Motion sensor piston not firing when in the process of dimming

diomark · 2020-02-20 21:44:37 UTC

1) Give a description of the problem
Wife is ready to dumb-down our smart house; replacing wife not a real option. This piston turns on with motion, then if it doesn’t detect motion for 30 seconds, dims then turns off… issue is, if motion resumes during the dimming period, it doesn’t come back on.

2) What is the expected behaviour?
restart the piston and go back to full brightness if motion is detected

3) What is happening/not happening?
continues to turn off instead of turning back on

4) Post a Green Snapshot of the piston

5) Attach logs after turning logging level to Full
working remote so don’t have a valid log of this - but happens all the time:( I didn’t have the task cancellation policies int here initially, but added them hoping they’d help. they didn’t help. is there something wrong with my logic?

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SergL · 2020-02-20 21:51:28 UTC

First thing is to pull that second IF on line 27 out as its own statement and not the ELSE of the first IF. After that I would change the trigger for that second IF to “stays inactive for x time” since that is the specific state you want it to reference.

diomark · 2020-02-20 22:02:15 UTC

thanks i’ll try the two tips… Look better? What about the task cancellation policies?

ike2018 · 2020-02-20 22:15:45 UTC

instead of WAIT you can also use FADE OUT.

FAID OUT to level 0 in 10 seconds

diomark · 2020-02-20 22:37:19 UTC

I’ve tried that - this particular kitchen dimmer doesn’t like fadeout…

ike2018 · 2020-02-20 22:38:57 UTC

I see…yeah sometimes they do that:)

is it working properly right now? because @SergL’s feedback was good.

diomark · 2020-02-20 22:40:17 UTC

I just got home and did a quick test… so far so good.

I think in the past when I had it this way I had the opposite issue, where the light never turned off… but we’ll see…

Can I get some feedback on the task cancellation policies? Should that be set the way it is? My thinking is, if it’s in the middle of diming and motion is detected again, it should cancel out and start over / turn the lights on… or is that understood and not needed?

Thanks!

orangebucket · 2020-02-20 22:41:19 UTC

Not even sure what policies you have messed with there, but I’d stick to the defaults. The TEP and TSP should be left alone and the TCP default should do what you want.

I like the look of this better. I prefer the ‘stays’ timed trigger on the top level where I just about understand it. Whether it will work is another matter, and definitely one to test rather than think about. The timed trigger is more complex than it might seem.

ike2018 · 2020-02-20 22:42:47 UTC

for lights turning OFF i’d never use WAIT
but everyone’s needs are different.

WCmore · 2020-02-21 02:45:21 UTC

Normally, if you want to be able to cancel out of something, you want TCP set to default.

Personally, I would use a method like this, without any special settings or TCP.

With this method, any activity will cancel the wait, and go back to full brightness.
(lines 46+ should never run, but I added it as a safety net backup)

diomark · 2020-02-21 03:50:30 UTC

So it just stayed dark for about a minute while we were moving around in that room:( log attached from past 5 minutes. I had taken out the TCP’s btw…

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diomark · 2020-02-21 03:59:37 UTC

so a second safety check after the wait to make sure motion is still inactive… i’ll have to try that…

WCmore · 2020-02-21 04:20:37 UTC

Upon closer inspection of 840t, the WITH on line 31 might need TCP set to Never.
(since we do not want it to cancel until after checking for movement)

Edit

Ignore my previous two lines… I think TCP set to default in this case is still better. The top trigger on 840t should catch any activity and immediately turn the light to 100%.

(IE: If there is activity, it shouldn’t matter if lines 46 onwards executes properly, since the light should be at 100% already)

diomark · 2020-02-21 05:12:51 UTC

I’m experimenting with synchronous vs asynchronous. (before it was set to async…) - seems to behave better w/ async, but it also takes much longer to turn off… (instead of 20 seconds, it’s more like 50 seconds; weird…)

WCmore · 2020-02-21 05:14:13 UTC

I would try pausing your current piston, and importing 840t.
I think you will get very quick response times.

WCmore · 2020-02-21 05:18:40 UTC

Side Note:

The code: “stays inactive for 30 seconds” actually starts when the device reports inactivity. Some devices do that quickly (I have seen as low as 3 sec after leaving the room), and some do it very slowly. (I think 3 minutes timeout was the slowest I have seen)

Thankfully, whatever device you have, with whatever timer it has, will usually be consistent. So, once you learn your device’s timeout, you can better tweak the extra delay here in webCoRE.

IE:

If your device takes 20 seconds to report inactivity to the hub, and you want a 30 second of inactivity trigger, then use:
“stays inactive for 10 seconds”

Pro Tip:

A quick way to test your particular device is to make a one block piston:

IF Sensor's motion stays inactive for 1 second
    Then Flash light
END IF

Get your stop watch ready
Walk in front of the motion sensor
Quickly leave the room and begin the stop watch
When the light flashes, stop the watch, and subtract 1 second.

This test tells you how long it takes for that particular device to timeout.

orangebucket · 2020-02-21 08:27:13 UTC

So I see from the logs. The motion went active at 7:47:08.8. The ‘stays inactive’ timer woke up at 7:47:09.08. Could be a freak race condition I suppose, but there is something odd there. A semaphore wait should have stopped that happening. You haven’t enabled parallelism have you? Or otherwise done something asychronous? That’d possibly explain it.

diomark · 2020-02-21 18:21:45 UTC

Hey WCMore - yes, in other pistons, I have different inactive periods based on how fast the motion detectors react… Some of my older motion detectors stay active for a minute post-activity;/

I’ve done this so far by monitoring status while walking around a motion detector and then standing still:) but the advice on the 1 second lights is great as well…

I’ll try 840t tonight. tnx.

diomark · 2020-02-21 18:22:38 UTC

It was defaulting to asynchronous (I thought all pistons did?) - I changed it to synchronous yesterday and it stays on better - but now takes forever to turn off…

orangebucket · 2020-02-21 20:38:16 UTC

The default ‘execution method’ for tasks is synchronous. Which basically means the piston waits for the task to complete before moving on to the next one. You can set tasks individually to asynchronous so the piston starts them going and moves on to the next one immediately. It isn’t going to make much difference unless the task contains a wait.

The default behaviour of pistons as a whole is to try and serialize execution. So if a piston fires a new instance while a previous one is still executing it will use a ‘semaphore wait’ to delay the new one for a while. You can ‘enable parallelism’ to just have the new instance start executing. It can be useful if your piston handles events that might happen near simultaneously but can be processed largely independently of each other, and/or semaphore waits can cause events to be handled out of order.