Accidental light triggers due to long pistons

Bagman002 · 2020-11-23 10:32:03 UTC

1) Give a description of the problem
Lights turning back on after switching off

2) What is the expected behaviour?
Lights to remain off when requested

3) What is happening/not happening?
When multiple lights are turned off at the same time, say for example a lighting group or an away scene to turn off all lights. This causes some of the lights to switch back on.

For some additional background on my piston set up (of which this is one of two). Basically at night time specifically at 8pm it will dim my lights and change the colour temp IF the light is on. However there is a few qerks to this piston. Such as if I turn on my office light it will reset all of the lights that are currently on. Meaning if I had set the lounge room to be dimmer then preset in my rule it will increase the brightness.

One of the other qerks which is more annoying is when I turn off multiple lights off simultaneously either through a rule/scene/lighting group it will cause some of the lights to switch back on.

I suspect this is due to webCoRE taking a point in time view as to what lights are on when the rule starts so If light C is one when I turn off A, B & C it turns it back on as per my piston.

One way around this which I have fixed for my bedtime routine is once I close my bedroom door at night it will turn off light A instantly, light B off in 10 seconds, light c off in 20 seconds and so on. This ensures all lights get turned off and I don’t wake up in the morning with all lights on unexpectedly.

Hope that explains my problem well enough

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5) Attach logs after turning logging level to Full
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WCmore · 2020-11-23 18:09:34 UTC

It must be another piston (or automation) turning the lights off…
There are no “Turn Off” commands anywhere in this piston.

orangebucket · 2020-11-23 20:42:32 UTC

My thinking of the sort of thing that might be happening (not checked against your logs):

If you turn the four lights off they are going to turn off in sequence. Let’s say A B C D.

When A is switched off the piston is triggered and there is then a race on to see if the piston checks the state of B before it is turned off. If it does then the colour temperature is set and then there is a 2 second wait before the level is set. B will almost certainly have switched off during that wait but it will be switched on again as the level is set after the wait. As the wait is only two seconds the task cancellation policy isn’t a factor.

If the piston doesn’t see B as still on, it might well see C or D on as there is that extra little bit of time before they turn off. (I originally wrote off instead of on here).

The event for B being switched off will probably fire the piston during a wait, and the new instance will promptly hit a semaphore and end up waiting for ten seconds before it does anything.

And so on with C and D.

Basically there are a lot of events hitting that piston in too short a time and those 2 second waits are working against you.

WCmore · 2020-11-24 09:28:41 UTC

@orangebucket has nailed this one.
(Somehow I had read your question backwards)

Bagman002 · 2020-11-30 09:51:59 UTC

Correct there is no off command in this piston as I am only interested in changing the colour and brightness when the lights are turned on. However I use voice commands with Google to turn off living room lights for example. When turning off both lights simultaneously it causes this piston to turn one of the lights back on.

Bagman002 · 2020-11-30 10:01:12 UTC

@orangebucket Is there a better way that I can be writing my pistons to achieve the same affect without the lights turning back on?

Because I understood through my own troubleshooting that by turning off multiple lights off at once caused this issue. Which is why in a different piston which I referred to in my original post by putting in delays.

Basically as I close my bedroom door at night it starts turning off lights but as you will see with the attached screen shot I have delay times on them. This prevents all the lights in the house getting turned off and them all coming back on.

orangebucket · 2020-11-30 11:50:53 UTC

The ‘d0pmz’ piston in the previous post is really a different kettle of fish because it is only subscribing to the contact change and so will only run when the contact changes to open or to closed.

Incidentally I would suggest that you consider avoiding using ‘only when location mode is Night’ and instead change to ‘if Contact Sensor 5’s contact changes to closed AND Location mode is Night’ (in that order). To cut a long story short you want the piston to evaluate the trigger conditions that made them run, otherwise they can lose track of whether attributes have changed or not.

The problem with the original ‘wmva5’ piston was twofold: it was subscribed to all the light changes; and it was considering the current state of all the lights when it ran rather than concentrating on the ones that had changed. It might have been better to simply use a separate piston for each light.

As a single piston it might have been better to use ‘if White Bulb 2’s switch changes to on’ etc so the piston was only doing anything when each bulb turned on. However if you did that you would probably also want to ‘enable parallelism’ in the piston settings so each instance of the piston would execute immediately.

Bagman002 · 2020-12-19 15:01:01 UTC

The d0pmz piston was more just an example of how I needed to set individually timers to “fix” the issues described in the first piston.

For the first piston posted I did try using changes to on instead of is on. However the issue that I have with Changes to on is that when my location mode changes the lights won’t change as they are already on.

So how would I be able to dim the lights at night without turning lights on that were off and just dimming the lights that are on currently?