Rule with Timer for electric windows

[rossko57]

@Saarlaender

Ive also installed the experimental rule engine

This experimental feature has absolutely nothing to with “conventional” rules as found in xxx.rules files. Slow down, randomly doing things isn’t going to help at all.

@Saarlaender

I dont see anything about rules in paperui under configuration

Nope. PaperUI has absolutely no idea of anything to do with xxx.rules files.

@Saarlaender

In Events ive found this … myWindow changed from NULL to OPEN

“Who did that then” I wonder, it wasn’t spontaneous. Anyway, state should then persist until you boot, or reload any Items file.

Okay, so the nub of this cron trigger not working

My first Rule - light on and off every 10 seconds (can't make most basic rule work)

I agree with Vincent. Your cron expression doesn’t do what you think it does. “0/10 0 0 ? * * *” means every ten seconds starting at second 0 on minute 00 on hour 00 any day, month, or year. So the cron expression as written will only execute six times between 00:00 and 00:01. I highly recommend using a cron expression builder if you are not familiar with the syntax. I think you are missing the correct interpretation of the starting at. Starting at only applies when you have a / (e.g. 0/10 …