[RELEASE] Event Engine - Automate your world with easy to use Cogs. Rev up complex automations with just a few clicks!

New version on GitHub...

3.3.5 - 11/11/21 - Added support for the Ring Alarm Gen 2 Keypad using the Ring Alarm Keypad G2 Community Driver.

Supports ALL buttons including panic buttons and Alt codes!

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New version on GitHub...

3.3.6 - 11/21/21 - Fixed issue with sunset/sunrise end times

Another quick update...

3.3.7 - 11/21/21 - Mode Events turning switches on/off/dim can now use Reverse options

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Hi Bryan,

After doing the update to 3.3.7, I'm now getting this message in the logs

app:58332021-11-22 16:06:40.292 errorjava.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "98.83" on line 4284

most if not all of the Cogs do this. The error shows up right after the motion sensor goes to unoccupied it seams.

Here is a log:

dev:16042021-11-22 16:12:15.272 infohandleMeterReport() - deltaTime:120 secs, meterType:Electric, meterValue:688.634, previousMeterValue:688.634, scale:energy(0), unit: kWh, precision:3, rateType:1

dev:16032021-11-22 16:12:12.664 infoChauffe-Eau energy is 6385.653 kWh

dev:16032021-11-22 16:12:12.660 infoChauffe-Eau energyDuration is 735.2 Days

dev:26892021-11-22 16:12:06.670 infoMS Bureau Yannick: motion is inactive

app:52192021-11-22 16:12:01.542 errorjava.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "98.83" on line 4284

dev:48662021-11-22 16:11:51.166 infoMS Escalier Bas illuminance is 0 Lux

dev:49962021-11-22 16:11:50.008 infoMS Palier is inactive

dev:4812021-11-22 16:11:45.890 infoMS Marche: motion is inactive

dev:4812021-11-22 16:11:34.587 infoMS Marche: motion is active

dev:49962021-11-22 16:11:31.699 infoMS Palier is active

dev:30142021-11-22 16:11:29.917 debug{Sensor @ endpoint 8 has value 1.9 - ep=8 sp=1 Température de la piscine SensorMultilevelReport(precision:1, scale:0, sensorType:1, sensorValue:[0, 19], size:2, scaledSensorValue:1.9) }

dev:26892021-11-22 16:11:29.561 infoMS Bureau Yannick: motion is active

Thank-you

Show me your Cog Description and a debug log of it happening please

FYI: It's MUCH easier for devs to read screen shots of logs, as opposed to a text capture like you provided above. Example below:

Logs screen shot example

2021-11-22 07_08_58-Logs

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There you go:

Thanks for the suggestion @danabw

I think I need a fresh set of eyes, I can't seem to figure what I'm missing. I'm trying to write a cog to turn on my garage light with a zone motion controller consisting of 2 motion sensors. I have had this as a Motion Lighting rule for about a year and am moving it into Event Engine.
The problem is I can't get it to turn the light on.
If I have this toggle set this way, it stays on and shuts off with motion.
image

If I reverse the toggle, it doesn't work at all.
image

Here is my cog,

Does anyone see what I'm missing here or have any suggestions?

Motion toggle should be On if you want the light to come on when there is motion.

The issue with the cog is that you have selected 'ALL' instead of 'OR'. Which means all motion sensors selected have to be active for the light to come on. Change that to 'OR', so the light will come on if any of the sensors are active.

Another Note:
By Motion Sensor - Looks like you are using a zone and then you also selected other motion sensors. Are these sensors in the zone? If so, you only need to select the zone and not the individual sensors. If they are not included in the zone, then it's fine to select as many sensors as you want/need.

Hope this helps.

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Hello, I have a single bulb (hue) on my front porch and would like to automatically rotate colors between red and green for Christmas. I’ve installed Event Engine and Lighting Effects apps but am confused on how to actually accomplish my task with those apps.
I’ve tried searching the community but cannot find any tutorials or guides.

Any help would be great.

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You only need Lighting Effects for that. Just follow the selections one at a time, it pretty self explanatory.

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I’m confused. Is Lighting Effects a separate App than Effects Engine?

Edit: I couldnt find the Lighting Effects App in Hubitat Package Manager so I installed the code manually from your Github.

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So like this?
image

Yes, My thought was for redundancy, in case the zone didn't pick up the motion they would trigger secondarily as a backup. I have removed the individual sensors.

Here is the cog as it is this morning.

Finally got it working. Turns out the batteries in one of the sensors were dead, and the zone was set so that both sensors needed to pick up the motion. Changed the batteries and changes that set to one.

Thanks again for your help.

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Ended up here after following the evolution of the "gentle wake up" and "wake me up" apps. The latter was deprecated after being rolled up into Event Engine. So, I installed EE but have not been able to locate the functionality these two apps offered...

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Depends on what you're looking to do but you can do something like this:

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I have a new head-scratcher. I have a cog to dim our bedroom lights from 40% to 5% over 30 minutes beginning at 2000. It fires off and dims ok, but for some reason when it triggers it momentarily goes to full brightness, then goes back to 40% (where it starts from) then begins to slowly dim. Does anyone have any ideas why?

In the actions,

  • Don't select any "Dimmers to Set".
  • Select the Dimmers within the "Select dimmer devices to slowly dim" section
  • Turn "Use a Set Starting Level for all devices" off (Not needed since you are only using one light.)

Thanks

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Does it matter if it is a group?

How does this look?
1 issue here., The device is selected, but it's not being reflected in the Cog Description

COG

Nope, still see's it as 1 device.

Thanks! Fixed for the next release.

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hello all!

i have some sylvania bulbs and would like them to change with a fade if possible between christmas colors? i cant find how with this app can make it work

can somebody help?

Can't with this app but try Lighting effects found on my GitHub. Link is in my profile.

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