Help with rule: accidentally turned off toilet on my wife

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I donā€™t have any scheduled reboots but I would imagine it would/should just recover based on internal scheduling for the rule.

Just went to check and the bidet/plug is still on. Itā€™s roughly 3 am. I should set logging for the plug too.

Update: see below.

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It is 1:25am as I am reading this and I am groggy so I may be missing something, but I believe you have the on and off reversed as your original statement said you do not plan on using the toilet between 12 am - 6am.

However the rule you created is turning the toilet power on at 12am and off at 6am.

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Ugh. Youā€™re totally correct. Iā€™ve swapped it and am trying to run this rule starting at 4 am now. Canā€™t guarantee I had it right or wrong the first time.

Btw, I just recreated the rule. On the iPad at least, when you first choose the trigger and certain time, if you select AM for the first time it auto reverts back to PM after saving. Seems like a bug to me although it can somehow be iOS specific.

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Are you using safari on the iPad? I would recommend doing it with Chrome and see if the behavior is correct.

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The rule is still not working and I donā€™t see anything in the logs.

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Ran a quick test. With the rule below, at 7:49 am the bidet/plug stayed on. 5 minutes later, it turned off and stayed off. I would have expected this to work.

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[app:451]2019-12-30 07:54:01.058 am [info]Delay Over: Off: Iris Plug Bidet --> delayed: 0:05:00
[app:451]2019-12-30 07:49:00.623 am [info]Action: On: Iris Plug Bidet
[app:451]2019-12-30 07:49:00.589 am [info]Action: Off: Iris Plug Bidet --> delayed: 0:05:00
[app:451]2019-12-30 07:49:00.464 am [info]Bidet timer Triggered
[app:451]2019-12-30 07:49:00.445 am [info]Bidet timer: Triggered at Certain Time

Think I probably need the delay after the ā€œonā€ instead?

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Solved. Had the delay backwards. It shouldā€™ve been associated with the ā€œon.ā€
@bravenel I wish that RM read slightly differently as I find this order can be very confusing.
For example this to me (as a new user) makes more sense as it adds a wait (or delay if preferred) as a separate middle action to run:

Select trigger events
When time is 12:00 AM EST

Select actions to run
Off: Iris Plug Bidet
Wait: 6:00 AM EST
On: Iris Plug Bidet

Wait makes more sense than delay, and being able to specify an exact time would be handy.
Also, what the heck does that ā€˜cancelableā€ switch do when it appears next to delays???