Only allow switch to be pressed every 30 seconds?

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

First of all, from a safety perspective this sounds like a bad idea. There can be some scenarios where being able to “cancel” your previous button press would be important from a safety perspective.

This sounds like a job for Proxy Items:

Automation/Orchestration Design Patterns

As a guy who’s written code for a living for 35+ years, I appreciate the “mother of all rules” post on the wiki and the discussions here which use groups for reduce lines of code. But I’ve not seen too much on doing systematic coordination/orchestration of automation events and design patterns of logic for same. So, I offer the following. This starts with my particular use case involving a Light in my kitchen. There’s a switch in the room to control the light, as well as a motion sensor whi…

Create a Proxy Switch which is what you send commands to and put on your sitemap. However, this Item is not bound to anything. Sending commands to this switch triggers a rule.

The rule will check to see if at least 30 seconds have passed since the last time it was sent a command and if so it will send the command to the “real” Switch which is connected to the opener.

import org.joda.time.*

val DateTime lastPressed = null

rule "garage proxy"
when
    Item GarageProxy received command
then
    // If you have persistence
    if(GarageProxy.lastUpdate.after(now.minusSeconds(30).toDate)) Garage.sendCommand(ON)

    // If not you need the import and val above
    if(lastPressed.isAfter(now.minusSeconds(30)){
        lastPressed = now
        Garage.sendCommand(ON)
    }
end