Macro Wait until event or condition

[jlutsky]

Hello!

I have a macro with a python script that I want to delay running until a certain variable condition is met once the macro is initially triggered. Is there a way to "Wait for Event" or program some sort of loop that continues to check the variable condition until it's met, and re-trigger the same macro, without locking up the rest of the system?

[Pako]

This requires some scripting.
But maybe it can be done differently if you tell us the details of your intentions.

Pako

[jlutsky]

This requires some scripting.
But maybe it can be done differently if you tell us the details of your intentions.

Pako

-First I trigger a 'Speech' macro via HTTP and send along a string via payload to speak out loud. The speech macro first toggles on a z-wave relay device via the Vera plugin to activate my house speaker system before speaking. Then after speaking it toggles off the z-wave relay.
-Then I trigger a 2nd macro via HTTP that powers down an amplifier via RS232. The thing is, even though I send both HTTP triggers one after another, to separate macros, I need to wait until the z-wave relay has been toggled back off in the first macro before the 2nd macro does it's RS232 stuff.

[Pako]

I made a picture that would illustrate the situation.

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I understand this correctly?
Here offer other important issues, otherwise I can not continue.
How will I know, that the z-wave relay is off ?
The time between the command to toggle off the z-wave relay and its real switch-off is highly variable?

Pako

[jlutsky]

I made a picture that would illustrate the situation.

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I understand this correctly?
Here offer other important issues, otherwise I can not continue.
How will I know, that the z-wave relay is off ?
The time between the command to toggle off the z-wave relay and its real switch-off is highly variable?

Pako

Here is a screen grab of my specific setup.

On my Vera, I send off 2 HTTP requests to EventGhost, one right after the other.

http://192.168.x.x:8082/?House.Speak&TextToSpeakOutLoud
http://192.168.x.x:8082/?MonoAmp.Control&0&Power&0

Even though both HTTP events are being triggered from my Vera at the same time, the 2nd event 'MonoAmp.Control' needs to wait to execute it's python script until the first event 'House.Speak' finishes speaking, and subsequently triggers the 'Relay Off' macro.

[Pako]

I do not understand the configuration.
1) Why do you need that event HTTP.MnoAmp.Control, when both events (along with HTTP.House.Speak) you are sending at the same time?
2) Why the event Speek.SpeakingFinished.0 is not used directly in the macro MonoAmp.Control?
3) What is the point of the variable IsSpeaking ? It is used anywhere else?

Pako

[jlutsky]

I do not understand the configuration.
1) Why do you need that event HTTP.MnoAmp.Control, when both events (along with HTTP.House.Speak) you are sending at the same time?
2) Why the event Speek.SpeakingFinished.0 is not used directly in the macro MonoAmp.Control?
3) What is the point of the variable IsSpeaking ? It is used anywhere else?

Pako

1-2) In other scenarios I sent just HTTP.House.Speak without any MonoAmp control. And in other scenarios I send just HTTP.MnoAmp.Control without speaking anything. They have independent uses, in addition to being used together sometimes.
3) IsSpeaking was a hold over variable from something else. I can get rid of that now.

[Pako]

I have a supplementary question:
It is possible (in this particular case) omit the event HTTP.MonoAmp.Control?
If so, it seems that the problem is solved.
Into the macro MonoAmp.Control simply add another event (Speek.SpeakingFinished.0).

Pako

[jlutsky]

I have a supplementary question:
It is possible (in this particular case) omit the event HTTP.MonoAmp.Control?
If so, it seems that the problem is solved.
Into the macro MonoAmp.Control simply add another event (Speek.SpeakingFinished.0).

Pako

No, because I need to pass several parameters to the MonoAmp.control macro as well. Parameters like the channel to control, the command (like power or volume) and a value. These parameters change, and I send them via the HTTP URL.

... I actually think I found a solution using the following python script for MonoAmp.Control. The only issue here is that it stores the initial payload in global variables. I'd much rather pass the payload directly each time, but Timer plugin doesn't support payload. If another HTTP.MonoAmp.Control event gets triggered while the first one is still going, the global variables don't work right.

import urllib

def run():
if eg.globals.MonoAmpPA == 0:
eg.globals.i = 0
if eg.globals.Channel == 0:
url = 'http://192.168.0.4:50230/api/Command?command=' + eg.globals.Command + '&value=' + eg.globals.Value
rllib.urlopen(url)
else:
url = 'http://192.168.0.4:50230/api/Command?unit=1&channel=' + eg.globals.Channel + '&command=' + eg.globals.Command + '&value=' + eg.globals.Value
urllib.urlopen(url)
#print url
else:
#strEvent = "u\'ReTry[" + xChannel + "," + xCommand + "," + xValue + "]\'"
#eg.plugins.Timer.TimerAction(u'SomeName', 0, 1, 1.0, strEvent, False, True, 1, u'00:00:00')
eg.plugins.Timer.TimerAction(u'SomeName', 0, 1, 1.0, u'Timer.ReTry', False, True, 1, u'00:00:00')

if eg.globals.i == 0:
eg.globals.i = 1
eg.globals.Channel = eg.event.payload[0]
eg.globals.Command = eg.event.payload[1]
eg.globals.Value = eg.event.payload[2]

run()

[Pako]

I think this is a better way:
1) The payload you can attach to the event HTTP.House.Speak
2) In the macro House.Speak you can add something like

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eg.globals.myPayload = eg.event.payload[1:]

3) The script in the macro MonoAmp.Control can start with something like this:

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payload = eg.event.payload if eg.event.payload is not None else eg.globals.myPayload

Pako