Vacation Mode

[jasperhb (Jasper Bojsen)]

I want to continuously record a set of light switches and dimmers every day for a week. I want to use the recording to simulate light activity. I.e. if nobody is home on a Monday for example, I want to replay the light activities recorded on Monday the week before.

Is there an easy way to configure OpenHAB to do this?

[Dim (Angelos)]

You could start from here:

Presence Simulation

Ah, that is something else entirely. There is nothing built in to openHAB to let you do that. However, I can think of a few ways to implement it. The first way that comes to mind is to set up persistence so all your state changes are saved to the database. Also, put your Lights into a group (lets call it gLights for this example). Then have a rule that runs on a cron trigger, lets say every five minutes, that only does something if you are away. This rule will loop through all of the members o…

It gives you a pointer on how to start