Help needed with simple coding

Hi guys,

I would love it if some one could help me with a problem please.I have a customer with a sensor in the toilet of there house. They would like to have the sensor ramp the downlights up slowly to say 60% when the sensor is activated between a certain time (say 11pm to 5am). And at all other times have the sensor just turn the light on as normal. I have a wiser unit in the installation so i have been trying to do it with a little logic but keep coming up with compile errors and cant work out the best way to do it.

I have set the output of the sensor to "toilet control" for both day move and night move. And the actuall relay output to "us31". I have written it into logic where when the toilet control is active and between these times switch us31 or if its between the hours of 11pm to 5am ramp us31 to 60% over 10s. This is obviously a ruff example but im finding no mater how i write it,it just wont work????

Any help is a good help.

Thanks Brenton

 

Hi Nick. dont know if i am on the right track or not. Here is what i have writen.

once GetLightingState("toilet light control")=ON and
((Time > SunSet) and (Time < SunRise)) then
SetLightingLevel("us31", 100%, "12s");
end;
until
GetLightingState("toilet light control")=OFF then
SetLightingLevel("us31", 0%, "12s");
end;

once GetLightingState("toilet light control")=on and
((Time < SunSet) and (Time > SunRise)) then
SetLightingState("us31", ON);
end;
until
GetLightingState("toilet light control")=off then
SetLightingState("us31", OFF);
end;

Any help is a great help.

Cheers Brenton

 

Hi Brenton

You definitely have a problem with

it can never be before sunrise and after sunset on the same day - you need to use OR in this case. I fell into the same trap when I started doing this sort of thing with PIRs.

Also, I always err on the side of too many brackets and begin/end pairs.

I'm not sure you can use

the way you have.

I would normally have a separate piece of code for "once the PIR goes off".

There's other ways to do this but one way would be...

Code:

once ((GetLightingState("toilet light control") = ON) and ((Time >= SunSet) or (Time <= SunRise))) then
begin
  SetLightingLevel("us31", 60%, "12s");
end;



once ((GetLightingState("toilet light control") = ON) and ((Time < SunSet) and (Time > SunRise))) then
begin
  SetLightingState("us31", ON);
end;


once (GetLightingState("toilet light control") = OFF) then
begin
  SetLightingState("us31", OFF);
end;

Hope that helps.

Cheers

Matt

 

So simple and i was scratching my head for ages! Your code works a treat.

Thanks heaps matt!