[SOLVED] (create)Timer Loop Problem in a rule

[rossko57]

It is fine using timers in rules, but of course you need to manage them with thought.

This may be helpful. Remember your variable ‘timer’ is just a handle.

Hue Motion Sensor Rule - Timer Problems

It is perhaps worth a little explaining here. This line creates a timer and stores a handle, a reference to the timer, in the variable motion_timer_floor. That’s all. There are non-obvious consequences to that. If you run the line again, say two minutes later, it still does the same thing. So the original 3-minute timer is still running in the background, and will go off and do whatever it was told. But you’ve lost the handle to that timer, because you have overwritten your motion_timer_f…

Personally, I would change the variable name from ‘timer’ to something more helpful like ‘modetimer’ before you write some other rule with timers and get mixed up.