[ANSWERED]Stuck in a square circle

So I have 2 Action Groups, one for when I leave the house when it's daylight, and one for when I leave and it's dark. I trigger either one of these two groups depending on what time it is when I leave the house, but I'd like to combine these so that I just press one button, and then depending on the Condition of Daylight or Dark, the right Action Group activates.

But I can't really figure out how to make that happen. Conditions are only available in Triggers and Schedules. I could set up two Triggers, one for day and one for night, but don't see a way to activate both from a Trigger. I could set up a day schedule and night schedule, but likewise don't see a way to have a Trigger fire off a schedule.

Since only one set of Conditions apply to all Actions in both Triggers and Schedules, I'm stuck... I just can't figure out the logical steps to make this happen with the tools I have.


Any suggestions ??

Perhaps placing an AppleScript like this within a trigger will help:

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tell application "IndigoServer"
   if value of variable "isDaylight" is "true" then
      execute group "Your Action Group Day"
   else
      execute group "Your Action Group Night"
   end if
end tell

[jay (support)]

There are quite a few different ways to approach this. The script is a good choice. Another non-script option is to create two triggers which fire when the button is pressed - one with each condition (If dark and If daylight) which executes the appropriate action group. So when you press the button both triggers fire, but only the right set of actions get executed.

By the way, here's the Python version of the script for completeness:

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if indigo.variables["isDaylight"].value == "true":
    indigo.actionGroup.execute(DAYLIGHTACTIONGROUPID)
else:
    indigo.actionGroup.execute(DARKACTIONGROUPID)

You'll want to use the IDs of the action groups so if you rename them the script will continue to work.

Before anyone jumps in here, I usually encourage people to use the ID of the object rather than the name - but in the case of the isDaylight variable, it's a readonly variable that's always there (the server creates and maintains it) and it's unlikely we'll ever change the name of it (famous last words).

Thanks for the tips..... I'm just now realizing that the one button - two trigger option is possible... this is an 8 button Keypad... and I'm not sure why I never thought of this before... I guess I was stuck on one button-one trigger mentality, but can see now that it doesn't have to be that way.

I'm only know enough about Apple Script to get me in trouble, but when someone writes one for me, (thanks), it's hard not to plug it in, and mess around to get it to work, which looks like it should be a piece of cake.

Thanks to both ideas...

JT

You'll want to use the IDs of the action groups so if you rename them the script will continue to work.

how do you that in applescript?

[jay (support)]

how do you that in applescript?

You can't. AppleScript can't (and will never) use device IDs. Trust me - you wanna switch to Python.

how do you that in applescript?

You can't. AppleScript can't (and will never) use device IDs. Trust me - you wanna switch to Python.

advice taken
learning to convert over to python.

can't get this to work embedded in Indigo

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import subprocess
theValues = subprocess.check_output('hwmonitor -f -tv', shell=True)

get
embedde script: 'module' object has no attribue 'check_output'

figured it out…

needed to use Popen for 2.5