First Scene with timer and wall outlet

[Gman34798 1]

Any idea why this simple scene will not trigger?  Should switch an outlet on for 2.5 hours every day at 10pm.  This is m y first scene, and it seems simple enough, but am I missing something?  I can trigger the outlet manually from within the app and it works fine so I know it's connected and functioning properly outside the scene.

Thanks all!

 

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Edited July 28, 2017 by T.Konopka
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[Captain Chaos 0]

 

Yes I think I see the problem here

 

Remove the 9000 and enter 0, this will then just turn on the Wall Outlet

 

To get it to turn off add the following:-

 

And

 

Wall Outlet = Turn off 9000 s

 

 

That said if I was doing this for myself I would do it another way:-

 

I would add my days of week and the exact time (as you have done)

 

Then

 

Wall Outlet = Turn on 0 s

 

And save the scene, this has now created a schedule to turn on the wall out let at 10pm every day

 

I would then create another scene (copy scene) exactly as above but select turn off (obviously change your exact time to when you want it turning off)

 

 

I think this looks better and you can change the time without trying to figure out the seconds lol.

 

Hope that helps you!

Edited July 27, 2017 by Captain Chaos

[kunoch 27]

As @Captain Chaosalready mentions, the time there is the delay. for the action. So in your example it would mean switch the wall outlet on after 9000s.

you can for sure create such a scene:

IF time of the day == 10PM

THEN Switch ON wall_outlet with a delay 0s

AND Switch OFF wall_outlet with delay 9000s

that should do the job.

 

Be careful! I would recommend to use such delays only if it is a few minutes (below 10). Reason: if the HCL crashes or you play around and have to restart while the delay is running, the delay will not be continued or restarted after the HCL is up and running again. So the delayed off would only trigger the next day.

I would create two scenes, one for ON and one for OFF.

I also noticed (I might be wrong) such scenes tend to lead to an increased probability to make the HCL crash (at least in my situation I came down from several a day to now maximum 2 per day, wchi is still 3 too many )

 

When trying something like this: try first with short delays, so you can follow the reaction of the system easily. Keep in mind when pressing the 'play' button of a scene, the IF condition is disregarded, or set the time in the IF condition to a few minutes into the future.

Edited July 27, 2017 by kunoch

[Gman34798 1]

@Captain Chaos & @kunoch,  

Thanks for the replies and answer to my issue, didn't realize that was a delay timer!  I'll rewrite into 2 scenes as you advised and I'm sure all should function properly.