Rooms Manager: Smarter Rooms: Personalized home automation with Occupancy

[bangali]

per 1.1.5 update … thought its supported?

Continuing the discussion from Hub Update 1.1.5:

@bravenel

Sonos driver now supports playTrackAndResume

[bangali]

@mike.maxwell also thought PlayTextAndRestore was for audioNotification devices and selecting Sonos as a capability.audioNotification device does not seem to work.

@BorrisTheCat could you please confirm this by trying to select the Sonos as a speaker device in ANNOUNCE BY SPEAKER SETTINGS in rooms manager?

thanks.

[BorrisTheCat]

@bangali

@BorrisTheCat could you please confirm this by trying to select the Sonos as a speaker device in ANNOUNCE BY SPEAKER SETTINGS in rooms manager?

I can confirm that it won't let you select a SONOS as a speaker device. It only let's you select it as a speech device and a media device. In ST I can select it as a speaker.

[bangali]

thanks @BorrisTheCat

@mike.maxwell

@BorrisTheCat

won't let you select a SONOS as a speaker device. It only let's you select it as a speech device and a media device.

speaker device = capability.audioNotification
speech device  = capability.speechSynthesis
media device   = capability.musicPlayer

[bangali]

wondering what folks think of the following feature?

vacation mode where rooms occupancy state is replayed with some randomization from same day last week.

• great idea!
• sure
• ehh
• nah
• bad idea!

EDIT: should have selected show who voted checkbox … otherwise its out of context.

if you voted ehh mind sharing why you are ehh on the vacation mode feature?

thank you.

[mike]

bangali,

How would i set vacant occupancy by pressing a button in Rules Machine (outside of Rooms Manager). I have a set of events that are triggered in RM, and i'd rather do everythign there.

Also, I'd still like it in the Maintain Rules section for a trigger for the rule to be if a switch is on/off. You previously asked for my usage scenario.........I want the room to turn certain lights on if engaged (if a TV is on) and other lights (rules) if the room is engaged but TV is off.

Moreover, that issue i had with rules not triggering after midnight was probably caused by my hub having a DB corruption, which support tells me has now been fixed. I'm not at home for a few days to check, but i suspect its all good now.

Thanks!

[bangali]

@mike

How would i set vacant occupancy by pressing a button in Rules Machine

not sure what you mean by pressing a button in rules machine. you are not physically pushing the button … there is a rule that generates a button press?

@mike

I want the room to turn certain lights on if engaged (if a TV is on) and other lights (rules) if the room is engaged but TV is off.

there is no distinction between engaged state when engaged with power vs when engaged with contacts. I could expose power in the rules to support this but currently no way. sorry.

glad to hear your DB got fixed.

[mike]

Let me rephrase the question. How would i change the status of a room by pressing a button? I want to press a physical button and change the status of all my rooms to night. I can't seem to find how to do it on rule machine. Rule machine allows for on/off only.

[bangali]

@mike

How would i change the status of a room by pressing a button? I want to press a physical button and change the status of all my rooms to night.

do you mean asleep? if yes please set that button as the asleep button in asleep settings for those rooms.

[mike]

Yes, but I want to do it from Rules machine, as I have a whole stack of other things going on. How do change occupancy of a room from a rule within Rules machine.

[bangali]

both webcore and rules machine should see the room device as a push button device and allow pushing button 8 which corresponds to the asleep state.

[mike]

Ahh, thanks. Perfect.

[bangali]

@mike

I want the room to turn certain lights on if engaged (if a TV is on) and other lights (rules) if the room is engaged but TV is off.

added support for both power value check and check for switches on and off for matching rules to execute. so if you want to set room lights to a certain setting when TV switch is on and to another setting when TV switch is off you will be able to do that thru rules.

will be in next release.

[mike]

Thanks so much. Perfect.

[bangali]

[RELEASE] WATO - When any Attribute Then this cmd Otherwise that cmd

i was trying to get Rules Machine to check value of any device attribute and trigger an action on match or non-match. didnt find a way to do it. so heres some code that does that. any device attribute can be compared with an entered value and selected commands can be run either on match or non-match. the param fields are there for commands that need a parameter to run … like set level on a light. here is the child app for each new WATO that is defined: this functionality should probably…

[kilowatts]

@bangali - Is it possible to use a button to temporarily bypass AL Color Temperature settings during Engaged? And resume AL settings when Vacant? (ie: press a button to set lights to 4000K and 100%)

[bangali]

use a button to set the room to locked state? since rooms will not process any rules in locked state … use WATO to set the light to 4000K and 100% when room changes to locked?

[mike]

Eagerly awaiting the update, any news bangali?

[bangali]

think its ready to go. but been distracted because its festival week for us bengalis … so copious amounts of liquid sampling every evening … hasnt left time for much else

hoping to release this weekend. sorry.

[BorrisTheCat]

@mike.maxwell do you know if this was fixed in the latest release?