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Design Pattern: Looping Timers

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 purpose of this and other Design Patterns. Problem Statement Often one may require a loop in a Rule, to wait for some event to occur or some state to change before doing something. For example, if a door is opened for a long time to send an alert every hour until the door is closed. Concept [image] Use a Timer that reschedules itself instead of a while loop or sleeps. …