isBefore no longer works?

[Andrew_Rowe]

@jonwhitear

I have found using the on/off state for phone presence unreliable. I’m using iPhones and the network binding.

no iphone, works fine for me

@jonwhitear

are your LastBoxOpen and LastBoxBuzz items defined as DateTime types and initialised somewhere?

items

DateTime LastBoxOpen "last time door opened" <none> (gHome, gPersist)
DateTime LastBoxBuzz "last time motion detected" <none> (gHome)

initialization rule

//Wasp start up rule
// initialize wasp in box unbound item values from null
rule "WaspSystemStart"
when
    System started
then
    WaspInBox.postUpdate(OFF)
    WaspConf.postUpdate(0)
    LastBoxOpen.postUpdate(new DateTimeType(now.toString))
    LastBoxBuzz.postUpdate(new DateTimeType(now.toString))
    BoxTimer.postUpdate(OFF)
end

you do release this is my thread right

Rule Example Wasp in Box

This is a very simple implementation of the ‘wasp in box’ algorithm for detecting overall presence. In home automation very often, we want the system to do certain things, but only if someone is home. Thus, this concept can almost be considered a foundation for lots of other decision making. This example is a very rudimentary implementation but I run this rule and it works in openHAB on my system and I hope others can learn from this simple example or use it for a starting point and improve it. …

thanks for your help Jon. I was just starting clean to test 2.5M5 and copying my rules over from the old install.