Hi there all, I want to make a rule for my son in order to let him to play with the Play Station for 2 hours. I allready have the SonOff POW working and give me the watt number when power on whit this string in sitemap: Text item=SonOff1Power label=“Power [%.1f Watt]” icon=“switch” I must make e…

I cannot give you the solution but similar requests have been made and answered repeatedly under the keyword ‘counter’, e.g., here: Generator hours counter - #33 by rlkoshak Maybe you can glean enough from this (and other posts regarding counters) to help you in your rule.

[image] lipp_markus: lean enough from this (a Thanks a lot I’ll give it a look :slight_smile: Denis

Just my opinion … I would not severely shut down a working computer. IMHO solution you need to look for software on the computer itself.

Wel …if I tell him to finish to play on Play Station, then he tell me that just stay in order to save the game …and after I forget, he remain for another hour or much more. With this project will bi controlled and the Play Station will be turned off. I don’t think that the PS will broke if I take…

To measure the time, the PS is powered on, you would: create the rules as mentioned above make a second rule every night at midnight, which resets the Counter you should read the guide for rules http://docs.openhab.org/configuration/rules-dsl.html Rules are either “item”-triggered, meaning some…

Thanks a lot Thomas, I think I’ll make all of rule as cron based. Something like: -every 1 min check the SonOffPow if > 10 Watts add 1min to a variable -when variable > 120 Watt > send power OFF to SonOff Then another rule: -every 6:00 AM 1 send power ON to SonOff and set variable at 0 min. …

You should add another rule: -every 1 min check the SonOffPow if Sonoff is not online add 2min to a variable That might be a way to teach him not to try to trick your setup… of course you will need another way of forcing the shutdown then. Btw. Honestly I think your son will quickly find anothe…

[image] ThomDietrich: -every 1 min check the SonOffPow if Sonoff is not online add 2min to a variable I think is not so good this rule… or maybe I’m not understanding it cause my english :slight_smile: This because if he play for just 40 min and after he make a pause, the counter must rema…

“online” means in Wifi and operational. In the position of your son, the first thing I’d do is remove the Sonoff somehow :smile: - but of course if he get’s this far nothing is stopping him from having it still connected but not to the PS. Maybe enhance the rule to be “not online OR online but 0.0 w…

Yes … great idea Thanks a lot :slight_smile:

SonOff POW > Play Station > 120 mins

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binderth (Thomas Binder) October 22, 2017, 9:03am 14

There’s a full-fledged thread here for using the Tasmota-Firmware:

…and regarding the Sonoff PoW, you don’t Need soldering, you can use some Pogo Pins (you know, the cables with the Spikes on the top), just put them in the regarding holes on the platine, works perfectly.