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toggledbits / Reactor

Reactor (for Vera and openLuup) is a Vera Home Automation plugin that provides advanced programmable logic.
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Add built-in execution of scenes #3

Closed toggledbits closed 5 years ago

toggledbits commented 6 years ago

At the moment, I'm thinking that duplicating Vera's scene editor to create Reactor's own "Action" tab would be a large code increment for a relatively small benefit. Basically, doing it would just reimplement Vera's existing scene actions. So, I'm leaning away from doing it that way, because I think I can fix the two biggest problems with Vera scenes: (a) they don't complete if Vera reboots/Luup reloads, and (b) you can't stop them during execution.

So, my current plan is for Reactor to have its own scene execution, but leave the editing/creation of scenes in the hands of the existing Vera UI. You would create your scene in the existing Vera UI, but rather than specify the ReactorSensor as a trigger for the scene, you will configure the ReactorSensor to run the scene from within Reactor's configuration tabs.

As always, discussion around this idea is welcome. I can go either way, I'm just leaning toward keeping Reactor as lightweight as possible, to maximize its utility on older hardware, and keep its performance up on all platforms.

toggledbits commented 6 years ago

Work is in progress. Slated for v2.0 (major version change)

toggledbits commented 5 years ago

I ended up doing this in v1.5. I've now changed my opinion on actions, and realize that a built-in scene editor is a necessity for Reactor. This is slated for 2.0.