Rooms Manager: Smarter Rooms: Personalized home automation with Occupancy

[anthonymorris]

First I want to say this app is awesome so far and really like the approach your taking and speed at which you are pumping out updates.

I know that you have implemented rules - just not a fan of the once you create them they are there forever bit. I know this is not on you but on ST.

so I am working on using pistons with the occupancy states. I have added them to webcore and looking at options to get the complexity I need while also simplifying my pistons at the same time.

I noticed when the DTH changes states there are 2 actions that occur in the st mobile app. 1 is the button push corresponding to the state - then the value of the state change. What is the best method for the if statement a changes to value or button push for monitoring change to start piston?

[bangali]

First I want to say this app is awesome so far and really like the approach your taking and speed at which you are pumping out updates.

thank you. wanted to get the first batch of major features out soon as i could. then sort of bake it for a while, let folks use it and fix any issues reported. then go for second batch probably next month.

I know that you have implemented rules - just not a fan of the once you create them they are there forever bit. I know this is not on you but on ST.

yeah me neither.

What is the best method for the if statement a changes to value or button push for monitoring change to start piston?

the only reason i added buttons is so typical apps could manipulate room states like ST lighting app etc etc. when using in wC i would go with if rooms occupancy changes to ‘state’

[johhnwilliam]

Why not just use the tiles in WebCoRE?

Device Status Tiles

I added my Room Occupancy Status Tiles Piston on the very first post if anyone is interested for Smartapp/DTH the located here: https://community.webcore.co/t/occupancy-detection-with-smartapp-custom-dth-useful-for-keeping-lights-on-if-a-room-is-occupied-motionless/505 It looks like this, I used the exact same colors that are used on the DTH: [image] I’m working on a new Thermostat and Presence Sensor Tiles as well which is mostly done but working out some glitches on them still. I’ll post…

[Drlungbarrow]

Can those tiles be setup to be interacted with on various devices? For example, can I have the webcore tiles displayed on a tablet that I could then interact with to turn on/off things?

[bangali]

can I have the webcore tiles displayed on a tablet that I could then interact with to turn on/off things?

yes.

[Drlungbarrow]

That is awesome!

No need for action tiles then!

[bangali]

check out @bfara83 tiles here:

Device Status Tiles

Before I begin, I would like to thank bangali and RobinWinbourne for the idea, I used some of the coding they had on tile pistons that was posted on the Smartthings and WebCoRE sites and combined them for these pistons that was created. I highly recommend creating a second instance of WebCoRE for the tiles like I did since it’ll split the memory usage and make everything run and work faster. The WebCoRE site will start to get slow too unless you do this, and you can link them together by regi…

the man loves his tiles.

not sure if they are configured to be actionable but thats an easy change with this starting point

[kxavier_23]

I have my rooms humming along nicely.

I experimented with creating 2 rules for a room as follows:

Global Lux: 800

Rule #1:

Choose from time: = Sunrise
To time?: = 10:00pm
Turn ON which switches: Dimmer #1
Set level when turning ON: = 100

Rule #2:

Choose from time: = 10:01 PM
To time?: = Sunrise
Turn ON which switches: Dimmer #1
Set level when turning ON: = 20%

I was pleasantly surprised that at 10:01 PM, the light lowered to 20%

This leads me to my question

Say I wanted different lux levels to to step the lights up/down based on the lux level, can that be done?

Here is how I think it might be done based on the above results. Please correct me if i am wrong.

Rule #1:

What lux value?: 800
Turn ON which switches: Dimmer #1
Set level when turning ON: = 100%

Rule #2:

What lux value?: 1000
Turn ON which switches: Dimmer #1
Set level when turning ON: = 80%

Rule #3:

What lux value?: 1200
Turn ON which switches: Dimmer #1
Set level when turning ON: = 60%

Etc.

Would the light in the above case, “dim,” as the lux value rose, and would it increase light as the lux fell past the threshold?

Thank you

[bangali]

I was pleasantly surprised that at 10:01 PM, the light lowered to 20%

yes the rules are expected to work that way.

Say I wanted different lux levels to to step the lights up/down based on the lux level, can that be done?

yes i do the same for my water plant thingy throughout the day starting at 7:30am and turning them off at 10:30pm at various level and color temperature setting.

[daven]

In defence of ActionTiles the Dashboard doesn’t run in kiosk mode. You have to have the dashboard logged in and all it’s glory exposed to whoever wants to touch other things. No?

[bangali]

now that rules have lux settings i am thinking of removing the main lux threshold from lux settings.

anyone objects? or sees a value in having it that i may be missing?

thanks.

[johhnwilliam]

Ofcourse it has it’s pro’s and cons

[johhnwilliam]

In my opinion it can be removed.

[ruhlmcu]

IMO. It can be removed

[KellyDarren]

Once you understand it its fine. By removing it, it may remove people confusion.

[KellyDarren]

This easter egg, is it the power on/off button !!!

[bangali]

nice work, indeed it is.

as the winner of the easter egg hunt you get to pick the next feature i should build after the release this week.

name your feature

[KellyDarren]

Yay go me…
Ahhhh i feel the pressure building

[bangali]

[bangali]

heres an example of the rules for my water plant display. it uses outdoor lux settings to vary the light levels throughout the day. on weekdays it turns on at 7:30 am and on weekends at 9am. it switches off every night at 10:30 pm.