OFF and Light (2) CHANGED to OFF (Group 2)

Action: Turn pump off

[Rotech]

Fran-joel

what is the diference having the event made this way?

This should work exactly the way you want it to:

Event 1:

Trigger: Light(1) CHANGED to ON and light(2) OFF (Group 1)

or

Trigger: Light(1) OFF and light(2) CHANGED to ON (Group 2)

Action: Turn pump on

Event 2 :

Trigger: Light(1) CHANGED to OFF and Light (2) OFF (Group 1)

or

Trigger: Light(1) OFF and Light (2) CHANGED to OFF (Group 2)

Action: Turn pump off

[TeleFragger]

Fran-joel

what is the diference having the event made this way?

Maybe due to the value being Changed vs turned on..

so if the item is on, your event will run, every time a motion kicks on your event will run..

by setting when the device is Changed to on - then when it is on... the event will not re fire up due to the device is already on...

I believe this is how I use the motion in my garage for the lights......

[fran_joel]

Fran-joel

what is the diference having the event made this way?

Because this way, it works...


Seriously, the main difference is having CHANGED to ON as the trigger and not is ON or is OFF.

A device only changes to ON once, but is ON continuously after that... In terms of defining a trigger, it makes a huge difference.

If you select is ON or is OFF as a trigger, it will trigger repeatedly because the trigger condition is always true as long as your device remains ON or OFF.

If you select CHANGED to ON or CHANGED to OFF as a trigger, it will trigger only once when the device changes state, which is what you want here.

[Rotech]

Thank you for the explanation, now it does make sense!!

[RAM]

The other way you could do it is add another condition to event 1 that the pump is OFF and to event 2 that the pump is ON. That way it with only trigger once to get the pump into the state you want.