Easy Away Switch / Ruleengine

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

Examples of how to trigger rules based on sunset and/or set times of day:

[Deprecated] Design Pattern: Time Of Day

[Edit] Adde link to Time of Day State Machine For years now I’ve let this Design Pattern post get out of hand so I’m going to rein it in a bit now. It’s really expanded away from what it’s originally intended to be (i.e. a way to illustrate how to code a time based state machine) into a thread that is mostly about the example, Time of Day. It’s partially my fault for naming the thread “Time of Day”. But there are better alternatives for Time of Day in specific and time based state machines in g…

Example of how to generically track presence:

Generic Presence Detection

Edit: A rewrite to take advantage of the Debounce rule template on the marketplace. This is a tutorial to show a generic and sensor independent way to do presence detection with multiple sensors and implementing anti-flapping (i.e. all sensors must be OFF for a certain amount of time before the home goes to away). Requirements One or more Switches determines whether someone is present. If one or more of these Switches is ON then someone is presumed to be present (more complex algorithms are …

You will have to decide what sorts of sensors to use to detect presence. The Network Binding tends to be a common first choice for most users.