Scheduler questions (interruptions)

[zg825]

I finished programming all my lights and set up various schedules.  I am trying to add some more nice to have automations added in.

 

Every night at sunset, I have a series of outside lights. Starting a few hours later, various outside lights will turn off depending on where they are at in the house. Two of the lights, the front porch & rear security light turn off at 10:30. Another light 

What I want to happen is:  If the time is after 10:30, and front door contact opens, then Front Porch Lights turn on for 10 minutes then turn off. 

Another thing I want to happen separately is : If the outside music speaker is on then the rear security light should not turn off at the 10:30 scheduler. Once the music is off, then 10 minutes later, the lights should turn off.  

The idea is that if we are outside, we don't the lights to shut off at 10:30 on us. But after 10:30, I would like the lights to turn off after 10 minutes.  I'm not sure if this is the best way, but maybe the program would say something like :

If it is 10:29 and music is on, the rear flood lights are on. Once music turns off, then lights turn off 10 minutes after that.

 

What I also need some direction on is where I should put this code. 

[Kyle Coolabode]

Use conditionals to create these parameters. Will be in programming on the right side. I'd put it on the schedule programming. 

[eggzlot]

54 minutes ago, zg825 said:

I finished programming all my lights and set up various schedules.  I am trying to add some more nice to have automations added in.

 

Every night at sunset, I have a series of outside lights. Starting a few hours later, various outside lights will turn off depending on where they are at in the house. Two of the lights, the front porch & rear security light turn off at 10:30. Another light 

What I want to happen is:  If the time is after 10:30, and front door contact opens, then Front Porch Lights turn on for 10 minutes then turn off. 

Another thing I want to happen separately is : If the outside music speaker is on then the rear security light should not turn off at the 10:30 scheduler. Once the music is off, then 10 minutes later, the lights should turn off.  

The idea is that if we are outside, we don't the lights to shut off at 10:30 on us. But after 10:30, I would like the lights to turn off after 10 minutes.  I'm not sure if this is the best way, but maybe the program would say something like :

If it is 10:29 and music is on, the rear flood lights are on. Once music turns off, then lights turn off 10 minutes after that.

 

What I also need some direction on is where I should put this code. 

for the first one - set up an schedule agent for 10:30pm and say another one for dusk and also create a timer

then you can do

IF After 10:30pm
    IF before dusk
        When Door Contact sensor opens
              Start 10 min front porch light timer

Then under the timer you can say when the 10 minute ends, turn off the lights

For the rear lights, have those on a T/F variable

so the programming is

If the Rear Music is on
   set Rear Music to True

Then at 10:30 that light only goes off if that Rear Music Variable is False, not true

You can then do if Room off is pressed after say 10:30, start another different 10 minute rear light timer, turn on the lights and when the timer runs out turn off the lights.
 

 

[Matt Lowe]

this can be done fairly lightly as well. 

I would just create a couple lines of code. 

for the front door

when the front door opens

       if night time

           turn on the light

when it closes

          start a timer

when timer expires

     if after 1030pm

             turn off light.

 

 

as for the back yard

  schedule event happens at 1030

       if the backyard is off

           turn off the light

when back yard turns off

        if after 1030 pm

                 start timer

 

when timer expires

         if back yard is off

               turn off light

 

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