Having a bit of trouble with "followed by"

#1

1) Give a description of the problem
When using a conditional group connected by a “followed” by, the first consition evaluates as false even though it had been triggered within the follow by timeframe.

2) What is the expected behaviour?
I’d expect the conditions to evaluate to true and execute the the “then”.

3) What is happening/not happening?
The logs indicate that the first condition is not (or no longer?) true.

**4) Post a Green Snapshot of the piston

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5) Attach logs after turning logging level to Full
5/23/2019, 5:33:48 PM +715ms
+1ms ╔Received event [Mudway motion].motion = active with a delay of 100ms
+83ms ║RunTime Analysis CS > 15ms > PS > 47ms > PE > 21ms > CE
+85ms ║Runtime (37697 bytes) successfully initialized in 47ms (v0.3.10a.20190223) (83ms)
+86ms ║╔Execution stage started
+104ms ║║Comparison (enum) active changes_to (string) active = false (1ms)
+106ms ║║Condition #4 evaluated false (7ms)
+107ms ║║Cancelling statement #3’s schedules…
+108ms ║║Condition group #3 evaluated false (state did not change) (11ms)
+112ms ║╚Execution stage complete. (26ms)
+114ms ║Setting up scheduled job for Thu, May 23 2019 @ 5:37:11 PM EDT (in 202.464s)
+127ms ╚Event processed successfully (127ms)
5/23/2019, 5:30:11 PM +199ms
+1ms ╔Received event [Malkie].presence = present with a delay of 64ms
+72ms ║RunTime Analysis CS > 17ms > PS > 43ms > PE > 12ms > CE
+74ms ║Runtime (37684 bytes) successfully initialized in 43ms (v0.3.10a.20190223) (72ms)
+75ms ║╔Execution stage started
+86ms ║║Comparison (enum) present changes_to (string) present = true (1ms)
+88ms ║║Cancelling condition #2’s schedules…
+89ms ║║Condition #2 evaluated true (8ms)
+90ms ║║Cancelling statement #1’s schedules…
+91ms ║║Condition group #1 made progress up the ladder, currently at step 1 of 2
+98ms ║╚Execution stage complete. (22ms)
+99ms ║Setting up scheduled job for Thu, May 23 2019 @ 5:37:11 PM EDT (in 419.994s)
+108ms ╚Event processed successfully (108ms)

#2

There have been some threads mentioning issues with followed by, you might just want to work around it by setting a boolean variable that gets reset after your timeout period.

#3

Thanks. So I can set the variable true after the first condition fires. How do I set it to false it after the 7 minutes are up?

This is what i have so far - I’m not sure that 7 minute wait is the right approach though. Will it timeout, prevent the rest of the triggers from firing, or be otherwise unreliable?

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#4

This is how I would put it together… have not tested it all…

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#5

lol - that’s what I came up with as well. Thanks!!

#6

In answer to your first question (about followed by), both the motion and the presence sense act as triggers to start the piston. Is it possible that you got motion, but the presence device was away? That’s what the log looks like it was saying.

#7

I included 2 logs, the first event was the presence sensor coming home followed 3 minutes later by the motion sensor triggering. However, he second log event claimed that Comparison (enum) active changes_to (string) active = false (1ms) which shouldn’t be true as the log immediately preceding it shows!

#8