Domoticz

I am using dzventz 2.20

The scriptcommand switchOff().afterMin(10) will turn of the switch after ten minutes.
After 10 minutes i want to send a message (domoticz.notify....)

Is it possible to monitor the countdowntimer(call the status)? (When zero [or any given moment between 10 and zero] the message will be send)

thanks for your help

regards
paul

In the upcoming 2.4 you should be able to do domoticz.notify().afterMin(10).

Dannybloe,

thanks for your reply, but ...in the meantime... is it possible to monitor the timer?

if answer == 'yes' then
please provide me with the necessary details
else
I have to wait until?
end

regards
Paul

Nope, you can't unfortunately.

@dannybloe post 2.4 is it possible to do .afterMin() and .cancelQueuedCommands() on domoticz.notify() ?

Regards,
Wob

interesting question.
I am just at the same stage.

I switch a device on with the .switchOn().forMin(x) command and wanted to get a notification after those x minutes when the device switches off.

Using domoticz BETA 3.9390 and tried to use .afterMin() on the .notify command. But I got this error in the log:
" dzVents: Error (2.4.1): ...r/scripts/dzVents/generated_scripts/test.lua:14: attempt to index a nil value "

Line 14 in my script is: "domoticz.notify('test', 'after one min <<<<<').afterMin(1)"

Any hints on that?

If that is not possible on the .notify command, I would have to try to do something else.

Thanks a lot for any help.

dannybloe wrote: ↑Saturday 20 January 2018 8:05 In the upcoming 2.4 you should be able to do domoticz.notify().afterMin(10).

Hi Dannybloe,

Has this made it in yet? Or should we just look at using a switch to delay the action?

Thanks,
Wob

Mm.. I see it is not in there. I've put it on my list (again?). Sorry about that.

Maybe I misunderstood:
Why don't you send a notification when the device turned Off ?
...
elseif device.state == 'Off' then
domoticz.notify('Device Off'...etc.)

dannybloe wrote: ↑Wednesday 16 May 2018 7:51 Mm.. I see it is not in there. I've put it on my list (again?). Sorry about that.

Thanks

Sparks wrote: ↑Wednesday 16 May 2018 12:44 Maybe I misunderstood:
Why don't you send a notification when the device turned Off ?
...
elseif device.state == 'Off' then
domoticz.notify('Device Off'...etc.)

I can't speak for the others, what I want to do is delay the message in case the switch returns to its existing state.

For Example, only send a message if the door is left open for more than 5 min, so I would do a domoticz.notify().afterMin(5) as part of the open detection, then if the door closes run a domoticz.notify().cancelQueuedCommands().

I currently have some door\window detection for when my AC is on, but it a bit annoying when I am just opening the door to put something outside etc.

I could do all this with an intermediate switch, have it delayed on\off and it triggers the message, but doing it directly with .notify() would be neater.

Or use a timer in where you check if the lastUpdate of the switch is older than 5 minutes and then send the notification.

dannybloe wrote:Or use a timer in where you check if the lastUpdate of the switch is older than 5 minutes and then send the notification.

The issue with that approach is I need the script to run at time intervals, at the moment it is called by changes in the door/window contacts, and AC switches. So called much less often, maybe if I use a dummy switch that I delay on/off and have it call the script again, but I would need more script changes for it.

I am just thinking now that the .aftermin method would have a drawback of it could cancel any notification, not just this scripts notification.

It's a simple concept, only send a message if the door/switch remains open/on for X, but I keep finding floors with my ideas, I should just pick one.

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Would be great if that might be added.
Solved my issue already by catching the automatic off-switching and then send notification.

@dannybloe: Thanks A LOT for dzVents! Great work! makes automation a lot easier.

BTW - any function available in dzVents to put the execute function into a ‚sleep‘ for a certain time? I mean something other then a looong ‚for loop‘

Regards...

OK, so I have added a

'if (device.lastUpdate.minutesAgo >= 5) then" (device being my door\windows)

check around my notification send, just before that I am switching on a dummy delay switch, this switch is set to turn off after a 300 second delay (5 min) and that device is included in my trigger devices.

this is all inside a foreach loop that checks all my doors\windows.

End result is that the script with retrigger every 5 min while a door\window is open, and as long as one of those openings have been open for more than 5 min a message will be sent.

It Tests ok, I'll see how it goes in the wild.

Thanks for the ideas.

Wob76 wrote: ↑Thursday 17 May 2018 3:48
.... , just before that I am switching on a dummy delay switch, this switch is set to turn off after a 300 second delay (5 min) and that device is included in my trigger devices.

Just curious; did you consider the use of a user variable instead of a dummy delay switch ?
Would be nice if you could share your result with us.

The advantage of the switch in this case is it I can create it to be momentary, with a configurable time, saves me using any dzVents queues.

I had previously used variables for this kind of thing, but I use Dashitz and wanted to used the states of these variables to shade buttons depending on state, it can't read variables, so I moved to switches, now I just do it for anything that is a simple toggle.

I'll give it a few days to ensure I don't have any bugs, then I'll post, my script is doing a bunch of checks related to my AC, might be a bit hard to just post snippets, not sure if the rest of it is much use, but I'll prob just post the lot.

I did a different approach for my "Motion Detection" script, I use wifi presence to detect when someone (a phone) is home, I then had a script detect if a door\window moves while the house is "empty" this works quite well, but at times the phone connects after the door has been opened, so I wanted to delay that to recheck if someone gets home. Still need to see how long a delay I will need. The loop wouldn't work for this, as it would keep triggering if I had left a window open, i only want it to trigger on a device change, so I just have a few nested ifs, I'll post it also after some testing.

Thx for your detailed and clear answer. Looking forward to have a peek at your scripts. Always nice to see how other forum members approach these kind of "small puzzles".

Still early days, but so far so good. Since this is a little off topic I started a new thread, my scripts are included.

viewtopic.php?f=59&t=23492

Hi,

I have a script for turning my PC on/off with a toggle switch. Sometimes when my PC is on, I accidentally push the switch and my PC is turned off after 3 min. Is there a possibility to reset this action, by pressing the switch again?

Piacco wrote: ↑Tuesday 06 July 2021 8:46 Hi,

I have a script for turning my PC on/off with a toggle switch. Sometimes when my PC is on, I accidentally push the switch and my PC is turned off after 3 min. Is there a possibility to reset this action, by pressing the switch again?

You have to use function dz.devices('PC-2').cancelQueuedCommands()
The difficult thing is to decide how to know that it has to be canceled. Perhaps make another dummy switch and have that cancel the Queue.