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Write a value from Dimmer to Percent Display
Posted: Wednesday 28 February 2018 7:45
by Stanislaw
Good morning,
I need a little help with a simple exercise. I would like to rewrite a value from a virtual dimmer to a percentage display. How I'm trying to do that:
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local iDimmer = tonumber (otherdevices['Dimmer']) --Input
local qDimmer = 'Percent' --Output
commandArray = {}
--I'v tried:
qDimmer = iDimmer
--And like that
commandArray[qDimmer] = tonumber(iDimmer)
return commandArray
I created a virtual sensor "Percentage" named "Percent" but it doesn't work.
I'm learning LUA, I understand how to read a value from devices but I don't know how to write values for example to a virtual indicators :/
Is there any tutorial about that? I'm trying to google that but without luck...
Re: Write a value from Dimmer to Percent Display
Posted: Wednesday 28 February 2018 10:16
by freijn
I do not have an answer for you but my plan of attack would be :
make a print statement in your script like :
with the Debug you can then turn it on and off easy
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local Debug
Debug = "YES" -- Turn debugging on ("YES") or off ("NO")
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- header text
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
some code here bla bla bal
if Debug=="YES" then
print( "My text to write in debug file debug: ")
print(">>qDimmer = " ..qDimmer)
end
Re: Write a value from Dimmer to Percent Display
Posted: Wednesday 28 February 2018 13:45
by Stanislaw
freijn thanks for help but I'm watching values of variables by using prDebug:
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function prDebug(sString)
if(bDebug) then
print ( sString )
end
end
Still can't solve the problem....So many hours lost
Re: Write a value from Dimmer to Percent Display
Posted: Wednesday 28 February 2018 14:41
by waaren
dzVents hides most of the complexity of using LUA in combination with domoticz for you and therefore is much easier to learn. This is especial true when starting with programming in this area.
Happy to help if you still have questions after looking at
http://www.domoticz.com/forum/viewtopic ... 59&t=18143
and
http://www.domoticz.com/forum/viewtopic ... 59&t=18674
Re: Write a value from Dimmer to Percent Display
Posted: Thursday 01 March 2018 8:54
by Stanislaw
Thanks
waaren, dzVents looks great and I will learn it for sure. Really good stuff
But for now, i will focus on LUA because I'v got some good code this type that I want to use.
With a simple code like below, I am able to write a value from code to outside variable. Take a look on that masterpiece
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commandArray = {}
print ("All based event fired");
internal_var1 = 5 + 10
print(internal_var1)
commandArray['Variable:outside_var1'] = tostring(internal_var1)
print(internal_var1)
return commandArray
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So now I'm wondering how can I display this variable? What kind of indicator should I use?
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Then next step is to rewrite a value from a dimmer to this outside variable and then visualize it for example in Percentage indicator.
I tried like this but it doesn't work:
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local i_dimmer = otherdevices['Dimmer']
commandArray = {}
print ("All based event fired");
local internal_var1 = i_dimmer
commandArray['Variable:outside_var1'] = tonumber(internal_var1)
print(internal_var1)
return commandArray
Any suggestions?
Re: Write a value from Dimmer to Percent Display
Posted: Thursday 01 March 2018 20:40
by Stanislaw
Sorry that I'm asking for a such basic things but I'm not a software developer, just trying to have some fun
Can somebody tell me just last more thing? If I'm using command:
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commandArray['UpdateDevice'] = '13|0|30'
To write something to a Percentage Display, can I put somehow a value from another variable instead a constatnt "30"?
for example:
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var1 = 55
commandArray['UpdateDevice'] = '13|0|var1'
That code above doesn't work - is there some other way?
---------------EDIT:
OK It's working
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local i_dimmer = otherdevices_svalues['Dimmer']
commandArray = {}
local internal_var1 = i_dimmer
commandArray['UpdateDevice'] = '13|0|'..internal_var1
return commandArray
By that we can write a value from dimmer to indicator (for example Custom Sensor)
Thanks for help