Easy and fast way to make many similar Rooms in Visualization. Copy of rooms

[DarthPaul]

Thanks to Daniel i, I managed to create this script to Copy Rooms in Visualization, and automatically reorganize the Groupaddresses in the new rooms. This is greatly redusing the timeconsumtion in setup.

Step 1 
is to organize the groupaddress structure. For the example under, we have to use the following structure,
MainGroup = Action --> Like 6 is Temperature, 2 is Light on/Off etc..
MiddleGroup = Floor
SubGroup  = Room
This give us 6/2/3 is Temperature in room 3 in the 2 floor.
and 2/2/3 is light on/off in the same room
4/2/3 is heat-drive, same room

Step 2
Make the Visualization for the first room. 
Use the proper Group-addresses and organize it the way all rooms need to look.
Use this as a default. 
In Vis. Structure, make several copies of this room. 
IMPORTANT Name the Copy: Copy (MiddleGroup)(Subgroup) 
We then have the following rooms in Vis Structure:
Copy 201
Copy 202
Room 203
Copy 204
Copy 213
Copy 240
Copy 201

Step 3
Run the script under from resident. (Note: script will auto-disable itself at the end, since this only need to run once.)
Script will change all objects in all Rooms named: "Copy*" to be linked to the corresponding Middle and subgroup, leaving Main-group unchanged.
This will change hundreds of group-addresses in seconds.

Step 4
After Script, in Vis. Structure, change name to wanted name, and add PIN codes etc. as needed. In Visualization edit all Labels, and texts as wanted (like heading for room-name) 

Script to be inserted in resident:

Code:

--This script will automatically replace middle group and group in KNX addres based on room number.
--For example if room name is Copy 315 then all object on this plan will have addressing X/3/15---
--Script will replace only roome which name will start from 'roomSearch' parameter. This can be modified as many times as it is needed.
--Be carefull, wrongly used can destroy whole project. Always make buckup before running the script
--Script will disable itself after it is finished.

roomSearch = 'Copy' -- set constant name which will be starting plan name.


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-------------------------------DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE-------------------------------------

roomSearch = roomSearch..'%'

dbfloors = db:getall('SELECT id, name FROM visfloors WHERE name LIKE '..'"'..roomSearch..'"'..' ')

for _, floorsData in ipairs(dbfloors) do
 floorID  = floorsData.id
 roomName = floorsData.name
 roomNumber = string.match(roomName, "%d+")
 middleGroup = tonumber(string.sub(roomNumber, 1,1))
 group = tonumber(string.sub(roomNumber, 2, 3))
 
 dbobjects = db:getall('SELECT id, type, object, statusobject FROM visobjects WHERE floor = ' .. floorID .. ' AND type < "2"  ')
 
 for _, objectData in ipairs(dbobjects) do
   
   mainGroupControl = bit.rshift(objectData.object, 11)
   mainGroupStatus = bit.rshift(objectData.statusobject, 11)
   
 oldControlAddress = objectData.object
 oldStatusAddress = objectData.statusobject
 currentRow = objectData.id
 newControlAddress = ((mainGroupControl * 2048) + (middleGroup * 256) + group)
 newStatusAddress = ((mainGroupStatus * 2048) + (middleGroup * 256) + group)
 
--  log('oldControlAddress= '..tostring(oldControlAddress)..', currentRow= '..tostring(currentRow)..', newControlAddress= ' ..tostring(newControlAddress)..', newStatusAddress= ' ..tostring(newStatusAddress) )
 db:update('visobjects', { object = newControlAddress }, { id = currentRow })
 if (oldControlAddress == oldStatusAddress) then --if no status object selected main object must be used
 db:update('visobjects', { statusobject = newControlAddress }, { id = currentRow })
    else
 db:update('visobjects', { statusobject = newStatusAddress }, { id = currentRow })
    end
   
 end  
 
 
end  

log('update finished')
script.disable(_SCRIPTNAME)

PS: 
This script is only for Subgroup 0-99 (room X00 to X99)
If 0-255 is needed, change room-names to Copy X001 to X255
And change in script: 
group = tonumber(string.sub(roomNumber, 2, 3)) 
into:
group = tonumber(string.sub(roomNumber, 2, 4))

PPS:
Allthoug I myself have had a lot off fault free success with this:
This scrips is messing with the database in LM, (as always) make sure to Backup before you test it, just in case we screw it up





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