DzVents: Make rooms available as device groups Topic is solved

[rrozema]

Domoticz has the ability to assign your devices to a room. I can not find however how to find the devices in a particular room from DzVents. Can we have the rooms available as device groups from the domotiz object? This enables us to create scripts that automatically operate on all devices in a particular room.

[Ries]

That wuld be nice.

[dannybloe]

Yes, it is already on my list. Maybe for 2.5.

[waaren]

Domoticz has the ability to assign your devices to a room. I can not find however how to find the devices in a particular room from DzVents. Can we have the rooms available as device groups from the domotiz object? This enables us to create scripts that automatically operate on all devices in a particular room.

@rrozema,

as workaround until this is implemented you can add all devices in a room to a domoticz group and loop through these devices with

domoticz.groups("group name").devices().forEach(function(device) -- loop over all devices in this group;

[rrozema]

Domoticz has the ability to assign your devices to a room. I can not find however how to find the devices in a particular room from DzVents. Can we have the rooms available as device groups from the domotiz object? This enables us to create scripts that automatically operate on all devices in a particular room.

@rrozema,

as workaround until this is implemented you can add all devices in a room to a domoticz group and loop through these devices with

domoticz.groups("group name").devices().forEach(function(device) -- loop over all devices in this group;

Yes thank you for the suggestion, I use many groups already. I was however trying to avoid having to maintain all these groups: I have, like many people will have done, assigned my devices into rooms to show them correctly on the floorplan. I asked for this addition to DzVents to take advantage of these room assignments.

For example: by creating a generic script that periodically goes over all rooms, looking for rooms that have lights that are on and have one or more motion sensor(s). If there has been no motion in the room the last, say 5 minutes, I can switch off the light(s) in that room automatically. I don't need to hard code any motion sensors or switches, just add the script and it works, even if a motion sensor or a a light is added or removed. All you need to do is add it to the correct room, which you would do already for showing it correctly in the floorplan.

Note to Danny: I think, once this is added, the next question will be how to identify which devices are motion sensors, lights, etc. I'm currently using json in each device's description fields to configure settings per device. Maybe you've got some good ideas for this too?

[dannybloe]

All the type information is already on the Device object so that should not be so hard.

[rrozema]

All the type information is already on the Device object so that should not be so hard.

I may be in need of some assistance then setting up device types. For all my motion sensors (most of them are cheap neo coolcam z-wave pir devices, but i also have more expensive aeotec) are detected as normal on/off switches. If I try to switch such a device manually, domoticz responds that the device does not support being switched. So domoticz knows it is a device that can't be switched, but i haven't found a way to distinguish these sensors from switches yet.

[snellejellep]

you can use a prefix in the name of the devices like lampxxx or PIRxxx that is what i use and then with a wildcard like PIR* you can cycle trough them

[dannybloe]

Or use the description field and use that in your scripts.

[rrozema]

you can use a prefix in the name of the devices like lampxxx or PIRxxx that is what i use and then with a wildcard like PIR* you can cycle trough them

Yes, that is a workaround. And i do things like that. However, dzvents exposes all sorts of attributes for each device and yet none of these can be used to identify a switch from a motion sensor? I don't think that's the way it was intended.

[Ries]

Yes, it is already on my list. Maybe for 2.5.

Nice! Thank you.
I already use the group approach, but the room approach seems more appropriate.

I also encoutered the type problem. Seems to be another feature request, I see naming conventions as a workaround too.

[snellejellep]

you can use a prefix in the name of the devices like lampxxx or PIRxxx that is what i use and then with a wildcard like PIR* you can cycle trough them

Yes, that is a workaround. And i do things like that. However, dzvents exposes all sorts of attributes for each device and yet none of these can be used to identify a switch from a motion sensor? I don't think that's the way it was intended.

cant you set the switch type to motion sensor like the image above?

[Ries]

cant you set the switch type to motion sensor like the image above?

It doenst show like that in the dzvents device object. It is a switch there.

Also the icon type doenst always reflect (in dzvents) the icon chosen.

