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Hi,

Let me introduce me first. I'm Martijn, from the Netherlands and just started with Domoticz.
I currently have a Control4 system which is working fine however expanding it is pretty expensive and should be done by an installer.
I'd like to be in the driver seat

I currently have HomeMatic for my lightning and Motion detectors and I would love to get them running in Domoticz.
Switching is easy done by: http://192.168.1.52/config/xmlapi/state ... se_id=1822[/b]&new_value=1
The PIRs have a similar string value="false" or value="true"

But It should be nice if I can somehow trigger/read what the current status is

<channel name="<ChannelName>:1" ise_id="1822" visible="true" operate="true">
<datapoint name="<DatapointName:1.LEVEL" type="LEVEL" ise_id="1594" value="1.000000" valuetype="6" valueunit="100%" timestamp="1451852268" operations="7"/>

Is this possible by the UI or should I write a (LUA) script for this?

Triggering should be easy - add yourself the dummy hardware - create a switch (you can use any type - I "pretend" things are x10 type in that case you set a house and unit code - they are not used they just create a unique switch) on that hardware - and then edit the resulting switch - in there is an on and off action - and you can put http:// actions in there for your on/off switches.

I think there is a way read values for sensors from http - but I don't know how to do that (I am about 30 days ahead of you in Domoticz experience).

Once the system has the switch - you can script it via the various interfaces and combine it with other sensors.

Enjoy the learning

Hope this helps

Thanks,

The switches are working fine sofar..
The thing is that I want to know the current status. Say for instance..

I use a manual wall switch to turn on the light.
Then I want to see this status change in Domoticz.

This should be possible as sensors behave the same. Thing I can't find (sofar) in Domoticz is how to poll the switches/sensors using a xmlapi.
I do have the code, just do no where to put it

you could run it in a script (lua) as a "time" event - they run every minute - and you could update the status from that script - there may be a side effect of any on action (like the http:// string) being run when you update the status.

Not sure if that would be suitable for motion sensors though

Ok,

I tried to do it the other way around.
Instead of polling Homematic from Domoticz I added a script in Homematic.
This updates a user variable, some UTF crap forced me to call a webservice first

/// HomeMatic script
string stderr;
string stdout;
string url="http://192.168.1.10/webservice/motion.p ... Downstairs";
system.Exec("wget -q -O - "#url, &stdout, &stderr);

So now I have 2 user variables:
PIR_Upstairs Integer 0 2016-01-04 22:42:10
PIR_Downstairs Integer 0 2016-01-04 22:42:10

edit: I can trigger events when the PIR detects motion..
I love Domoticz