Effective use of Timers in Rules

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

@Ion3

I thought that previousState would not be a good idea, as I wanted the lamp to blink acc. to your “Alam Lights” example. Because of toggling every second ON/OFF the previousState is very uncertain.

That does make it more complicated. You could use historicState(now.minusMinutes(X)) where X is how long ago the lights started blinking. But once you do that you really are not gaining much by using Persistence.

@Ion3

To re-use code, do you think it would be a good idea to use your option 1 to call the Alarm_MasterEvent like this:

If I understand correctly, I actually wrote that up as a Design Pattern (Separation of Behaviors).