Load a variable of pimatic from a mysensor node

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Hi,

I built a Mysensor Node with Temp, PIR and Relays in it.
The Sensor Nodes detect motion with the PIR and send this to the “server”. Within Pimatic I have rules to send back “Turn on the Relay” and the relay on the sensor node turns on.

I would like to add an “offline mode” for the sensor, so if the server isn’t reachable the sensor realizes this and automatically switchs on the relais in his own node.

• I would like to store a bool information in a variable on the Pimatic-server like “Alarmmode”. How can I load this variable from a node?
  I have seen receiveTime as function. I need something like "receive variable"
  How can I do this?

As I have multiples of those combined nodes I would like to have sensor-independent variable, kind of a global variable in pimatic.

Thanks for your help,
Segelmann
P.S. I also asked this in the mysensors forum, because I think it has to do with both worlds…

Hi,
requesting a specific variable is not supported (yet, I hope it will be).
What is supported though is requesting the status of a child device (your relay). When you request this status and there is no answer for a while, you know the server is offline.
I’ve done this in a similar way (for dimmers), see https://github.com/rikki78/Dimmer. The library to monitor the controller is here https://github.com/rikki78/OwnLibraries

I hope it is useful for you!

Hi, thank you for your response.

Yes I really think thats missing. In the meantime I solved it with the function RequestTime, so I can check if the sensor is still “online”. If it is not, the sensor directly handles activating light by a PIR, instead of leeting the server do this according to time-definitions…

Thank you !