previousState in rules causes script error

[rossko57]

The documentation says previousState will be available in any rule triggered by change. Your rule is triggered by an update.

I’m surprised that doesn’t work too, but it does agree with the documentation.

Here’s an example of implicit previousState working for other people

Get item previous state in a rule

Solved: // ###########Cinema v2 rule "Cinema scene Level selection" when Item Scene_Cinema changed then switch(Scene_Cinema.state) { case 0 : return false //no selection case 1 : { //Level I if (previousState == 8) return false //logInfo("TEST ", "sendCommand(D2, DOWN)" sendCommand(D2, DOWN) } case 2 : { …