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Schedule when holiday timer plan is active

Posted: Wednesday 09 December 2015 15:45
by Ingmar
Since a couple of days I'm looking into the holiday vs default timer mode. I think that the option is great and works good.

What I'm missing though, is a date/period you can enter for the holiday timer mode to be active. E.g. I'm now thinking about setting timers for the holiday, but I have to remember that activating the holiday mode is the last thing i need to do before actually leaving the house. So if I forget, my holiday timers aren't set.

:idea:
It would be perfect if you can set a date/time to activate holiday mode, and a date/time to deactivate holiday mode (and thus switch back to default mode). That way I can sort the timers for the holiday now already, and I don't need to worry that I might forget to change the setting before leaving the house.

Does anyone recognize this? Or is there already a handy workaround? I couldn't find anything with the search though...

Re: Schedule when holiday timer plan is active

Posted: Wednesday 09 December 2015 20:23
by gizmocuz
then you login remotely, and set the holiday mode (or normal mode)

Re: Schedule when holiday timer plan is active

Posted: Wednesday 09 December 2015 20:25
by Ingmar
Yeah but I can't and don't want to be able to login from outside my network :mrgreen:

Re: Schedule when holiday timer plan is active

Posted: Monday 14 December 2015 21:47
by deennoo
Dear G

What we need :

When using great Google calendar lua script is : when it's write on holyday, set timer off a kind of groupe predfine before (bathroom heating, ventilation, jaccuzi light, but keep champagne cold, keep jacuzzi pump, prépare hotwater after travelling.

"Just" a mark on each planer to able and unable the ensemble, device by device and a way to drive it with LUA or JSON update or blocky.

Please please please

Re: Schedule when holiday timer plan is active

Posted: Monday 14 December 2015 22:04
by Egregius
I think you can do whatever you want with Google calendar. Took a look at their API yesterday and 90 minutes later I had it fully functional for switches, dimmers (set %, wake- and sleep) and setpoints

Re: Schedule when holiday timer plan is active

Posted: Monday 14 December 2015 22:19
by deennoo
I got baak'ones, on/off dim is OK, i'm driving an house at 300km from me and me familly with it,

He allow lot of variables but dont fins a way to just active or desactive timers for a device did you ?

Re: Schedule when holiday timer plan is active

Posted: Monday 14 December 2015 23:34
by Egregius
All my schedules are in one PHP script and depends on two virtual switches: home and sleep.
Now, with Google Calendar I can overrule that schedule and set heating and lights from gcalendar.
I wanted this for the heating of my sons room. It's perfectly scheduled according the 2 weekly schedule but with the holidays coming up I needed an easy way to have heating on other days also.
Now with the calendar I only have to make some appointments with 'Setpoint Tobi 18' as subject and done :)

Timers can also be set and removed with the json api, could also be done from Google calendar and some php then.

Re: Schedule when holiday timer plan is active

Posted: Monday 14 December 2015 23:50
by deennoo
Thanks for your input, as i just check again after reading you : Timer can only be drive for scene not for single device.

Did you share your PHP on scripts section ?

Re: Schedule when holiday timer plan is active

Posted: Tuesday 15 December 2015 7:27
by Egregius
Look at my signature ;)