Rules on startup - How to prevent running if things not yet reported the correct state?

[Larsen (Locke)]

@FranzS

it’s there a good pattern to do so?

very close to your use case there is a marketplace rule in the add-on store. It’s that one:

Delay Start [4.0.0.0;5.9.9.9]

[delay-icon-15.jpeg] System startup can be noisy and chaotic. This is a rule that triggers at system runlevel 40 (Rule Engine Started) and again at a runlevel 100. The first time it triggers, it disables a user selected set of rules immediately. The second time it triggers it will wait a user selected amount of time and then reenable the selected rules. This rule tempalte requires the openhab_rules_tools library to be installed. See openHAB Rules Tools Announcements for details. You can inst…