set device "Off Delay" value with DzVents

[ravaoo]

I would like to set device "Off Delay" value with DzVents script
Why?

Normaly we want the lights go off automaticly after 20 min (if there is no movement). Sometimes we want this only after 2 hours of no movement. It is nice weather, we are in the garden and we don't want come in in a dark house.

I made a dummy switch "stay longer on" and i want to set the vallue of some lights to 7200 delay when turned on and to 1200 when turned off.

Is it posible, and if so, how?

Thanks for helping

[waltervl]

You have to script this totally with dzvents. You cannot override the default switch off setting with dzVents.

[ravaoo]

Thanks Waltervl, again

So i have to switch off the device in dzvents and not by device settings. There is no way te set the default switch off settings with script?

[waltervl]

No, there is also no documented option to set the off delay with Domoticz API. You can try to find it through the browser session with developer help F12
Then you could also switch this directly as http action commands on your dummy switch "stay longer on". No need to do it through dzvents.

[lost]

Normaly we want the lights go off automaticly after 20 min (if there is no movement). Sometimes we want this only after 2 hours of no movement. It is nice weather, we are in the garden and we don't want come in in a dark house.

For this, I would just add another motion sensor close to the home/garden door (if there is no good old physical switch light at the right place) able to catch me when I come in? IMO better that keeping light on for hours and bugs would not be attracted inside (or ready to enter as soon I open the bay window!).

When I have very specific needs for a SW that have many years of development, I always think "there may be a better idea?"!

[BartSr]

just a brainwave
there is a generic example in Lua for turning of the light xx sec. after movement.
Create a uservar which override the delay-time of the script.
A normal dummyswitch might set/reset the uservar so changing to extended delay.

[waltervl]

Did some testing and found the API call. It are the values for a switch (could have different meanings for other type of devices) in below mention API call:
addjvalue=ONDELAY
addjvalue2=OFFDELAY

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http://IP:Port/json.htm?type=command&param=setused&used=true&addjvalue=ONDELAY&addjvalue2=OFFDELAY&idx=IDX

So in your dummy switch you can set the On and Off (change all values) to the correct ones so it changes the delay values for the wanted light device (IDX)

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a real link would look like below to set off delay to 300 seconds and on delay is 0 for device 84

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http://192.165.2.35:8080/json.htm?type=command&param=setused&used=true&addjvalue=0&addjvalue2=300&idx=84

[madpatrick]

it is not that difficult to do this with Dzvents
I've something similar.

Maybe this helps as a start

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       if PIR.lastUpdate.secondsAgo > 1800 and (Party_Switch.state == 'Off') then
                light.switchOff().afterMin(10)
                dz.log(PIR.name .. ' update : ' .. PIR.lastUpdate.secondsAgo .. ' seconden geleden',dz.LOG_STATUS)
                dz.log(light.name .. ' schakelt UIT of is al UIT en ' .. Party_Switch.name .. ' is ' .. Party_Switch.state ,dz.LOG_STATUS)
                elseif  PIR.lastUpdate.secondsAgo > 1800 and (Party_Switch.state == 'On')
                light.switchOff().afterMin(120)
                dz.log(light.name .. ' schakelt UIT of is al UIT en ' .. Party_Switch.name .. ' is ' .. Party_Switch.state ,dz.LOG_STATUS)
                end