CoRE - Get peer assistance here with setting up Pistons

[bamarayne (Jason "The Enabler" as deemed so by @Smart)]

@blackprint24

Quick question on setup and performance. Do I create one piston to control the lighting for my entire house or is it better to create many different piston for each room?

Back in the early days of CoRE I set out on a project… It was called the ultimate piston… It turned out to be the ultimate failure.

The ULTIMATE Piston

Continued and reposted from other thread… The ULTIMATE Piston Well, I didn’t several hours last night working on this thing and came to the conclusion this morning at 0230 that it was a mistake. I discovered several flaws. Not problems with CoRE, but problems with reality. First of all, I was designing it to be as streamlined as possible… That in itself caused a major problem. I initiated 4 separate pistons into it. I started with my most complex pistons. Modes, routines, and two master bath pistons. (My master bath requires three pistons due to the complex interactions and restrictions of the actions) Problems: Modes - have a single trigger at 0600 was fine. I then had a long list of actions that included wait times until the next mode time change. The problem was that if I pause…

I have it a valiant attempt…But I was not worthy…

But seriously, I highly recommend you keep your pistons simple, and as non complex as possible. Go for a categorized type of set up. Do each room individually. Keep your pistons independent of other pistons and automatons when possible. There will be times that you can’t, but try to avoid it.

I found the most success with this approach over large complex pistons.

Also, rebuild your pistons to find better ways of doing things.