dzVents and trigger of GPIO for max 250mSec [Solved]

[imdos]

Is it possible to trigger a hardware (sysfs GPIO) connected remote control only for a short period of time.

I now have added the sysfs underneath hardware and get the exposed ports that I have configured as a regular on/off switch.

I only managed to switch off the device after 1 sec in the GUI itself. However I see the LED on the remote flashing at least 4 times.

But there is no .forMilliSec or something similar. Would this work in dzVents or in Python?

[waaren]

But there is no .forMilliSec or something similar. Would this work in dzVents or in Python?

In dzVents you can do a switchOff().afterSec(0.250)

[imdos]

Great; that works, I had to play with the timeout and changed it to 150 though.

Now I get it; while looking at the Availability this is only applicable for afterXXX.

Next problem however is that it doesn't work inside a switchselector with GPIOx.switchOn() and direcly underneath the GPIOx.switchOff().afterSec(0.250).

Nor does it work when I have the switchselector only with GPIOx.switchOn() and in a separate script (the original for the GPIO itself with a trigger of GPIOx) the GPIOx.switchOff().afterSec(0.250).

[imdos]

Here is an update to my current script. I am able to turn it off for .150 milliseconds, after the switchOn and it appears to only press the button once.

But how can I use this in a switchselector or have its state show the right value if I am unable to use it as a simple button.

So the bold code does work; but the italic marked code doesn't work (those are my tests and aren't correctly defined right now).

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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cat /domoticz/scripts/dzVents/scripts/somfy-off.lua
--[[
Somfy afstandsbediening bedienen via GPIO.
Voorwaarde is wel dat de GPIO poorten worden vrijgegeven,
voordat Domoticz is gestart.
Deze worden geopend via setup-GPIO.sh
Daarnaast moeten de HW-=> GPIO worden vertaald naar de acties.
https://www.domoticz.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=29773
switchOff().afterSec(0.250)
]]--
    return {
        active = true,
        on = {
                devices = {
                        -- 'Somfy' -- de switch selector
                        ('somfy-test-oranje')-- , 'somfy-test-geel', 'somfy-test-groen')
                }
        },
logging = {
        level = domoticz.LOG_INFO,
        marker = "Somfy Control v2"
        },
        execute = function(domoticz, somfyctl)
        local beneden = domoticz.devices('somfy-test-oranje')
        local my1 = domoticz.devices('somfy-test-geel')
        local boven = domoticz.devices('somfy-test-groen')
[b]        if (somfyctl.active)then
        --state == 'Off' )then
                -- switch selector op: My
        --      my1.switchOn()
        beneden.switchOff().afterSec(0.150)
                domoticz.log('Somfy naar beneden', domoticz.LOG_INFO)
        end[/b]
        --[[
[i]        elseif (somfyctl.state == 'boven' )then
                -- switch selector op: boven
                boven.switchOn()
                boven.switchOff().afterSec(0.250)
                domoticz.log('Somfy naar boven', domoticz.LOG_INFO)
        elseif (somfyctl.state == 'beneden' )then
                -- switch selector op: beneden
                beneden.switchOn().forSec(0.250)
                domoticz.log('Somfy naar beneden', domoticz.LOG_INFO)
        end[/i]
        ]]--
    end
}

[waaren]

But how can I use this in a switchselector or have its state show the right value if I am unable to use it as a simple button.

did you try to code it like below ?

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beneden.switchOn(),afterSec(0.5)
beneden.switchOff().afterSec(0.750)

[imdos]

Thanks; this works like a charm. Why I haven't tought about that myself.

dzVents code is solved.

Now I have to find out why the LED flashes for a while when I enable the GPIO ports. This is done prior to loading Domoticz, with the following:

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sudo echo 17 > /sys/class/gpio/export ; sleep 0.2; sudo echo out > /sys/class/gpio/gpio17/direction ;  sleep 0.2; sudo echo 0 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio17/value ; gpio exports

As soon as I set the direction of the GPIO pin to out the LED flashes for 5 seconds at least.