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How to program 3 modes of operation

Jos Cilissen shared this question ago

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I have a summer house that i want to control from

a distance

There are 3 modes for the house

1. Empty ( not occupied )

2. Rented as a holiday house

3. Occupied by my self

I want to program these 3 modes

The “house” should react in different ways

1. If I am not there it should be in alarm

mode activated and some rules should be applied

2. When it is rented some other rules should

be applied to make it simple to use the zipa box , actually deactivate about all rules

3. When I am there it should be intelligent

and some other rules needs to be applied

I have created some rules and these must be

applied to one of these 3 modes

But I can not find directly how to apply this

I can only activate or deactivate a rule

With the scenes I can not associate the rules ..

My question is how to create the 3 modes and how to

apply the different rules to these 3 modes

So i can choose which of the 3 modes to activate

Can you please advise me how to do this

Thanks in advance

Greets

Jos

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Adrian Van Der Heijden ●

Maybe through a virtual switch. Create a virtual switch (named home/rent or whatever) that you can trigger, and in the rules make them only activate if this trigger is on/off etc. plus your other requirement for the rule to activate.

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Slashroot ●

1. Use a Keypad to arm the system when you leave, just use the mobile app/ webinterface to arm or make use of rules with geolocation (Geofancy, Life360 and IFTTT.com etc)

2. Make a virtual switch Guest ON/OFF and base rules on the state

3. By adding devices and creations of rules that suite your need (you could even go as far as different actions based on who is in the house....)

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Adrian Van Der Heijden ●

Yes I was thinking something similar, using tasker and Imperihome apps for android. Using geofences with tasker you can trigger a virtual switch on in imperihome when you are in range of the house. Then all rules would use the "and variable" in you control block along with the trigger you already have. Then these rules would only activate once the trigger you already have established "and" the vitual switch is on.

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Jos Cilissen ●

nice to have an answer after 2 years ... :-)

In the meantime I have swithed to the Fibaro Home Center 2

Here I have created a virtual switch which set a variable to value 0,1 or 2

And I am using this variable in a lot of scenes

working great ... !!!

Also possible to use with geoloation ( build in with fibaro ) but I am not using it

I have tried it , but I don't really need it

I still use the Zipato as there is a add for 443 MHz modules , and I had a lot of Easy home modules at home

For the other house I use Fibaro and only Zwave

Thanks anyway

greets

Jos

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Adrian Van Der Heijden ●

Sorry Jos, it seems the zipato community has grown alot over the last twelve months. We are still a long way behind the vera community and the like, but we will get there. It's seems strange you could accomplish what you wanted with Fibaro but never tried it with the Zipabox.

How have you found the two systems after using them side by side?

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Jos Cilissen ●

Hi Adrian

This is a difficult question

I have 2 Fibabro and 1 Zipato and worked a lot more with Fibaro

I don't like the interface of Zipato , the old style was better

Fibaro is much better on this , alss on the tablet and the Phone

there are some +and - for both systems

but like the GPS position is build in with fibaro

and with the Lua code you can do a lot more then the block mode

but not easy to program

Zipato is easy to use , but limited , Fibaro has more possibilities , but of course it cost a lot more , so it is obvious that it can do more

Fibaro has a lot of their own modules with lots of posibilities which are perfectly integrated with the HC2

I use the 443 module , so that is handy for Zipato , but not possible with Fibaro

etc , etc ...

but at the end I prefer the fibaro , may be because I have worked more with the fibaro

greets

jos

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Adrian Van Der Heijden ●

Hi Jos, thanks for the reply, I looked at Fibaro about 12 months ago and did not have the GPS function then. Also a lot of other add-ons/module were costly (although Zipato is going this way now). Their range of products was limited too and being only Z-wave I thought to future proof our system.

I agree the interface is a lot nicer, and more user friendly. I use the Imperihome app as a general Interface though, more customisable and loads quicker. Also gives me the ability to use it with Tasker. With Tasker and android, it actually makes it an Automation System. I can use GPS, NFC, Voice, settings, my own overlays on apps etc.

I also like the ability to use Enocean sensors to eliminate the use of battteries. I haven't got into the Lua code, but I would have thought using the Zipabox API would be similar.

Thanks for you feedback. It is always good to hear the good and bad points of a system.

Kind Regards

Adrian

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Ziggiz ●

https://community.zipato.com/topic/modes-buttons_1

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