Re: Has ANYONE got the Comfort <> Homeseer plug in working ?

["PatrickLidstone" <patrickl@xxxxxxx>]

I missed the start of this thread (hectic life etc). For those who 
don't know, I wrote the comfort plug-in.

There have been one or two reports of weirdness - which usually turn 
out to be comfort related (it seems very idiosyncratic) - but I know 
there are many (tens of) happy users out there.

As I tried to explain to Gareth in e-mail previously, the following 
is spot on the money, and is also covered in the docs IIRC.

>   > You do realise that the plugin reports the status of
the Zones 
as 0
>   > or 1, not as ON and OFF. The Homeseer events do NOT
respond when
>   you
>   > are looking for a status of ON or OFF. You need to
trigger 
events
>   > using the option to check for a change in VALUE.

The reason for this is that sensors can report intermediate values 
other than just on and off - although the UCM has limited support for 
this at present. The Homeseer API is sufficiently brain dead to be 
unable to support the concept of an "On"/"Off"
threshold/value - so I 
didn't have a choice.

>   > While this works nicely if you're just checking for a
change in
>   > value, I can't get it to work if I want a conditional
trigger. 
e.g.
>   a
>   > change in value AND it's after sunset.
>   >
>   > I hope this helps with your problem. Perhaps someone
can help 
with
>   > mine?
>   >

If I've understood what you want to achieve, then this is possible 
too, I think.

Within Homeseer:

>From Event Properties page, in Description pane, select event
"Type" 
as "By condition".

The should change the bottom pane to indicate "Trigger when all of
the given conditions are true".

Multiple conditions can then be added through the dialogue.

Gary, I will send you a screen shot when I have access to a decent 
net connection.


Patrick

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