Help needed with event

email68 · #1 November 25th, 2009, 03:37 AM

Does anyone know what is wrong with my logic on this event. As far as I can tell when all the conditions are met, it never fires the action.

nightwalker · #2 November 25th, 2009, 06:44 AM

I guess I would be checking the values on both the motion and the alarm status to see that they are getting to what you actually want. For testing purposes it might be easier to temporally remove the times from the equation and add those back in when everything else works.

Anytime I have trouble with event conditions I start with one condition and build it from there adding a new ones as I go so I know things are going as I expect.

Knobblywobbly · #3 November 25th, 2009, 07:33 AM

Try creating an event (X) to run the conditional event (Y). Then run event (X) and see if it works.

email68 · #4 November 25th, 2009, 10:56 AM

Thanks guys. I'll try that. Just wanted to make sure I was not overlooking something obvious.

RAM · #5 November 25th, 2009, 12:49 PM

When I have an event that I think should fire but doesn't, I set up a test event that just does a series of hs.writelog's of the variables that the events is checking. In your case you could do:
hs.writelog "JDS CaddxAlarmStatus = ", hs.devicevaluebyname "JDS CaddxAlarmStatus"
hs.writelog "JDS Vacation = ", hs.devicestatus "A1" (substitute whatever JDS Vacation's HC/DC is for A1)
Manually run this event and see if the results verify what you think the devices actual states are.

email68 · #6 November 26th, 2009, 12:34 AM

Thanks guys. Your technique worked. Helped narrow it down to the motion detector.

I was trying to trigger off the motion detector going to faulted, however, it was in bypass since the alarm was in home/stay mode. I never considered this w/o going the step by step deduction process.

The fix was to use the digital input from SG since I have the motion detector looping through it before the alarm for faster response.

Thanks again.

Tim