Save and restore previous state

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Hi,

I would like to have a rule reacting to a presence detector. Light should be switched on and then restored to the previous state after a few minutes.
However, the state of the light might change in between due to other rules or manual switching.

I tried the following:

  • Global variables in the head of the rules
    var Number old_value = 0
    –> did not work, I think because variable state is not preserved after rule execution
  • Using previousState
    EG_WZ_Flur_Licht.sendCommand(EG_WZ_Flur_Licht.previousState.state)
    –> did not work well with intermediary changes of the light state due to other rules, …

Am I doing wrong? How would you handle that?

Daniel

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Incorrect. The value will be preserved until you reload that .rules file. If it didn’t work there was something else wrong with your implementation.

Show what you tried.