[Blockly] Are there really no months under 'time' to select on?

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[Blockly] Are there really no months under 'time' to select on?

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Maybe I have overlooked something but I see only the days of the week to select and not the months.
It would be very disappointment for me if you can't select those.
In December making the garden light switch on/off differently. Also in summer time, you can canceled that some light to go on.
You can used the timers but there sometime not flexible enough.

For now the garden is under construction so not all the lights are in it's places. Some Christmas light are easily to hook on.
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Re: [Blockly] Are there really no months under 'time' to select on?

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Start scripting (LUA, PHP, Python, Bash,...) and you can do anything you can imagine.
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Re: [Blockly] Are there really no months under 'time' to select on?

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For the moment I have enough the learn on RPi3 with Linux and Domoticz for normal use. ;)
Making a backup of the RPi sd-card for instants is a priority one.

For the "where put I those scrips" question I become :oops: again.
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KroontjesPen wrote:Maybe I have overlooked something but I see only the days of the week to select and not the months.
It would be very disappointment for me if you can't select those.
In December making the garden light switch on/off differently. Also in summer time, you can canceled that some light to go on.
You can used the timers but there sometime not flexible enough.

For now the garden is under construction so not all the lights are in it's places. Some Christmas light are easily to hook on.
A agree with Egregius, however how about some 'fake' dummy switches for holidays/winter-summer etc. According to wkki about blockly and some if then else you can specify detect which are on abf off and switch accordingly. Exactly like you would with scripting. Without the necessity of planning/timers setup on those fake switches.

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With a lot of tricks it would be possible to get something, I think. That way Domoticz is not for simple users.
Even for timers there are no settings for months. That ad least is in the KaKu/COCO/Trust ICS-1000 to find. *
It shall take weeks to find how to do this with 'fake' dummy switches or scripts.
When I saw the Lua explanation how to exchange data to Domoticz, the shivers game over me.

Maybe I expected to much from the basic state of Domoticz and heave to look for something else. Still going for the ICS-2000?

* Edit
Sorry that is not true. There are some month and yearly possibility's. :oops:
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I thought so, just seen recently after the stable upgrade ;-) And will make it easier for you... Don't like ics1000 and the newer 2000... Moving to HUE and later X10 or Zwave, radiotor valves need some controls remotely :-)

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You can under 'timer' months still not handle like you can do with weekdays.
If you scripting on a daily, or at least weekly, bases than is not a problem. It would I think to take me months to understand Domoticz + Lua.
Starting with: how to find and working with 'fake' dummy switches.

The looks of Domoticz is very good. Also the flexibility with devices and rooms is nice.
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I have looked at the timer options. A bit more elegance in the month/weekday yearly/weekday would be handy for sure. To create a fine control you can create multiple switches named after month and schedule on/off at first day and last day. It gives you more switches to check but also gives you more controle of it...

However mentioned earlier scripts (started from cron/at schedulers) give you more control, like crontab with the following line: 1 0 1 11 * /home/pi/scripts/november_task.sh (1 minute past 00 hour first day of month november on every weekday)

So start fiddling around, write down your plan, build task(s) and after that logic/schedule around these tasks.


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