Rules issue / debug option?

[joergsx]

Hi there,
I just can’t get the following rule to work. I would like to infer the status of my washing machine based on its power consumption. The washing machine has a power draw of 0W when turned off. In standby/finished mode, it draws 2W, and when in operation, the power is greater than 2W. When the power drops below 3W, the "standby" status should be published after a delay. There's some problem in the attached code that I can’t quite solve. Is there any way to debug this? I would be grateful for a small hint. I have already gone through the documentation with examples several times and tried various things.

Var1 0
Rule1
ON ENERGY#Power>5 DO Backlog IF (%var1%!=1) var1 1; publish %topic%/wstatus läuft; ruletimer1 0 ENDIF BREAK
ON ENERGY#Power>1 DO Backlog IF (%var1%!=2) ruletimer1 60 ENDIF BREAK
ON ENERGY#Power<=1 DO Backlog IF (%var1%!=3) var1 3; publish %topic%/wstatus aus; ruletimer1 0 ENDIF BREAK
ON Rules#Timer=1 DO Backlog IF (%var1%!=2) var1 2; publish %topic%/wstatus fertig ENDIF endon
Rule1 1

As a result, I get the error message quite frequently, which is also transmitted via mqtt. How can I switch off error transmission via mqtt to save load?

20:49:33.539 RUL: ENERGY#POWER>1 performs "Backlog IF (0!=2) ruletimer1 60 ENDIF"
20:49:33.572 MQT: stat/basement/washing machine/COMMAND = {"Command":"Unknown"}
20:49:34.140 RUL: ENERGY#POWER>1 performs "Backlog IF (0!=2) ruletimer1 60 ENDIF"
20:49:34.174 MQT: stat/basement/washing machine/COMMAND = {"Command":"Unknown"}
20:49:34.741 RUL: ENERGY#POWER>1 performs "Backlog IF (0!=2) ruletimer1 60 ENDIF"
20:49:34.776 MQT: stat/basement/washing machine/COMMAND = {"Command":"Unknown"}

Does anybody know my mistake or has any better solution for that issue?

Regards, thanky you

[barbudor]

I would bet you are not using a build supporting the If statement which is not included in default tasmota for esp8266

[sfromis]

For recent versions of Tasmota if/endif is included in the default builds, also for ESP8266, but I suppose that barbudor is right about you using an older version. I'd suggest to upgrade.

You could also verify with Weblog 3, after which the debug messages will indicate what command is unknown, but it is highly likely that it is indeed the if.

[joergsx]

Thank you for that. You are right! I have the Program Version | 13.0.0(tasmota) Build Date & Time 2023-08-16T10:19:59 Core/SDK Version 2_7_4_9/2.2.2-dev(38a443e) that was delivered with my NOUS A1T Smart Socket.
Weblog 3 brings

22:02:10.832 MQT: stat/keller/waschmaschine/COMMAND = {"Command":"Unknown"}
22:02:11.398 RUL: ENERGY#POWER>1 performs "Backlog IF (0!=2) ruletimer1 60 ENDIF"
22:02:11.399 SRC: Rule
22:02:11.402 CMD: Grp 0, Cmd 'BACKLOG', Idx 1, Len 29, Pld -99, Data 'IF (0!=2) ruletimer1 60 ENDIF'
22:02:11.425 SRC: Backlog
22:02:11.428 CMD: Grp 0, Cmd 'IF', Idx 1, Len 26, Pld -99, Data '(0!=2) ruletimer1 60 ENDIF'
22:02:11.438 MQT: stat/keller/waschmaschine/COMMAND = {"Command":"Unknown"}