I’m trying to makemyself some irrigation logicˇin OH 2.4 … i need to run my water pump every second day for sequence “run → wait 5 min → run → wait 5 min → run”. It’s because land is not soaking up water quickly enough. I have item: Switch greenhouse_Button "Pump" { mqtt=">[mqtt:greenhouse/POWER:c…

Alternatively, you could just set up three cron triggers at five-minute intervals. Time cron "0 0 23 ? * */2 *" or Time cron "0 5 23 ? * */2 *" or Time cron "0 10 23 ? * */2 *" Personally, I prefer to use createTimers in rules instead of expire bindings (turn the switch on, set a timer for 30 seco…

I’ll have to agree with timers but i can’t figure it out how to do it. Expire binding is temporary solution at the moment for manual run’s but i’d have to agree timers would be better. I was thinking about multiple cron run’s but it would get messy quite quickly. Do i have to use patterns to make…

The Actions documentation says to create a timer using this syntax: var Timer myTimer = createTimer(now.plusSeconds(30), [ | logInfo("rules", "Timer activated") ]) I’ve seen other examples that don’t use variables. I think the only difference is that using a variable enables you to use the…

[image] martinlindjarv: Can somebody point me in right direction? [image] Design Pattern: Looping Timers Tutorials & Examples Edit: Update for OH 4 Please see Design Pattern: What is a Design Pattern and How Do I Use Them to understand the scope and pur…

Hah. I should have realized you’d have a design pattern for this, Rich. Now I need to find a reason to implement a looping timer. Out of curiousity, do you typically use expire bindings or timers? I just read your design pattern for expire binding timers , and it seems to me that the timer drawbacks…

I use Expire binding timers except when I don’t know a priori how long I need to sleep for, or if it’s a “fire and forget” type timer that I don’t have to worry about canceling later. I’d rather not have to write the code to keep up with the timers if I don’t have to so the vast majority of the time…

Is there a possibility that someone can help making a loop. With copy and paste it’s doable but would like to make it more generic… (command repetation in rule) sendCommand(Valve, ON) createTimer(now.plusMinutes(1)) [| sendCommand(Valve, OFF) createTimer(now.plusMinutes(1)) [| sendCommand(V…

See Design Pattern: Looping Timers which should get you started and provide the explanations for the following: var maxLoops = 10 var Timer myTimer = null myTimer = createTimer(now.plusSeconds(0), [ | Valve.sendCommand(if(Valve.state != ON) OFF else ON) maxLoops = maxLoops - 1 if(maxLoo…

Excellent, thank you. I was reading Design patterns but didn’t get it … too hard for my brain :frowning: Now i’ll have to test if it’s working like it should :slight_smile:

Repeat some actions (and waiting) in rule

Setup, Configuration and Use Scripts & Rules

rlkoshak (Rich Koshak) May 28, 2019, 7:36pm 5