Staircase timer vs normal operation

[Dirk79]

Hello, I am using the staircase timer, created by Erwin van der Zwart. Works very good for several PIRs.

Now I have decided that I want to create a staircase timer on the light which is normally on when it is dark outside and this light has to stay on (in a room next to the living room). But sometimes in the morning (when it is still dark outside), we have not put on the lights in de living room. Only in that case (so when the lights are not switched on) I want to use the staircase timer to automatically turn the lights on and off.
When the lights are switched on by the staircase timer, the light button (or the start of a scene) must overrule the staircase logic.

I have tried several things, but i can't realise this. The staircase logic overrules the current state and switches off the lights after the delay.

So what I want: (1) When light is already turned on, staircase logic must not work. And (2) in case the staircase logic turned on the light and is counting down, and during this countdown somebody switches the light on by a button or a scene, the staircase logic must also stop working.

How can I solve my problem?

Thank you very much.

Code:

-- ** Staircase logic with external time object and retriggering on input object Version 3.1 ** -- -- ****************************** Created by Erwin van der Zwart **************************** -- -- ************************************** SET PARAMETERS ************************************ -- -- Set input address AddressInput = '9/0/7' -- Set output address AddressOutput = '0/0/41' -- Set unique name for staircase timer (to avoid same storage name usage) StaircaseName = 'PIR_TR2_1' -- Set external time address (optional) AddressExternalTime = '' -- Use time left indication UseTimeLeft = false -- Set to true if time left indication will be used -- Set feedback adress of time left indication (optional) AddressTimeLeft = '' -- Set time delay (Used when external time is not available) SetDelay = 120 -- Seconds or Minutes SetSec = true-- Set to false for Minutes -- Set factor delay (Multiplies Delay) SetFac = 1 -- Logic can be turned of by value 0 Off_by_Value_Zero = false -- ************************************** END PARAMETERS ************************************ -- -- *************************** DON'T CHANGE ANYTHING UNDER THIS LINE ************************ -- inputvalue = event.getvalue if Off_by_Value_Zero == false and (event.getvalue() == false or event.getvalue() == 0) then   -- Exit script   return end ValueInput = grp.getvalue(AddressInput) ValueOutput = grp.getvalue(AddressOutput) ValueExternalTime = grp.getvalue(AddressExternalTime) if SetSec == true then   SetSeconds = 1 else   SetSeconds = 60 end if ValueExternalTime == nil then ValueExternalTime = 0 end if ValueExternalTime > 0 then   StairCaseTime = ValueExternalTime * SetSeconds * SetFac else   StairCaseTime = SetDelay * SetSeconds * SetFac end if ValueInput == true then   --check for earlier started scrips   --check storage for stpid value   stpid = storage.get(StaircaseName)    --check if stpid has a value   if stpid == nil then     pid = os.getpid()     storage.set(StaircaseName, pid)   else     -- kill earlier running script        os.kill(stpid, signal.SIGKILL)     -- create new pid for next time to kill     pid = os.getpid()      storage.set(StaircaseName, pid)   end   if ValueOutput == false then     grp.write(AddressOutput, true)     ValueOutput = true   end   -- Check time left indication is used   if UseTimeLeft == true then     if StairCaseTime > 0 then         grp.update(AddressTimeLeft, StairCaseTime)         repeat           StairCaseTime = StairCaseTime - 1           grp.update(AddressTimeLeft, StairCaseTime)           os.sleep(1)         until StairCaseTime == 0     end      else     os.sleep(StairCaseTime)   end   ValueOutput = grp.getvalue(AddressOutput)   if ValueOutput == true then     ValueInput = grp.getvalue(AddressInput)     if ValueInput == true then         grp.write(AddressInput, false)       ValueInput = false     end     if Off_by_Value_Zero == false then       if ValueOutput == true then             grp.write(AddressOutput, false)         ValueOutput = false           end     else       -- Do nothing, this will trigger else condition below on next run     end   end  else   --check for earlier started scrips   --check storage for stpid value   stpid = storage.get(StaircaseName)    --check if stpid has a value   if stpid == nil then   else     -- kill earlier running script        os.kill(stpid, signal.SIGKILL)     grp.update(AddressTimeLeft, 0)     pid = nil     storage.set(StaircaseName, pid)   end   if ValueOutput == true then     grp.write(AddressOutput, false)   end end