@tlc you could use a state machine to walk through the delays. For example, see Washing Machine State Machine. Instead of relying on conditions to go from one state to the next, you could have timers. Then detect the state transitions in another rule and send the appropriate command on each transition. In the end I don’t know that it will be much better than what you have, but it would avoid the sleeps. I’m sure there are other better ways that someone will suggest.
