[SOLVED] Help with a light timer rule

[lipp_markus]

Great…if you are interested in simplifying your rules (avoiding all the repetitive if clauses for example), this may help

Design Pattern: How to Structure a Rule

If you are unfamiliar with Design Patterns, please see Design Pattern: What is a Design Pattern and How Do I Use Them. Problem Statement Rules developers will frequently encounter situations where they have to perform only slightly different tasks depending on the states of two or more Items or variables. The most obvious approach is to have a series of nested if/else statements or switch statements and repeat the same code over and over with the slight variations in each section. This approac…

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Design Pattern: Encoding and Accessing Values in Rules

Edit: Added link to item_init library. Please see Design Pattern: What is a Design Pattern and How Do I Use Them for how to read and use a DP. Problem Statement Often a user has the desire to be able to store and retrieve a series of constants or other values in a Rule. For example, a user may have an RFID reader and want to store the list of authorized and disallowed IDs in a flexible manner. As another example, one may be sending commands to a gateway and need to include the ID of the target…