Help creating rule - timers within timers possible?

Setup, Configuration and Use Scripts & Rules
#1

Ok, So I’m new to this. I’ve created about a dozen rules and they all work great (in my eyes). I have lot of people in the forum to thank for this and its amazing how much you can learn from other peoples issues.

I’m trying to get my last rule sorted out for an alarm I’m trying to put together.

Here is what I want it to do and what I tried to make work. Like I said I’m new to this so I have probably made loads of school boy errors

When front door is open check alarm is on
If alarm is on then play a sound and start a timer
When timer finishes check if alarm is still on
If alarm is still on then trigger the siren and send a pushover message
run siren for 10 minutes and then turn off

So it all works (kind of) it just doesn’t do any of the waiting and triggers the notification and siren straight away.

rule "Alarm Away trigger Conditions - Front Door"
when
    Item front_door_sensor changed to ON
then
    if (burgler_alarm_away.state == ON) {
        playSound("webaudio","alarmtone.mp3")
        createTimer(now.plusSeconds(10), [ |
                (burgler_alarm_away.state == ON)
                house_siren.sendCommand (ON)
                sendBroadcastNotification("Alarm has been triggered") 
                sendPushoverMessage(pushoverBuilder("House Alarm has been triggered").withEmergencyPriority())
                createTimer(now.plusMinutes(10), [ |
                house_siren.sendCommand (OFF)
          ])     
         ])

     }


     
end
#2

You seem to have missed out an if() and the curly braces to contain what is meant to execute.

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#3

I knew it would be something simple, I can’t believe I over looked that. Thank you so much. It appears to be working, I’ll do some more testing and make sure its 100% bullet proof.

Here is the new rule which someone might find useful in the future

rule "Alarm Away trigger Conditions - Front Door"
when
    Item front_door_sensor changed to ON
then
    if (burgler_alarm_away.state == ON) {
        playSound("webaudio","alarmtone.mp3")
        createTimer(now.plusSeconds(10), [ |
        if      (burgler_alarm_away.state == ON){
                house_siren.sendCommand (ON)
                sendBroadcastNotification("Alarm has been triggered") 
                sendPushoverMessage(pushoverBuilder("House Alarm has been triggered").withEmergencyPriority())
                createTimer(now.plusMinutes(10), [ |
                house_siren.sendCommand (OFF) 
                ])  
                }   
         ])
     }
end
#4

Please tick the solution once you have verified it is working. Thanks