Rooms Manager: Smarter Rooms: Personalized home automation with Occupancy

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occupancy
rules
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#703

Good catch, my fault there thank you.

#704

UPDATE: updated to github with the following changes:

*  Version: 0.45.0
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*   DONE:   6/12/2018
*   1) for hubitat only added support for executing any device any command to rules.
*   2) added option to reset ENGAGED if contact stays open but still room was engaged using another device like power.
*   3) added option for LOCKED to override other devices that trigger other states. this excludes buttons that activate another state because by pressing a button user is expressing explicit intent to switch to that state.
*   4) added option to view all settings page to show a non-anonymized version for user to view locally.
*   5) updated timer countdown to be more uniform. hopefully :-)
*   6) updated settings in rooms manager to be more uniform.
*   7) added device health check with option to notify via speaker and/or color. this checks if the device has communicated with the hub in X number of hours, where X is configured through settings.
*   8) for hubitat only added option to check additional devices for device health even if those devices are not used with rooms.

sorry for the delay with this update.

#705

updated to github with following changes:

*  Version: 0.50.0
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*   DONE:   6/30/2018
*   1) added icons to main settings page for a room in hubitat. ST already shows these icons on the settings page.
*   2) added option to hide advanced settings.
*   3) added setting to adjust cooling and heating temperature by 0.5ªF when outside temperature is respectively over 90ªF and below 32ªF.
*   4) rewrote temperature management to be more consistent.
*   5) cleaned up rooms manager settings.
*   6) added option for how often device health message should be announced.
*   7) fixed a bug here and there.
#706

posted the corresponding versions of this on the other forum so sharing here as well.

this is what the current version of the settings page looks like. if you turn on easy settings or hide the advanced settings it looks different. but without either of them this shows all the settings groups that are available for a room:

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#707

working on updating docs with a feature list at the top because i know like me most people enjoy reading all the rest of the docs :wink:

once finalized will probably add these at the top of the main post …

Here is a summary of features for the quick reader.

  • Rooms settings:
    • Manage room occupancy state with:
      • Presence sensors.
      • Motion sensors.
      • Contact sensors.
      • Music players.
      • Button pushes.
      • Switches on and off.
      • Power wattage.
    • Create rules based on:
      • For all rules:
        • Room occupancy state
        • Hub mode
        • Day of week
        • Lux value
        • Humidity range
        • Date filter
        • Time trigger
      • For temperature rules only:
        • Temperature
    • Rules allow you to:
      • For execution rules:
        • Turn on and off lights / switches.
          • Auto adjust level and color temperature when turning on lights.
          • Set light color when turning on.
        • Setup recurring schedule for holiday light shows including annually recurring holidays.
        • On Hubitat send any command to any device.
        • Run pistons.
        • Run routines.
        • Start and stop music players.
        • Set window shade position.
      • For temperature rules:
        • Maintain room temperature with thermostat or in-room AC and heaters.
        • Turn fan on/off and manage fan speed with room temperature.
        • Control vents with room temperature.
    • Other settings:
      • Setup multiple color routines for holiday light shows.
      • Turn on night lights with motion while room state is asleep.
  • Rooms occupancy device settings:
    • Set alarm to play on a daily or weekly schedule for each room.
  • Rooms manager settings:
    • Check and announce device battery status.
    • Check and announce device health monitoring status.
    • Announce arrival and departure including with randomly selected messages.
    • Announce time every quarter, half or on the hour.
    • Announce sunrise and sunset.
    • Announce when door stays open.
    • Announcements support speakers and / or lights for making announcements.
#708

I think the adjacent room settings are no longer functioning properly. I am no longer seeing rooms change to the checking status when motion is detected in an assigned adjacent room.

#709

thanks for letting me know … will check.

#710

UPDATE: updated to github with the following changes:

*  Version: 0.52.5
*
*   DONE:   7/9/2018
*   1) added occupany icon to rooms device state for use with Hubitat.
*	2) added icons to settings for rooms device for Hubitat
*	3) added icons to settings for rooms manager for Hubitat
*	4) optimized performance of device health check on Hubitat.
*	5) started cleaning up code for room state replay.
*	6) added option to announce sunset and sunrise with speaker along with the color option that was already there.
*	7) added more granular control for window shade level.
*	8) added processing for room cool or heat rules on room state change.
*	9) swatted a bug here and a bug there.
#711

you are right the device subscriptions for adjacent rooms are not working right. will dig further tomorrow … should have a fix by saturday.

sorry for the trouble.

