Button "rollingTime" in DummyShutter

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Hi,
can anybody tell me
for what is the button rollingTime at the DummyShutter?
What can be triggered?

I can´t display that

Thanks

@Masterplayer this is why pimatic has documentation…

https://pimatic.org/pages/config/

rollingTime number
Approx. amount of time (in seconds) for shutter to close or open completely.

Hi,
i know the documentation but my question was:
what can i do with this config?

Thanks

@Masterplayer … Rly? Im sorry but the page shows what it is for: rollingTime number
Approx. amount of time (in seconds) for shutter to close or open completely.

Its a number addition so your shutter would know how long to operate… If your shutter takes 30 op seconds to close, the value is 30…

Its nothing more and nothing less. Not a button.

I think I do not need to explain here whether I read the documentation or not …
I know it!
If I had understood the function of this variable, I would not have asked here in the forum!

So again, what is the function of this number? When I enter a value there, e.g. 30sec. And I press up or down should the status of the dummy shutter after this time then go back to stop?

This is not the case. At the moment I see no sense in this variable, therefore the, I think legitimate, question.

Thanks

well yes, the question is a good one, since i just tried it myself and cannot get any usefull execution on that.

here’s the request on that
https://forum.pimatic.org/topic/1893/support-for-shutter-percentage

@michbeck100 can you pls. review this? maybe there’ a bug?
i tried to use it with the dummy shutter and there is no possibility to create a rule with move shutter to 50% for me

@leader21
thank you, that was my question!

Now, i can wait if there is any solution on this bug.

Thanks

There is no bug here. It’s just that pimatic doesn’t support moving the shutter by rules when using percentage. I did ask for help to implement this, but nothing happened yet. For now you can use the action moveByPercentage via the REST API. I’m curious if it works for you since i couldn’t test it with real devices 😬

ok thx for clarification. for me it does not make sense to call this via api from inside of pimatic. @mwittig can you have a look if you get some spare time?

@michbeck100
Thanks but what @leader21 said. It makes no sense for me too. But at least nice idea.

Maybe i could “re awaken” this project

Just to make things clear: this new action was just the beginning. Of course it needs some more than this, but once the rules for shutters are extended, the frontend can be extended too. After that it’s possible to move your shutter to specific positions, not just up and down.
I tried to extend the rules but I couldn’t get to work. That’s why I asked for help.

Your idea was almost clear to me and i find it good.
now i have solved the, (google mean) shading… with rules like this:

when…

then move Jalousie WC down for 14seconds and move Jalousie-Süd Arbeiten down for 14seconds and …

but over the devices its more elegant.

I know it old stuff, but will there come any adaption of the rollingTime parameter like release the UI button from up/down state. That would be really nice. Currently you know it will be always in up/down, even the shutter are already in end position. Perfekt would be to use the rollingTime as well for releasing the buttons.

@OrTiN This would need a feature request on the pimatic-mobile-frontend plugin. At the moment this feature is still sleeping and can be used just via the REST api.

I found a for me work way. I set the DummyShutter to stop (at the end of the rule) within the rule which is responsible to run up/down.

when 
position of jalousien-sued is down 
then 
execute "sh /home/pi/Homation/jalousien.sh sued runter 18 >/dev/null 2>&1 || true" and stop jalousien-sued after 30 seconds