I'm creating a 'good morning' scene that fires upon motion in the morning during a certain time interval but I can't figure out how to only let it fire once without creating a virtual device for that scene and then set the condition to only fire when that device is off. Is there a setting to fire once in a time interval?
Running a scene once during a specified time
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Ryan-Scott
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30 September 2013
I'm creating a 'good morning' scene that fires upon motion in the morning during a certain time interval but I can't figure out how to only let it fire once without creating a virtual device for that scene and then set the condition to only fire when that device is off. Is there a setting to fire once in a time interval?
The easiest way is to use a virtual device... is there a reason you aren't able to do so? You can have the virtual device automatically turn off after a certain period after being on. I suppose you could use an actual device in your scene instead of your virtual device, but it's probably not as fool-proof a solution as a virtual device would be.
Rod
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30 September 2013
This option works and I actually thought of it as I was writing the question. It does seem like a work around for a common scenario.
I noticed in conditions that "device at 0" is not the same as "device = 0".
"Device at 0" doesn't work. When you use the "at" is it asking for English? Ie. "off"?
I'm on 3.10 so maybe that's why but it should mean the same ?
Ryan-Scott
posted this
30 September 2013
This option works and I actually thought of it as I was writing the question. It does seem like a work around for a common scenario.
I noticed in conditions that "device at 0" is not the same as "device = 0".
"Device at 0" doesn't work. When you use the "at" is it asking for English? Ie. "off"?
I'm on 3.10 so maybe that's why but it should mean the same ?
Yes, there's a bug in the older versions. If you upgrade to the latest that scenario will work.
