[Loxone] LightControllerV2: Can't switch off with rule / Alexa

[danielm0hr]

Hi,

My goal is to be able to select individual lighting moods of a Loxone LightControllerV2 through Alexa, without mixing them in. The channels created for the individual moods always mix them, thus when switching to moods with fewer outputs on, I always have to say: "Alexa, Mood A off. Alexa Mood B on". This is not convenient at all. I only want to say "Alexa, Mood B on" and it should switch the A-only-outputs off.

To work around this I tried creating virtual switches for the individual moods and setting the appropriate ID in the light controller Number item through rules, when the switch is toggled. This works fine (no mixing), except I'm not able to switch off all outputs in a rule. It seems like, there's no ID assigned to the "Off" mood, or at least I couldn't figure out which.

This is my LightController item:
Number Lichtsteuerung_Wohnzimmer "Lichtsteuerung Wohnzimmer" <light> ["Lighting"] {channel="loxone:miniserver:ac681435:126F495A-0184-E9BE-FFFFB6D057327F6C"}

It shows up in Paper UI as a dropdown with the available moods, even including the "Off" mood. Through Paper UI everything is fine, also switching off all lights by selecting the "Off" mood.

However, in the following rule, I didn't find the appropriate value for the "Off" mood, yet (marked with ???). Licht_Wohnzimmer_Standard is the virtual switch.

rule "Licht Wohnzimmer Standard"
when
    Item Licht_Wohnzimmer_Standard received update
then
    if (Licht_Wohnzimmer_Standard.state == ON) {
        sendCommand(Lichtsteuerung_Wohnzimmer, 2)
    }
    if (Licht_Wohnzimmer_Standard.state == OFF) {
        sendCommand(Lichtsteuerung_Wohnzimmer, ???)
    }
end

Is there a better approach for selecting individual moods without mixing them? And if not, how to switch the LightControllerV2 off through a rule?

Thanks!

[ppieczul]

Thanks Daniel for the feedback. Let me try to address it. The ID of “all off” mood. How it works: the moods list, which includes the mappings between mood IDs and mood names is received from the mini server dynamically. This unfortunately means the ID assigned to the “all off” mood can’t be predicted until miniserver sends these mappings. For the short term, you may enable debug logs and read the ID from the log: logger.debug("Adding mood {} (name={}, isUsed={}, t5={}, static={}", mood.id, mood.name, mood.isUsed, mood.isT5Controlled, mood.isStatic); I think the ID will not change on a specific installation, but who knows what happens after the FW update, so this is not a clean way. There are several ways of resolving this long term. 1. I can expose its ID through some number item. 2. I can replace the mood IDs for the set mood number channel with simply indexes - the moods will be 1,2,3... and all off can be 0. Open question: what order of moods to assume for indexing? 3. I can create a separate switch channel to switch all moods off. What would you suggest would work best from your perspective? Second topic: Enabling/disabling individual moods. It has been currently designed on purpose that way that the main number channel is used to set single mood and channels for individual moods mix them in/out. It kind of maps what Loxone had in mind creating this controller. I have not anticipated that the mood channels can be used with Alexa the way you use them. This is actually cool. Here again we have a number of possible solutions: 1) add a configuration parameter to define if moods mix or simply set and disable other moods 2) add extra channel per each mood to set mood. We will have one channel to mix and another to set. This way you can define item names in some smart way so that you can tell Alexa to “mood A mix on” or “mood A on” What would you suggest would be best from your perspective? Thanks Pawel W dniu sob., 8.12.2018 o 04:48 Daniel Mohr <notifications@github.com> napisał(a):

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Hi, My goal is to be able to select individual lighting moods of a Loxone LightControllerV2 through Alexa, without mixing them in. The channels created for the individual moods always mix them, thus when switching to moods with fewer outputs on, I always have to say: "Alexa, Mood A off. Alexa Mood B on". This is not convenient at all. I only want to say "Alexa, Mood B on" and it should switch the A-only-outputs off. To work around this I tried creating virtual switches for the individual moods and setting the appropriate ID in the light controller Number item through rules, when the switch is toggled. This works fine (no mixing), except I'm not able to switch off all outputs in a rule. It seems like, there's no ID assigned to the "Off" mood, or at least I couldn't figure out which. This is my LightController item: Number Lichtsteuerung_Wohnzimmer "Lichtsteuerung Wohnzimmer" <light> ["Lighting"] {channel="loxone:miniserver:ac681435:126F495A-0184-E9BE-FFFFB6D057327F6C"} It shows up in Paper UI as a dropdown with the available moods, even including the "Off" mood. Through Paper UI everything is fine, also switching off all lights by selecting the "Off" mood. However, in the following rule, I didn't find the appropriate value for the "Off" mood, yet (marked with ???). Licht_Wohnzimmer_Standard is the virtual switch. rule "Licht Wohnzimmer Standard" when Item Licht_Wohnzimmer_Standard received update then if (Licht_Wohnzimmer_Standard.state == ON) { sendCommand(Lichtsteuerung_Wohnzimmer, 2) } if (Licht_Wohnzimmer_Standard.state == OFF) { sendCommand(Lichtsteuerung_Wohnzimmer, ???) } end ``` Is there a better approach for selecting individual moods without mixing them? And if not, how to switch the LightControllerV2 off through a rule? Thanks! — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#10>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AJx5fn-8oyhsYbBcbJP_Bs8FbHY6pSHnks5u26cEgaJpZM4ZJmf8> .