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Global variables with values, to be used in scenario's/flows

AthomeyAthomey Member
edited September 2015 in Archive

@Emile: Is it possible to declare global variables within the GUI, for e.g. colors/brightness for themes in my house, which I can then use in flows/scenario's? For example, I want to create ~9 flows which change lights for romantic/work/lounge moods, and in those flows use values if globally set variables. What this will solve, is that I can change the color of a 'mood' in one single place, instead of having to change the colors of all the lights, or groups of lights in all 9 flows. Would be a huge timesaver, especially commercially speaking when implementing/changing this in houses of clients, or for the Domotica-hobbyists you target. (I read all posts in the forum and searched, but haven't found an answer to this yet.)

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  • EmileEmile Administrator, Athom

    Nope, sorry! The use case is too limited to add this functionality.

  • AthomeyAthomey Member
    edited September 2015

    In my opinion it would make tuning ANY serious Domotica set-up much and much more consistent, less error-prone, less redundant and more time (and thus cost) efficient. However, lets agree to disagree. :-)

    Lets talk alternatives.

    @Emile, is it possible to change code of scripts from the inside of another script? This would be a nice alternative. Then I could write a driver/app/whatever, which can be used to configure values in a whole set of scenario's/flows. Looking forward to your answer.

  • EmileEmile Administrator, Athom

    Yes, you can create/update/delete flows with the API :-)

  • AthomeyAthomey Member

    Good enough! Thx!

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