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Hi,
I am using a Telldus TellStick Net and have two sensors and two devices which control two electric heaters. I can get things to work if I turn the heaters on/off via the Scheduler and then test using trigger events to see if the temperature is above a threshold to turn the heaters off. However, this is the only trigger event I can get to work. If I use the sensor value (and set this to be temperature) it never works. I have all combinations and the only trigger event I can get to work is when I have a time as the trigger.
The senors work on channel 1 and channel 4 and all the products are Telldus.
Does anyone have ideas as to why the Trigger Events doesn't work? Ideally I would like to use the temperature of a sensor as the trigger.

Thanks,
Mark.

In order for an event to trigger, the temperature value must pass the selected threshold value.
More reading http://developer.telldus.com/blog/2013/ ... boundaries

Hi,
Thanks for the reply.
I think I am doing it correctly, for example if the outside temperature is 10 degrees and the rearm is set to 1 and I set the trigger to be less than 15 degrees, it still won't trigger. However, if I add a time as a trigger and the same sensor as a condition, it will trigger the response to turn the heater on.

Very confusing and I am not sure how to debug to see where the problem is.

I am using windows and Telldus Live.

Thanks
Mark.

As said, the temperature value received by the Tellstick and presented on the sensor page, must pass the threshold value. If your outdoor sensor is constantly sending a temp. value of around 10 deg, the <15 deg. event will not trigger before the sensor has sent a value of >15 and then another value <15 deg.

Good luck!

Ah, that I didn't realise that it needs to be primed before it will trigger. I looked at the link for how to will re-trigger but didn't see that the initialisatin also needed a trigger.

Thanks for that - makes the logic a little more confusing.

Mark