Advanced event criteria options

[PKWilson]

Hi all,

I'm sure this must be documented somewhere, but I'm struggling to find it. Can anyone point me to where I can find the values that are accepted by the event criteria, specifically:

House Mode
User Mode
Room Mode
Time of Day

I've tried various combinations of numbers, words (armed, away etc). I managed to work out Daytime and Night for the time of day..but I assume there are more.

Is there a definitive list of all the event criteria and the values they expect?

Thanks
Phil

[ddamron]

Take a look at the Apex Alarm, you should be able to find all that info from the GSD template.

Regards,

Dan

[PKWilson]

Thanks for that info. I was able to find the house mode numeric equivalents in the ruby code.

Unfortunately it doesn't appear to do anything. The event I'm testing with is just a simple "Check every minute and if the house is in 'Armed - away' mode, turn a light on.

So my event criteria are:

(
Time of day = 1m AND
House Mode = 2
)

It doesn't matter what I have in the house mode, it always turns the light on. I've tried using numbers, "Armed - away", "ARMED_AWAY", contains "away" as well as all those in single quotes and a number of other variations, but it doesn't matter what I put in as a value, the light always turned on.

Do I need to have another criteria?

I have used the pk_housemode criteria with a "House Mode Changed" event and it works fine with the numeric values, I just don't seem to be able to get the House Mode criteria to have any affect at all.

Does anyone have any other ideas?


Thanks for your help.

Phil

[tschak909]

The values can be determined by looking up the relevant PK_ for a given table:


mysql> SELECT PK_HouseMode, Description from HouseMode;

+--------------+-----------------------+
| PK_HouseMode | Description           |
+--------------+-----------------------+
|            1 | Unarmed - at home     |
|            2 | Armed - away          |
|            3 | Armed - at home       |
|            4 | Sleeping              |
|            5 | Entertaining          |
|            6 | Armed - Extended away |
+--------------+-----------------------+
6 rows in set (0.02 sec)

mysql> select PK_UserMode, Description FROM UserMode;
+-------------+----------------+
| PK_UserMode | Description    |
+-------------+----------------+
|           1 | At Home        |
|           2 | Away           |
|           3 | Sleeping       |
|           4 | Do not disturb |
+-------------+----------------+
4 rows in set (0.03 sec)


roommode? where do you see that?

time of day is simply a 24 hour time format. i.e. 11pm becomes 23:00

-Thom

[PKWilson]

Thanks Thom

Unfortunately setting a criteria using the House Mode (not PK_HouseMode) appears to have no affect.

When I have a criteria set to House Mode = 2, it doesn't matter if I have set my house to any other number, the criteria always acts if House Mode = 2 is true.

As in the example in my previous post, all I'm doing is running an interval timer (Time of Day = 1m) and checking to see what the House Mode is (House Mode = 2). No matter what I set the house to in the security screen on the orbiter, it always triggers that event as if House Mode = 2 was true. In my test case, by turning a light on.

Maybe it's just a glitch on my system. I'd love to hear if this simple event works correctly on another system.

Also, the Room Mode is just another criteria in the Advanced Event criteria dropdown, after PK_Skin and before Specific Date. I have no idea what it's referring to.

Cheers

[PKWilson]

Up until now I have been trying to do this by adding a timed event and then going into the Advanced Configuration to edit the criteria.

I thought I would have a go by creating an advanced event based on the interval timer. I tried using the same notation as the timed event (time of day = 1m), but this doesn't seem to work.

How do I specify the interval when creating an interval timer advanced event?

Thanks

[tschak909]

House Mode must be an integer.

Look at the HouseMode table and use the PK_HouseMode values.

-Thom

[bulek]

Hi,

I'm also spotting incorrect behavour regarding criteria that includes housemodes. I've implemented few simple actions when housemode changes (in that case I'm also trying to set User modes accordingly), but it seems that it works for certain changes of housemode and not fo the others...

I guess the best thing to do right now would be to maybe accumulate those problems to single wiki page and then maybe one of developers could review them and fix things if necessary.

I agree that having working event handler is one of the most important things under LMCE (now when we're slowly progressing well on the core features).

It would also be great if some php guy could enhance web interface (so certain values,criterias could be selected from pulldown menus and not lurking into sql database)...

I guess something similar to what Casaverde did with their interface would be really well accepted. Dealing with events and actions should be as easy as possible...

Thanks in advance,

regards,

Bulek.

[tschak909]

One of my end goals is to revamp the way the system is programmed by users.

Eventually, I want to take a capabilities based approach:

I have a room
   room has this device (say, a media director, a tv, etc.)
   room has several of that device (some lights)
   room has these sensors (a motion detector, a contact sensor, etc.)

what all can I do with what I have in this room?

Present those options, along with a slimlined UI for each option in an uncluttered fashion.

-Thom

[tschak909]

The database contains the states.

We have code that takes databases and creates ORM wrappers for them, one of the side effects of this, are that table rows are given #defines in the code, which are referenced by various bits of code in LMCE.

In this case, The Event_Plugin implements ALL of the event system.

-Thom

[bulek]

One of my end goals is to revamp the way the system is programmed by users.

Eventually, I want to take a capabilities based approach:

I have a room
   room has this device (say, a media director, a tv, etc.)
   room has several of that device (some lights)
   room has these sensors (a motion detector, a contact sensor, etc.)

what all can I do with what I have in this room?

Present those options, along with a slimlined UI for each option in an uncluttered fashion.

-Thom

I'll add few ideas...

I think that approach with predefined events and filling in just needed certain parts (devices,sensors) is a good start. What I'm missing is the convenient way to define things from a pulldown list of available choices for particular spot in criteria or action...

I also played with Micasaverde demo and I think they also have few interesting approaches implemented....

I'd suggest that in first phase we get event handling into working and debuggable state. Then try to make thing easier for others to use it and get to a set of most used common events, that can be offered as prepackaged templates for final user....

Regards,

Bulek.