Domoticz

Posted: **Thursday 04 February 2021 23:00**

Hello everyone.
I would like to achieve something like this in domoticz:
I turn on the switch / socket and then a window pops up with a choice of time from 1h to 24h.
I set it and after the selected time the socket is turned off.

What's the matter: I have an online socket ready and sometimes I have to charge:
-car for a child - 8h,
-powerbank for headphones - 2h,
-toothbrush - 14h,
and more ..

Someone can guide me?

Posted: **Friday 05 February 2021 0:20**

11master wrote: ↑Thursday 04 February 2021 23:00 I would like to achieve something like this in domoticz:
I turn on the switch / socket and then a window pops up with a choice of time from 1h to 24h.

I don't think this is possible in standard domoticz.
You can do something that gets close to this by creating a virtual selector with the various labels (headphones, toothbrush, car, etc.. ) and use a script to power the socket for the set time based on the selector level chosen.

in dzVents it could look like below script
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When not yet familiar with dzVents please start with reading Get started Before implementing (~ 5 minutes). Special attention please for "In Domoticz go to Setup > Settings > Other and in the section EventSystem make sure the checkbox 'dzVents enabled' is checked. Also make sure that in the Security section in the settings you allow 127.0.0.1 to not need a password. dzVents uses that port to send certain commands to Domoticz. Finally make sure you have set your current location in Setup > Settings > System > Location, otherwise there is no way to determine nighttime/daytime state."
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return
{
    on =
    {
        devices =
        {
            'socketTimer', -- change to name of selector
        },
    },

    logging =
    {
        level = domoticz.LOG_DEBUG, -- change to domoticz.LOG_ERROR when script is clock
        marker = 'socket timer',
    },

    execute = function(dz, item)
        dz.log('Selector ' .. item.name .. ' set to ' .. item.levelName, dz.LOG_DEBUG)

        if item.levelName ~= 'Off' then

            local socket = dz.devices('socket') -- change to name of socket / switch

            choices =
            {   -- levelName  set time in minutes
                Toothbrush  = 840,
                Car         = 480,
                Powerbank   = 120,
            }

            if choices[item.levelName] then
                socket.switchOn()
                socket.switchOff().afterMin(item.levelName)
                -- socket.switchOff().afterSec(choices[item.levelName] / 30) -- Test only
            else
                dz.log(item.levelName ..' is unknown; no time set', dz.LOG_ERROR)
            end

            item.switchSelector('Off').afterSec(2).silent() -- reset selector
        end
    end
}

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Posted: **Friday 05 February 2021 21:27**

Thanks for the answer. I thought of creating as many switches as tasks, plugging them into one socket and that's it. But your solution is much more elegant.
I'm just surprised that none of the scripts can use pop ups - maybe in the future

I'm getting to reading about dzVents and testing the script. Thanks.

Added:

Summarizing. I spent almost 2 hours learning it all. There is an error in the script:
It is: "afterMin (item.levelName)"
should be: "afterMin (choices [item.levelName])"

At least I learned something new. Thanks!

Added:
I changed your script a bit by moving the selector disable fragment right after socket.switchOff (). Now you can immediately see what is happening with the socket.

Can I know where you got the extra icons from?

Posted: **Sunday 07 February 2021 13:23**

waaren wrote: ↑Friday 05 February 2021 0:20 I don't think this is possible in standard domoticz.
You can do something that gets close to this by creating a virtual selector with the various labels (headphones, toothbrush, car, etc.. ) and use a script to power the socket for the set time based on the selector level chosen.

in dzVents it could look like below script

hello waaren,

your idea is realy great. This is what I made out of it, but I got an error

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return {
	on = {
		 devices = {'TimerTV_DG'}
	     },
	logging = {level = domoticz.LOG_DEBUG,
	           marker = 'TV_DG_Timer',
	          },
	execute = function(dz, item)
        local tvdg = dz.devices('TV DG')

        tvdg.cancelQueuedCommands()
        if item.levelName ~= 'Off' then
            choices =
            {   30Min =  30,
                45Min =  45,
                60Min =  60,
                90Min =  90,
                2h    = 120,
                3h    = 240,
            }

            if choices[item.levelName] then
                --tvdg.switchOn()
                --tvdg.switchOff().afterMin(choices[item.levelName])
                dz.log('TV im DG freigeschlatet für ' .. item.levelName)
            else
                --tvdg.switchOn()
                dz.log('TV im DG freigeschlatet ohne Limit')
            end
        else
            --tvdg.switchOff()
            dz.log('TV im DG ausgeschaltet')
        end
    end
}

As soon as I select something, whis error appears:

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2021-02-07 13:12:05.970 Error: dzVents: Error: (3.0.2) error loading module 'TV_DG_Timer' from file '/home/pi/domoticz/scripts/dzVents/generated_scripts/TV_DG_Timer.lua':
2021-02-07 13:12:05.970 ...moticz/scripts/dzVents/generated_scripts/TV_DG_Timer.lua:14: '}' expected near 'Min'

What am I doing wrong?

thx,
zavjah

Posted: **Sunday 07 February 2021 14:48**

zavjah wrote: ↑Sunday 07 February 2021 13:23 What am I doing wrong?

A variable or table key cannot start with a number in Lua (and dzVents = Lua)
A workaround is to force these table keys to be string literals using below syntax

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            choices =
            {   
                ['30Min'] =  30,
                ['45Min'] =  45,
                ['60Min'] =  60,
                ['90Min'] =  90,
                ['2h']    = 120,
                ['3h']    = 240,
            }

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