OH3 using thread sleep

[Calvin_Chin]

Hi All,
I’m trying to do looping on alarm sound and read lots of topic and mostly recommend thread sleep. I tried to see when I can put the thread sleep command but nowhere to be found. Is it in the rule? I saw most topic have if, then command but when I check the rules code it is not the same command line ( if then rules). Can I know where I can be put the thread sleep command in rules

[Sascha_Billian]

That command needs to be executed in a script. So in the “Then” section of your rule you need to add “Execute Script”. But i’m not sure if a thread sleed would be good here. Try using timers instead

[Calvin_Chin]

Thanks. Any idea how I use timer? For example when a sensor trigger alarm it keep ringing until I off… Do I do timer in rules? Which section?

[irulewellswood (Martin Delap)]

All my rules were built in openhab 2.5 and I migrated them across to OH3 as rules files (rather than using MainUI). I define the timer at the very top of the rules file, along with any other parameters:

// Parameters
        val filename = "commands.rules"
        val intInterval = 5000
        val intShortInterval = 2000
        val intIntervalSec = 5
        val intShortIntervalSec = 3
        // Create variable for timer for each room with a delay switch
        var Timer tLounge = null

And then set up the timer when I need to in the relevant section of the rule. Like this:

postUpdate(Message, 'Setting Lounge to Tuner...')
postUpdate(Lounge, 'Tuner')
postUpdate(ST_Lounge_Source,'TUNER')
postUpdate(ST_Lounge_Panel,'Radio')
postUpdate(ST_Lounge_Panel_Tab,'Radio1')
postUpdate(ST_Lounge_Panel_Device,'RADIO')
postUpdate(ST_Lounge_Volume_Device,'BOSE')
postUpdate(ST_Lounge_TV_Device,'LTV')
tLounge?.cancel
iLounge = 0
tLounge = createTimer(now.plusSeconds(intShortIntervalSec), [
	iLounge =iLounge + 1
	switch iLounge {
		case 1: {
			ST_BOSE_Power.sendCommand(ON)
			tLounge.reschedule(now.plusSeconds(intShortIntervalSec))
		}
		case 2: {
			sendCommand('BOSE','BOSE_AUX')
			tLounge.reschedule(now.plusSeconds(intShortIntervalSec))
		}
		case 3: {
			ST_LTV_Power.sendCommand(OFF)
			tLounge.reschedule(now.plusSeconds(intShortIntervalSec))
		}
		default: {
			tLounge = null
			postUpdate(Message, '-')
		}

So the above sends 3 commands with a time delay of 3 seconds(intShortIntervalSec) between each command.

Hope that helps…