The plugin Management of shutters will allow you to easily manage the automatic positioning of your shutters according to the elevation and azimuth of the sun and / or other conditions of your choice. All calculations are carried out directly by the plugin without requiring an internet connection.
Well understood, this plugin is able to replace all the scenarios relating to the opening, closing or positioning of your shutters. You can find an example of use by reading this blog article written by Loïc.
Important
The plugin Management of shutters only works with equipment that has an action / cursor command allowing to position the shutter at a certain opening / closing percentage. If your shutter only works when opening / closing, the plugin will not be usable.
The plugin Management of shutters just needs to be enabled after installation and does not require further configuration.
To access the various equipment of Management of shutters, you have to go to the menu Plugins → Automation → Shutters Management.
INFORMATION
The button + Add allows you to add a new shutter to automate.
All of the automation configuration for each component is carried out from the first tab of the equipment :
Below, we will be able to configure the automatic management engine itself :
Example : the system closes the shutter then you open it manually a few minutes later, then the automatic management will only be done if Regain control is at “Yes” or that the recovery time has passed or that the command Take over management is triggered.
Important
The “modes” mentioned here relate to the modes defined from the tab Commands of each plugin equipment Shutters management and do not in any way refer to any plugin modes Mode.
Subsequently it will be necessary to indicate the coordinates of the building to be able to calculate the position of the sun :
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Finally, all that remains is to fill in the information relating to the control of the shutter :
This tab will allow you to define specific rules that will be an exception to the conditions relating to the position of the sun in the following tab. The rules are checked one after the other, the automatic management engine stops at the first valid rule and places the shutter in the indicated position.
#hour# == 1022
the immediate exception will not work. Same for variables.It is within this tab that you will be able to manage the positioning of the shutter automatically according to the position of the sun.
TRICK
The site suncalc.org allows, once your address entered, to visualize the position of the sun and the angles of azimuth and elevation according to the hours of the day (just drag the little sun up).
This tab only appears if the plugin Agenda is installed on your Jeedom. It lists the programming of the plugin Agenda acting on the automatic management of this component to, for example, plan a suspension and a manual resumption during a child’s nap hours.
This last tab gives access to the list of commands and allows to define / delete modes for the automatic management of the shutter :
It is of course possible to use the values of the commands Azimuth sun and Sun rise elsewhere in Jeedom.
This is the command that must be executed to switch back to automatic management if you have changed the position of your shutter manually and configured Regain control at “No”.
The blue button Add a mode allows you to add a new action command whose name will correspond to the new current mode from the moment it is executed.
TRICK
You can, for example, define a mode Day and a mode Night and adjust the opening and closing of your shutter according to these 2 modes.
The plugin Management of shutters has a window Health, on the general equipment page, which allows you to view at a glance the configurations of each automatic management.
The plugin also has a management panel available both in desktop and mobile version. To activate it, just go to Plugins → Plugins management, click on the plugin Shutters management and check the boxes to display the panels at the bottom right.