Every 2 days

[toy4rick]

Hey gang,

I need to give my cat medication every 2 days around 6PM

Is the best way to setup a RM4 where the trigger is Periodic Schedule? Still trying to figure out how to start the trigger other than remove the pause on a medication day and let it run.

Am I under-thinking it?

Rick

[bravenel]

Unfortunately, that's not going to work the way you want. Periodic uses Cron, and Cron is peculiar. That will give you every other day within a month, but not alternating days. So for this month it would give you 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, and then August 1, 3, etc.

[ogiewon]

Seems to me you could use a Private Boolean within the Rule that gets toggled every day at 6pm. Only if it is true, speak the Notification. The days it is false there would be no notification.

[SmartHomePrimer]

If you don't mind using the cloud, Use IFTTT and have it trigger when an event starts in Google Calendar, then flip a switch on for 1 second in HE to give the notification on your Echo.

Then just put the event for every other day at 6PM in your google calendar linked to the IFTTT account.

[Ryan780]

You can do this with PB and a trigger every day at 6pm.

Trigger: Certain time at 6pm

Action:
IF PB True then broadcast reminder and set PB to False
Else if PB is False, set PB to true.
End-If

This will trigger every 48 hours.

[toy4rick]

Thanks for the feedback

It's all setup, now to test and forget

Rick