#712

fixed. stupid typo. will release code tomorrow.

#713

Thanks Bangali!

You are amazing, great support for this as always!

#714

UPDATE: updated to github with:

*  Version: 0.55.0
*
*   DONE:   7/13/2018
*   1) added support for ask alexa message queue for spoken announcements. (was added in v0.52.5 just announcing now)
*   2) added support on SmartThings for ge dimmer switch and setting the operational mode of the switch. (was added in v0.52.5 just announcing now)
*	3) added room button so you can use a single button to rotate thru selected room states.
*	4) added support for mode in rooms manager in which to make announcements.
*   5) added option to remove devices from health check.
*   6) fixed a couple of bugs.
#715

I love this idea, unfortunately I can’t get it to work. It turns on the lights, but never changes away from Occupied afterward.

Turns out I chose enable the Switch to easy settings. Whatever is in there I did, failed to work. I switched to advanced settings and now the countdown is working properly.

#716

if its not switching away from occupied state generally the reason is no timeout value for occupied has been set.

so things are working now as they should? please dont hesitate to ask if i can clarify anything.

#717

I do recall that I had tried to set the timeout value to several different values, with no affect. I also noted in the Recent Activity that the timeout was always reported as 0s.
It is working now. I stopped using the Simple Settings and that seemed to do it.

Only question I have, relates to lux. I noticed the instructions seem to indicate that lux sensor value <= setting value check is possible. I could turn lights on when it rises above a value, but can I prevent them coming on if the lux sensor value >= setting value?

#718

ok, will check.

great to hear its working now.

yes. in maintain rules on any rule if you specify a lux value that rule will only be executed when lux from device is <= that value. every rule evaluates the conditions or time triggers specified on that rule before being executed.

#719

Rox!! Thanks mate.

#720

Spent my day off today transitioning my complex pistons for occupancy and presence into Room Manager. I’m very impressed this far. Really helping me optimize.

#721

no better way to spend a day off … even if i say so myself. :wink:

that was always the hope … thanks to users like you who make it possible.

dont hesitate to make a feature request if something that should be there is missing … either here or on github

#722

updated to github with the following changes. NOTE the breaking changes below.

*  Version: 0.60.0
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*   DONE:   8/1/2018
*	1) BREAKING CHANGE: added color options in rooms to support the same colors as supported in rooms manager already.
*       you will need to update any color settings for rules after this update.
*	2) added option to select between pushable, holdable and double tap buttons on Hubitat.
*	3) added support for multiple types of speaker devices for rooms child so those are available for announcements.
*	4) added support for light bulbs to support announcement in each via color.
*	5) added support for some announcements for doors and windows in rooms.
*	6) optimized code for processing adjacent rooms when updated from rooms settings.
*	7) collapsed option for sending command to any device instead of being able to support only the operational mode
*		for ge siwtches on SmartThings. on Hubitat this supports sending any commands to any device from rules. on
*		Smartthings, since ST does not supporting any device from input, it currently supprts any commands to any
*		device that is of type switch.
*	8) added more details for temperature rules when shown in view all settings.
*	9) added option to support fans that only support on/off but not level settings.
*	10) changed how time scheduling is handled to work around how infrequent Smartthings issue with sunrise and sunset.
*	11) added support for variable volums to announcements.
*	12) swatted a bug here and a bug there.
*   13) BREAKING CHANGE: added multiple different occupancy icon sizes for use with Hubitat dashboard.
*       you will need to update any dashaboards using occupancyIcon to use one of the new icons of different sizes.
*	14) added image URL for occupancy icon for use for when Hubitat supports state attributes for image URL in dashboard.
*	15) add a few more tiles for SmartThings for missing attributes like outside temperature, vents and couple of others.
*	16) updated readme for github.