Outdoor lights turning on at sunset, off at sunrise by themselves!!

[jeangot]

Hello,

I have an outdoor lights setup as X10 light, and I noticed that it seems to be automagically turning on at sunset and off at sunrise. I did not however ask for this, and did not find any relevant options under the light's configuration or under timed events.
In case it matter, this light is linked to a camera (and will properly turn on or off when that camera is viewed).

Does anyone know where I can enable/disable such behavior, as I can't have all my outdoor lights on all night, or is it just a matter of not setting up that "room" as an outdoor area perhaps?

Thanks,

Jean

[totallymaxed]

Hello,

I have an outdoor lights setup as X10 light, and I noticed that it seems to be automagically turning on at sunset and off at sunrise. I did not however ask for this, and did not find any relevant options under the light's configuration or under timed events.
In case it matter, this light is linked to a camera (and will properly turn on or off when that camera is viewed).

Does anyone know where I can enable/disable such behavior, as I can't have all my outdoor lights on all night, or is it just a matter of not setting up that "room" as an outdoor area perhaps?

Thanks,

Jean

Hmmm... good question!

I would imagine that choosing "Outdoor Area" when creating that "Room" will have created a scenario that is causing the lights added to that room to behave as they are... all the Room types have scenarios that get automatically created when you choose them.

I would suggest looking at the scenarios for that room as a first line of attack.

All th best

Andrew

[golgoj4]

To change this

-log into the webadmin
-choose timed events from the left panel
-On the timed events page, there should be an option to for 'advanced', click it
-the next page presented will have the timed events
-look for sunset and sunrise
-click 'edit' in the 'commands' to set what you want it to do.


hth

-golgoj4

[jeangot]

Thanks both for your reply. It was indeed under Timed Events / Advanced, then click on Sunrise/Edit Commands.

Jean

[Marie.O]

golgoj4,

are you able to program a buffer in there, i.e. turn off at sunset + 3hours?

rgds
Oliver

[golgoj4]

I have not tried this actually, but my initial guess would be no. The reason I say this is that when trying to use 'states' it causes my router to reload...i havent played with these in a while but i can take another look.

So currently, in my experience its a set time, not one that adjusts.

[Marie.O]

Thanks to Zaerc (who knows each and every post in the forum it seems), there is solution for my quest http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=6023.msg36465#msg36465

Thank you Mr Zaerc

[jeangot]

After deleting the timed events and reloading, my lights were still turning on at night the next day. So I went back to timed events, and to my surprise, the timed events turning on the lights were back. When I delete them and do a reload router, they are back.
Am I doing something wrong? How can I turn this off permanently? If LMCE is recreating these on each reload, shouldn't there be a way to make this configurable in the light's configuration (whether you want these events to be automatically created or not).
Is it just a matter of telling LMCE that this in an inside area versus outside?

Jean

[tschak909]

UpdateEntArea creates these events automatically, and yes, it is as simple as defining it as an inside versus outside area.

-Thom

[bulek]

Hi,

there is simple trick - don't assign lights to that room. I discovered that acccidentaly... Now I only assign lights to rooms if I want them to be the case for autogenerated scenarios....

I'm not aware of any downside of lights not being assigned...

HTH,

regards,

Bulek.

[golgoj4]

Or, just edit the scenario to do nothing.

[tschak909]

can someone tell me PLEASE? what is SO WRONG with the system taking care of this by itself?

are you people THAT much of control freaks?

-Thom

[freymann]

can someone tell me PLEASE? what is SO WRONG with the system taking care of this by itself?

are you people THAT much of control freaks?

 I don't think it has anything to do being a control freak, but rather personal preference.

 What the automatic scenarios do is great.... for *some* people.

 What I would like is... if we edit a scenario the changes we make should stick and not be reset with a router reload. To me that makes LMCE seem like a control freak. 

[totallymaxed]

can someone tell me PLEASE? what is SO WRONG with the system taking care of this by itself?

are you people THAT much of control freaks?

 I don't think it has anything to do being a control freak, but rather personal preference.

 What the automatic scenarios do is great.... for *some* people.

 What I would like is... if we edit a scenario the changes we make should stick and not be reset with a router reload. To me that makes LMCE seem like a control freak. 

I tend to agree... being able to 'save-as' a modified scenario would make a lot of sense.

Andrew

[mikeybs]

I am running 12.04, and the lights I have assigned to Outdoor rooms are automatically turning on/off at sunset/sunrise just as this post indicates.

Is the only solution still to remove any lights I don't want this behavior for from Outside rooms?

I don't even see an advanced section in my timed events.

Advanced->Configuration->Events seems to take me to an Advanced Events section but I do not see any existing events in there...

Has the ability to even see these automatically generated scenarios been removed?