I’ve installed a recessed Z Wave sensor into my down stairs toilet door. The aim is to control the Hue light in my down stairs toilet. The easy part is getting the light to switch on and off when the sensor reports as open and then closed again. What I need help with is how I put some logic into th…

This should give you a good start: [image] Can someone help with this lighting rule? Scripts & Rules You’ve tested multiple times for gargelighttimer==null, but this is probably false even when the timer is not doing anything. You don’t actually need to resch…

I’ve made some progress on getting my rule working. This is what I have so far. As I’m sure you can see, I need to close the door twice to turn the light off. Generally this works fine, however we use the toilet as a cloak room. This means that when getting a coat or putting one away we only open an…

Keep a timestamp as a global var. Set the timestamp to now when the door opens. When the door closes check the timestamp with if(timestamp.isBefore(now.minusMinutes(1))

What have I got wrong with this? It’s trowing an exception and not working. import org.openhab.core.library.types.* import org.eclipse.xtext.xbase.lib.* import org.openhab.core.library.types.DateTimeType var DateTime timestamp = null rule "Hallway Motion Sensor Activation" when Item Hallway_Motio…

Since you are running OH 1.8 (apparently from the imports), you need to import org.joda.time.* so you are using the same class as now. You may need to force timestamp to be a joda DateTime as well: var org.joda.time.DateTime timestamp = null

Now getting this error; 2016-11-28 21:11:14.445 [ERROR] [o.o.c.s.ScriptExecutionThread ] - Error during the execution of rule ‘Toilet Door Closed’: cannot invoke method public boolean org.joda.time.base.AbstractInstant.isBefore(org.joda.time.ReadableInstant) on null

Better error. You are recreating the timestamp in “Toilet Door Open” rather than saving the timesatmp to the global. Change the first line of that rule to timestamp = now

:slight_smile: Getting closer now. No longer getting the error, but the rule still isn’t working as I expect it to. Oh so close I feel. Thanks for all your help Rich, hopefully it’s just something else that’s very simple.

Seems that the if statement is being ignored if(timestamp.isBefore(now.minusMinutes(1))

Well, that is actually a complicated if/else/if statement. It isn’t ignoring the timestamp if, it is simply evaluating to true, or false (you haven’t actually said in what ways it isn’t working). Add some logging statements so you can see the states of Hallway_Toilet_Occupied.state, timestamp, now,…

HELP: Door contact rule

Setup, Configuration and Use Scripts & Rules

sihui (SiHui) November 13, 2016, 5:57pm 2

This should give you a good start: