Do not run a rule when the virtual sensor does not change state

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Hello,

At this time when a rule is based on a virtual sensor but when the virtual sensor receive the information that is equal to its current state, the rule is run.

It could be nice to not run the rule when the state is not modified.

Otherwise, is it possible to get the state of a virtual sensor with a get? I had some difficulties to get the values of the sensors from the API, I got a lot of \u in the JSON

Regards

Fred

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Guest ●

So actually I get :

<Response [200]> - {u'uiType': u'SENSOR', u'endpoint': u'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx', u'name': u'Soleil', u'iconName': u'Sun position meter', u'attributes': {u'13': {u'timestamp': 1385838012273L, u'type': u'BOOLEAN', u'id': 13, u'value': u'false', u'name': u'state'}}, u'iconType': u'meter.sunposition', u'description': u''}

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Guest ●

Sorry, it is because it is in unicode!

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Kristian Olofsson ●

I don't understand. In WHEN condition with a virtual sensor condition active equal true and rule runs. What do you mean by modified?

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Guest ●

Actually if you send two times the request to inactive a virtual sensor and if you have a rule on INACTIVE it runs 2 times the rules even if the virtual sensor was not active

But anyway if it is not a good idea, I found a solution to my problem :).

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Kristian Olofsson ●

OK, you want a second inactive state to trigger the false state rule again. As a toggle behaviour?

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