Snapshot Driver

[ajd123]

I want to take a snapshot of the house prior to an alarm event.  When the alarm is cleared, I want it to restore the house as it was prior to the alarm event.

1) How do I select what lights, blinds, TV's etc are taken with a snapshot.  In programming, it seems I just have the option to take a snapshot of the room where the driver is located.

2) I have multiple instances of the snapshot driver in my project (in a couple of different rooms).  Is there any reason why I would want more than one snapshot driver?

 

[msgreenf]

Look at the driver properties and this will answer your question 

[Amr]

2 hours ago, ajd123 said:

I want to take a snapshot of the house prior to an alarm event.  When the alarm is cleared, I want it to restore the house as it was prior to the alarm event.

1) How do I select what lights, blinds, TV's etc are taken with a snapshot.  In programming, it seems I just have the option to take a snapshot of the room where the driver is located.

2) I have multiple instances of the snapshot driver in my project (in a couple of different rooms).  Is there any reason why I would want more than one snapshot driver?

 

1) Choose the items you want a specific instance of the driver to take the snapshots of and then you have the two actions to take!

2) No issues, one per room if you want, u can add other resources from other rooms as well

[ajd123]

8 hours ago, msgreenf said:

Look at the driver properties and this will answer your question 

Got it.  Don't know how I missed that.  This is what happens when I try to do programming in the evening and my mind is mush from a busy day.

So is the idea behind multiple drivers to allow for different types of "snapshots" to be programmed?

[msgreenf]

3 minutes ago, ajd123 said:

Got it.  Don't know how I missed that.  This is what happens when I try to do programming in the evening and my mind is mush from a busy day.

So is the idea behind multiple drivers to allow for different types of "snapshots" to be programmed?

exactly - different snapshot drivers have different configs that take different snapshots

[Cyknight]

snapshot programming can get 'complex' fast if you're not careful (one overwriting the other). Just take care that if you're using numerous of them that you keep tabs on what they all do, when they are triggered etc.

 

I don't do snapshot drivers 'per room' at all (indeed I create a separate room for them that's hidden) - I create a separate snapshot for each 'event' that I want to capture the state of. I find it MUCH easier that way to keep things in order vs having multiple ones per room, and triggering the lot of them.

ie I can have a 'doorbell' snapshot for when the doorbell is pushed to capture TV states, then display the camera on TVs

then have an alarm snapshot that captures the lighting, the TVs and music etc to trigger an announcement and specific light (and then bring it back to before)

The fact that these overlap in what they capture doesn't matter as such. Just remember on the doorbell to program 'if system is in alarm' not to do the snapshot and other programming.

[msgreenf]

He isn't setup per room. He is setup per event 

[Cyknight]

Good - but in OP he specifically sates he has it 'in a couple rooms' so I wanted to point out the pitfall of that approach.