[waaren]

In my environment a motion sensor is identified by dzVents as motion sensor. So I expect if it is not in your environment that it is something at another level than dzVents's

....
if trigger.switchType == "Motion Sensor"then
print("XMotion triggered: " .. trigger.name)
end

2018-06-18 15:16:40.710 Status: dzVents: XMotion triggered: XMotion-1

[rrozema]

I agree. It is probably not dzVents making these devices look all the same, that's why I said I am in need of some guidance here. To illustrate the problem, here's my device list filtered on devices that have 'motion' in their name:

As you can see my motion devices are all listed as 'Light/Switch' and SubType 'Switch'. I have yet to find how I can change these values. They automatically assigned when the device is first detected. In the properties in the Switches tab there is an option to select 'Switch Type:', which can be set to 'Motion Sensor', but that value can't be found in the properties dzVents exposes for the device:

Edit: Forum code can't make the attachments show up on the correct place. please see the attachments for the pictures.

[waaren]

I agree. It is probably not dzVents making these devices look all the same, that's why I said I am in need of some guidance here. To illustrate the problem, here's my device list filtered on devices that have 'motion' in their name:

As you can see my motion devices are all listed as 'Light/Switch' and SubType 'Switch'. I have yet to find how I can change these values. They automatically assigned when the device is first detected. In the properties in the Switches tab there is an option to select 'Switch Type:', which can be set to 'Motion Sensor', but that value can't be found in the properties dzVents exposes for the device:

Edit: Forum code can't make the attachments show up on the correct place. please see the attachments for the pictures.

Sorry but still don't get what your problem is with the identification of these sensors in dzVents. I see the same as you do in the devices tab but dzVents is able to identify the switchtype property correctly.
The output of this dzVents code snippet

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           dz.devices().forEach(function(device)
                if string.find(device.name,"otion")  or string.find(device.name,"eging")  then
                    print(" device ID: " .. device.idx .. " ===>>> " .. 
                            device.name .." ===>>> type: " .. 
                            tostring(device.switchType))
                end
            end)
            

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2018-06-18 19:15:11.955  Status: dzVents:  device ID: 30 ===>>> Trap bewegingsmelder ===>>> type: Motion Sensor
2018-06-18 19:15:11.956  Status: dzVents:  device ID: 32 ===>>> WC bewegingsmelder ===>>> type: Motion Sensor
2018-06-18 19:15:12.074  Status: dzVents:  device ID: 500 ===>>> Beweging buiten ===>>> type: Motion Sensor
2018-06-18 19:15:12.077  Status: dzVents:  device ID: 508 ===>>> Homewizard - Beweging buiten ===>>> type: Motion Sensor
2018-06-18 19:15:12.101  Status: dzVents:  device ID: 582 ===>>> XMotion-1 ===>>> type: Motion Sensor
2018-06-18 19:15:12.102  Status: dzVents:  device ID: 583 ===>>> XMotion-2 ===>>> type: Motion Sensor
2018-06-18 19:15:12.114  Status: dzVents:  device ID: 657 ===>>> XMotion-3 ===>>> type: Motion Sensor
2018-06-18 19:15:12.116  Status: dzVents:  device ID: 670 ===>>> Beweging kantoor ===>>> type: Motion Sensor
2018-06-18 19:15:12.146  Status: dzVents:  device ID: 794 ===>>> X-Motion zolderhok lux ===>>> type: On/Off  // combined Motion sensor / lux device
2018-06-18 19:15:12.147  Status: dzVents:  device ID: 795 ===>>> XMotion Zolderhok ===>>> type: Motion Sensor
2018-06-18 19:15:12.148  Status: dzVents:  device ID: 796 ===>>> X-Motion6 lux ===>>> type: On/Off     // combined Motion sensor / lux device
2018-06-18 19:15:12.149  Status: dzVents:  device ID: 797 ===>>> XMotion-6 ===>>> type: Motion Sensor

[rrozema]

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           dz.devices().forEach(function(device)
                if string.find(device.name,"otion")  or string.find(device.name,"eging")  then
                    print(" device ID: " .. device.idx .. " ===>>> " .. 
                            device.name .." ===>>> type: " .. 
                            tostring(device.switchType))
                end
            end)
            

Thank you. I don't know how I missed this. You are absolutely right, device.switchType will do the trick.

[Ries]

How do you differentiate between lux devices that way? As well as computers or phone

[waaren]

How do you differentiate between lux devices that way? As well as computers or phone

Lux devices can be identified by their deviceType or deviceSubType. Please elaborate on the computers or phone. What kind of devices are they ? How are they defined ?