How can i get last state of device ?

[landaisbenj]

Hello.

I seek on french board, but we don't find a solution for my need.

I want to return last state of a device, and no lastupdate...

Like devicechanged table indicating the new state for the device that triggered the device event, can we have a table who contain last state ?

Because if i have a device who juste update to on and on and on and on, i can't do a notif for the first on without having 4 notif.

[zicht]

You Can do a check with Otherdevices['devicenname']

so to avoid what you write :

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if (otherdevices['yourdevicename'] == 'On') then commandArray['yourdevicename']='Off' end

this would only change to off if current state is on

I agree i observed also :
There are sometimes conditions by timing that the script is fired again before commandarray has finished last action so other devices is still on off in the table. But i can live with that as it is not so often that happens (DB update or externa scripts running are causes)

[landaisbenj]

this would only change to off if current state is on

Yes but if my device send a 'on' signal three time ago, commandarray as send 3 time ago too (if i check devicechanged)...

I want to send a commandarray just on the first 'on'...

[jannl]

I think you could use a dummy switch which you set to on the first time only

[Egregius]

In pass2php I store all states in php caches. That way I can compare the new state with the previous state.

[landaisbenj]

Thank you. i look at this

[lonebaggie]

I have written a universal LUA script to link switches together

viewtopic.php?f=38&t=19217

One of the options is to update a User variable ( it can trigger it as well ) with pre-set info

45||19|USwith %n% triggered at %t%

will set User Variable with Idx 19 with "Switch Hall Lights triggered at 12:45:10" when switch 45 triggered. This will also trigger any User variable scripts

Does this help ?