Domoticz

Hi all,

Recently I Installed a KaKu Dusk sensor which I want to use between a specific time so I thought by using a Blocky script this could easily be fixed. (Unfortunately I have no knowledge of using the other scripting possiblities).
Basically I try to achieve that between 9:00 AM and 18:00 PM If the KaKu sensor is switched on then my light should be turned on for 5 minutes.
Next if the Kaku switch is off then the lights should be turned off.

But after the Sensor is activated nothing happens, I only see some error messages in the log which I can't explain, perhaps one of you can tell me what is wrong with the used script.

Many thanks for your help in advance.

schijndela wrote: Sunday 12 July 2020 10:24 But after the Sensor is activated nothing happens, I only see some error messages in the log which I can't explain, perhaps one of you can tell me what is wrong with the used script.

You put the condition checks for state of Schemerschakelaar in the wrong blocks.
I also think the explicit switching Off is not needed as the light will already be switched Off after 5 minutes.

Try first using
and if that works try again without the elseif part.

Hi Waaren,

Thanks for your reply, you mention that I put the check for the schemerschakelaar in the wrong Blocks, could you please explain what you mean.
Did you meant that I first need begin with time in the If statement and than end it with the Schemerschakelaar?
I modified the switching off as you suggested, so now the Blocky looks like this.

I think I found the solution.
After modifying the Blockly Script and setting the time for just 1 minute for testing it worked.

schijndela wrote: Sunday 12 July 2020 11:49 Could you please explain what you mean.

You coded 'Schemerschakelaar = ' as one block and ' "On" and "time > 09:00 and time < 18:00" ' as another block

It should be

' Schemerschakelaar = "On" ' as one block and 'time > 09:00 and time < 18:00' as the other block

Also there are a lot of posts on this forum warning against using nested if else in Blockly.

Are your sure this is going to work?
If (schemerschakelaar = 'On') and (Time > 9 and Time < 18)
Do schemerschakelaar = 'On' for X minutes.

When sunset is before 18 the light goes On, then it goes Off after X minutes, but will go On at the same time because schemerschakelaar is still Off.
Or am I wrong here?

Hi Waaren,

For some reason it isn't working, the lights go on even when the schemerschakelaar is off!?
No idea how this is possible if I take a look at the log file from the schemerschakelaar it doesn't mention an entry for switching on.
Apparently there are more reason why it don't work as I hoped

For my lights I'm using a Timer which switches the lights on after sunset, My goal was to use the sunset and sunrise option in Blockly so that's why i'm using the time > 09:11 and < 18:00 option in my test.

schijndela wrote: Tuesday 14 July 2020 19:36 For some reason it isn't working, the lights go on even when the schemerschakelaar is off!?

I don't know how your current Blockly looks like so kind of hard to comment or advise

This is how my currently Blockly looks like.
But randomly the lights go on for a minute while the switch "Schemerschakelaar" is off.

I modified the If statement and replaced "and" with "or" sunrise and sunset can't be a the same time.
So, with the modified statement the lights go on for one minute and than go off for one minute..

schijndela wrote: Friday 17 July 2020 19:15 This is how my currently Blockly looks like.
But randomly the lights go on for a minute while the switch "Schemerschakelaar" is off.

Nested if (else) blocks are not supported in domoticz Blockly

Try “If time>sunrise or time<sunset and schemerschakelaar=on”
Set enz.

You mean like this.
Unfortunately still the same. also with this setting one minute on one minute off.

you have PB

Hi All,

All my thanks go to Treve (Evert) he helped me out greatly, apparently by creating an additional Dummy switch the problem can be solved in Blockly.
I will attach a screenshot of the Blockly script which now works for me.
Next step is to fine-tune it a bit further