Groups of events in macros....

[krambriw]

Hi,

I have a suggestion regarding the use of events in macros to start actions. Normally you define a macro, add one or more actions to it and an event that will trigger execution.

If you add more events to a macro it seems that this is basically an OR function.

I think it could be valuable to have also an "AND within time window" function.

Assume you could create a group and add event to it. Then instead of adding a single event, you add the "event group" to the macro.

Like the example below, the macro should execute if the events appears in the shown order within the defined and configurable time window

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event_1 AND event_2 AND event_3

(If all the events happens within 5 minutes, then execute the macro)

Best regards, Walter

[CollinR]

I like this idea, and I somewhat already use it. However it's done before it gets to EventGhost.

My CCTV system notifies EG of motion on each camera, however in the DVR I have it set to also signal if cam2+cam4 both have motion as a different event. This is nice for me as the DVR allows for that. I use it to cut down on false alarms.