Triggers

Triggers are entities comparable with messages received from the knx bus.

If the comparison, made through the is_triggered method, returns True than the entity is considered to be triggered.

When the entity is triggered

  1. if it is used by a Scheduler Trigger than its events are notified to Appliances

  2. if it is used by a Performer its events are used to directly update an Appliance

class knx_plugin.trigger.Trigger(description: Any, events: List[home.Event] = None)

A generic KNX trigger triggered when it has some ASAPs in common with the compared Description

classmethod make(addresses: List[knx_stack.address.Address], events: home.Event = None) → knx_plugin.Trigger

Make a protocol message Description given the arguments.

Parameters

  • args –

  • kwargs –

Returns

a protocol message Description

classmethod make_from_yaml(addresses: List[int], events: home.Event = None) → knx_plugin.Trigger

Make a protocol message Description given the yaml arguments.

Parameters

  • args –

  • kwargs –

Returns

a protocol message Description

is_triggered(another_description: knx_plugin.message.Description) → bool

This trigger is triggered by the given protocol message Description?

Parameters

another_description – a protocol message description

Returns

bool