That would be excellent!
Guys
There are new versions of both the parent and child of Modes Plus.
Parent: 1.1.2
Child: 1.7.1
This release should (hopefully) fix the issues with the new UI.
No new 'features' as yet
Please update both the parent and the child.
One thing to note:
If you already have child apps installed/configured then you MUST go into each child app, check the configuration and re-save it.
Andy
How did you setup the holiday switch part?
quite a few of the child devices and a virtual switch, force it down direction if the switch is on and down another when it off.
Hey guys, I’m a bit new with habitat. Modes plus looks like a useful utility but can someone tell me where to get the code and how to install it?
Link to his Github is in the first post.
Installation for Cobra apps is a little different than the rest of the apps you will find here. He uses a container to group all of his apps. Best if you check out his website and click the 'Installation Help' button.
His website can be found here: http://hubitat.uk
Welcome to Hubitat!
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This is a nice clean app thank you
one question - If my virtual presence sensor is already home and I'm in Home Day Mode.
Then it becomes evening so Home Evening Mode SHOULD be triggered. will this trigger it if i have it set to:
Switch on: presence sensor (virtual)
after sunset (between 530pm and 5am)
set mode to Home Evening?
Or does the switch actually have to change to on?
If it won't work how do folks handle this use case i.e if you're home and it becomes evening.
thank you
EDIT: looks like presence central does this quite well. I'm a bit confused what modes plus is used for then
I think the "trigger" you choose is the starting point, so if you choose a presence sensor as the trigger, the mode will not change again if the presence sensor isn't changed. So I think you should make two child apps:
- Trigger on presence;
- Trigger on sunset (with time as a restriction) or on time (with sunset as a restriction).
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@Cobra, many thanks to all the great work. I'm currently still figuring out what the best apps and drivers are for all my (current) needs. But I get excited every time I try something new on HE 
I have one question about a mode change on arrival though. I have a mode change on sunset (60 minutes before). If I arrive from away it should change to mode A or (60 minutes before sunset) to mode B. So I think I should make 2 child apps:
- To set mode A with the restrictions the time is before 60 minutes before sunset?
- To set mode B with the restriction the time is after 60 minutes before sunset?
But the restriction settings for sunset / sunrise is a little cryptic in how it will act if chosen, would you be so kind to explain how I can apply this to my needs? Thanks in advance.
Correct!
If a sunset restriction is configured then the app can only react to the trigger if sunset has already occurred
For example, if you configure a restriction for sunset and the trigger is presence arrival.
When you come home.. if it is before sunset then the app won't do anything.
If after sunset, then the app will change to whatever mode you have configured.
Hope that explains things better
Andy
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Hi All,
I have installed Modes Plus on my new hub and configured 3 modes so far
Sunrise - Switch Mode to Day
Sunsite - 30 mins - Switch Mode to Evening
Night - 23:00- Switch Mode to Night
I think everything is configured correct and straight forward but for some reason the Sunset/Sunsrise do not fire at all.
My Settings
And the scheduled jobs it created
What i tried so far:
- re configure
- restart the hub
- pause and restart the apps
Nothing makes them work. So I am at a loss on what i am doing wrong here. Any ideas or suggestions will be appreciated
DISCLAIMER: I only had the hub for about 2 weeks now so i am still learning and discovering things so it is possible i did something wrong. But for 3 days now the Day and Evening did not get set but Night always gets set @ 23:00
I think I've found a bug in the sunset/sunrise routine.
I have updated the website with a new version of the 'child' code (V2.4.1)
Please update and try this.
Please let me know how you get on.
Andy
Thanks. Will update the code now and provide an update tomorrow on how it went
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You will need to re-save your child apps for the new code to work
@Cobra something seems strange. I have updated the child app and edited and re-saved all 3 them. For some reason it seems to execute 2 of the 3 each time except for the time based one
As you can see this morning it went to Evening first and than Day in a matter of milliseconds. Than last night it went Day and than to Night instead of evening. At 22:24 i manually changed it to see if it would toggle to night @23:00 and it did and that was the only mode it went through
If you need any logs, config or info I will happily provide them. I will check it again this evening to see if yesterday was an anomaly when it went Day and than Night instead of evening.
Further update on this. My Evening mode which was Sunset - 30 mins did no fire so my hub is still in Day mode.
I will need some more info/screenshots etc
Please open a support ticket on the website so we can get to the bottom of this problem
Andy
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Ticket is created with all screenshots i had so far attached. I can provide any extra info as required once you get a chance to look at it. For now i have disabled them because they are triggering lights at the wrong times but i can turn them on once i know what more info is needed.
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