Domoticz

Hi, I am using dzVents (great piece of software!) with my domoticz controller to control a set of MySensors devices. I have several RGBW lights in my bed room and a light sensors.
Currently I can only manually (or via an amazon echo) control these lights. As I am using them nearly every day once it gets dark (which is already before sunset!) I really want to automate this.

The idea would be to automatically turn on the lights based on a certain light level send from the sensor (even better version would be to do it in smaller steps). The problem though is that at a certain point I want to go to sleep and the lights have to stay off then. Any idea how to (logically) structure this so that I can create a script for this?

One option could be to add a virtual switch 'lights -off' in a blockly statement. You can switch this when you go to sleep and switch it back when it is light again or at timer st 10.00.

Not sure if you know this but:
I am using 10 min after sundown as a switch on. It adjusts perfectly during the summer.
Only disadvantage on a dark clouds day, it could be a few min earlier..

Thanks for your help. For now I am using a virtual switch to indicate when the script should to its work.

I use a virtual LUX sensor created with the Wunderground plugin. Then i wrote a script that looks at the outside light (when below 2000lux then) also look at te time (when it`s >16 hour) and look at a variable (when lightonceaday = 0) when all of this is true then turn on the lights (and make the uservariable lightonceaday = 1 (to prevent switching the light more then once a day). Don`t forget the reset this uservariable to 0 on 3 oclock in the midday or something like that.

Could you post the script? For the outside lamp I now use the 'on before sunset' and 'off at sunrise' in the device settings, but if it visibility gets low I want it to turn on as well.

(Im not a scripter, so if it involves heavy scripting, then I need to forget it)

mm perhaps wait untill dzevent is build in domoticz..
new version should be work better then the v1

EdKo66 wrote:Could you post the script? For the outside lamp I now use the 'on before sunset' and 'off at sunrise' in the device settings, but if it visibility gets low I want it to turn on as well.

(Im not a scripter, so if it involves heavy scripting, then I need to forget it)

Do you have already a outside lux sensor created from the "weather hardware" ? It involves some scripting skills and some trial and error to get things functioning the way you want sometimes but that`s way i learned it also

I am using the following blocky /lua-scripts:

To determine the lux value with the weatherunderground api https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Real-time ... _sensor.... I am also working on a mysensor project to measure my own lux-value, because some rooms with no windows or just one window need light before rooms with a lot of windows.

The following to determine if it is already dark And another blocky to turn on lights. I currently looking into the feature to turn on the lights gradually

Now, if someone creates a Blockly to dzVents converter, that would be awesome (and I don't think very hard to do).

Hi There,

I have made a LUA script to do exactly what you want.
viewtopic.php?f=38&t=14237
good luck and have fun with it.

Jan