Switch/Group changed Rule not working as expected

[rossko57]

Have you installed the expire binding?

Does item ever go ON? Inspect events.log
Does your rule send it an OFF before it expires? Inspect events.log
Does your rule send it another ON before it expires? This you won’t see in events.log, because updates-to-same are not logged.
But it’s easy to make a diagnostic rule to trigger and report updates.

Please don’t use while-sleep in a finished rule, it is horribly bad practice.

Here is a sleep free countdown technique.

Design Pattern : Expire Binding based Countdown timer

Problem Statement Sometimes you need to run a timer, but want to able to inspect the remaining time. This is not directly possible with either createTimer() or the Expire binding. Example - I have lighting-on timers that run for different duration depending on the trigger source or time of day. It is useful to have the timer behave “intelligently” - do not apply a new 5-minute request where there is still seven minutes of a previous trigger to run. But do apply it if there is only two minu…