New Plugin - Occupatum - Occupancy/Presence detection

I was not aware of this plugin at all. Great plugin for handling occupancy issues.

Since many of us have DSC alarm systems with motion sensors and are using the DSC plugin, I thought about integrating those sensors in the Occupatum plugin. I made some minor changes to support DSC Alarm Motion Sensor zones and added a few other minor updates.

Of note: I made the changes first to v0.0.4 plugin under Python 2.7 and tested this version. Thanks to Durosity for also testing the plugin. I then transferred those changes to v2022.0.0 under Python 3 but did not test this version since I have not yet installed the latest Indigo app. This version was uploaded to Github for review.

I am facing a problem; I am trying to add a new zone (the first one) and the device list is empty; I get this error:

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19. May 2022 at 10:22:53
   Occupatum Error                 Error in plugin execution GetUiDynamicList:

  File "plugin.py", line 298, in sensorDevices
type: name 'unicode' is not defined



It works if I replace

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unicode

with

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str

That’s a bug. Put this in GitHub please.

Amazingly handy plugin, it's simplified a lot of things for me! Would it be possible for you to add a device state that'd show the countdown timer for each device's current state? Ideally if possible it'd show one state for total seconds and one showing for whole minutes.

Amazingly handy plugin, it's simplified a lot of things for me! Would it be possible for you to add a device state that'd show the countdown timer for each device's current state? Ideally if possible it'd show one state for total seconds and one showing for whole minutes.

Not as it's currently designed, no. The timers are all done with Python Timer objects, so the plugin doesn't get any updates on the remaining duration of the timers until it actually expires and triggers the callback. That code is much simpler than having to loop and handle the countdowns in my code.

This looks like a great plugin. If I were to be starting fresh with no devices , what are some of the hardware / sensor / trigger solutions that have worked best with this plugin?

Also, can devices that report lat / long be used ?

This looks like a great plugin. If I were to be starting fresh with no devices , what are some of the hardware / sensor / trigger solutions that have worked best with this plugin?

Also, can devices that report lat / long be used ?

The plugin only uses "sensor" devices - something that reports true/false. All the logic in the plugin is boolean based on the sensors. Motion sensors obviously. Geofencing would require something external to the plugin to report a true/false value, such as a script that populates a variable which is then made available using a Virtual Device. The Masquerade plugin would be useful for converting a non-sensor device state to the sensor device needed.

Amazingly handy plugin, it's simplified a lot of things for me! Would it be possible for you to add a device state that'd show the countdown timer for each device's current state? Ideally if possible it'd show one state for total seconds and one showing for whole minutes.

This is being tracked in https://github.com/FlyingDiver/Indigo-O ... m/issues/6

You might want to chime in there.

Nice work - i'm catching up on this new plugin - always thought a solid Occupancy plugin was needed in Indigo! I've implemented similar capabilities in a brute force manner - using a mix of Triggers, Timers, and custom scripts. These work pretty well, but each time I go to add a new one or make any change it's a bit of a hassle remembering all of the touch points.

Any chance you can give a run down of what's all baked into the plugin. Sounds like Occupatum manages the timers and sensor triggers - any other goodies in there?

Any chance you can give a run down of what's all baked into the plugin. Sounds like Occupatum manages the timers and sensor triggers - any other goodies in there?

There's really three parts. Boolean logic to combine multiple sensors into one "zone", with any/all conditions. Delay timers for both on and off transitions, and then triggers when a zone becomes occupied or unoccupied. There's also a force off delay option, mainly for zones with any "any change" sensor logic.

Thanks for the details Joe. Definitely a big improvement over setting up all the various pieces manually.

One aspect i've customized via scripts is related to definition of 'Occupied'. I use the occupancy for Climate Control features - basically turning on/off Ceiling Fans and/or Space Heaters. For these features, I'm not wanting to turn these the devices ON unless there is a good confidence level that someone is 'really' occupying the room and not just quickly in-n-out. I've tried a couple of different implementations for determining 'Occupied':
1) number of motion sensor triggers over a time interval - i.e. 5 triggers in 10 min
2) total number of seconds with motion 'ON' over a time interval - such as 120 seconds over a 10 min interval

I'm curious for feedback if the 'Occupancy Detection' algos mentioned above are of interest. Maybe already on the roadmap

The plugin does simultaneous input logic, but I've never really looked into sequential or cumulative inputs. If you have suggestions on how that should work, please open an issue on the GitHub page for the plugin.

Sure - will-do.. BTW I don't claim to be an expert on these algos, just some stuff I've tinkered with in my house that's added value

Amazingly handy plugin, it's simplified a lot of things for me! Would it be possible for you to add a device state that'd show the countdown timer for each device's current state? Ideally if possible it'd show one state for total seconds and one showing for whole minutes.

Try this test version: https://github.com/FlyingDiver/Indigo-O ... states.zip

States are just float numbers for remaining timer value. If you want minutes and seconds, use a script to put them in variables.

Still waiting on feedback on the test version I posted last weekend.