Question - can't verify it's working, and helper groups

[bf8392]

Hi =) I just tested your integration, and I can't verify that it's actaully working...how can I do that? What I did:

1) Created a group under "helper - create group - switches - choose the entities 2) Setet up presence simulation integration according to manual 3) turned on (which it did without error). set it up to check every 10 seconds, switched the light manually -> nothing happened

Am I doing something wrong?

[slashback100]

You should not switch it manually. It wont't do nothing. To check that the simulation works, look at the attributes of the switch.presence_simulation

[bf8392]

So when I switch manually, it won't switch back after the seconds checking to it's historical state? Sorry the question but what do you mean by "look at the attributes". (Restoring previous state works when I turn on the switch.presencesimulation over ui)

[slashback100]

What have you set for the attribute 'delta'? By default, it is 7 days. So it means that if you switch manually your light now, it is only in 7 days from now that the simulation will switch it. The refresh interval parameter (if that's what you're actually talking about) is the time the simulation waits before re-checking whether a device should be switched, it is a technical parameter that doesn't affect the behavior.

[slashback100]

When I'm talking about looking, I'm talking about going in here , and look at the attributes column for the switch.presence_simulation entity

[bf8392]

So when I turn the presence simulation on, it doesn't repeat the historic state, it just records it from then on? I'm sorry I don't get it....I thought it works the following -> When I turn it on, the integration looks for historic light switches, 7 days before today, and then repeats them, to simulate someone is at home...

[bf8392]

entity_id:
  - light.lumiere_dans_la_salle_a_manger
friendly_name: presence_simulation_scene

This is what it shows (just for testing purposeses)

[bf8392]

''' friendly_name: Presence Simulation restore_states: true random: 0 simulation_start: 2022-08-23T14:13:39.896420+02:00 entity_id: light.lumiere_dans_la_salle_a_manger delta: 7 next_event_datetime: 30/08/2022 13:43:31 next_entity_id: light.lumiere_dans_la_salle_a_manger next_entity_state: on

[slashback100]

So when I turn the presence simulation on, it doesn't repeat the historic state, it just records it from then on? I'm sorry I don't get it....I thought it works the following -> When I turn it on, the integration looks for historic light switches, 7 days before today, and then repeats them, to simulate someone is at home...

Yes, it works as you describes it. I'm just saying that if you have set the delta to 7 days, and switch your light manually now, you will only see the automatic switch in 7 days.

Regarding your last answer, the presence simulation is currently running and will switch your light in one week.

[bf8392]

? but to that time 7 weeks before the light was off...so I thought as soon as the presence eimualtion detects that the light is on, but was off 7 days ago, it will turn it off again...

[bf8392]

that way it will replay all the historic states, and you can verify it working =) if it's just switching one time in 7 days, it won't work as described...

[slashback100]

The simulation will redo what as been done during the 7 last days, and relaunch the simulation in 7 days to start over until shut down. If you manually switch the light during the simulation (which is not supposed to happen since it is a presence simulation so it is supposed to run when you are not home 😄) the presence simulation won't see it, and it won't do anything about it.

[bf8392]

AHHHHH Okay I see =) Great thanks for the clarification =). Do you think it would be possible that the presence simulation is seeing it in future updates? =)

[bf8392]

what group should I use? I tried it with switch, but it doesn't seem to work...

[slashback100]

Do you think it would be possible that the presence simulation is seeing it in future updates? =)

Not planned no 😃

what group should I use?

Should work with switches group, But in your example you are testing with a light, so I'd suggest a lights group.

[bf8392]

When I first switch on the presence simulation, does it actualize the state? Because it doesn't seem so...

[bf8392]

I tested tonight it works perfectly! :-) great great thanks for your help!