Help with Rule and variable trigger and timers

greg.cole · January 27, 2020, 5:40pm

Been scratching my head how to best capture this rule. Thought the "collective" probably has an example to point me in the right direction!!

I have rule with a morning scene that is set to come on at 6AM every morning and run for 3.5 hours. If I don't have an alarm then the world is great.

I have a second rule that runs the same morning scene if the Alarm goes off (IFTTT Alexa trigger).

My issue is the scene turns off at 9:30am regardless of when the the second rule completes 3.5 hours.

I fully understand why. I don't believe a timer can be cancelled, because that would be the easy fix.

Any suggestions? I ultimately want the rule that runs the morning scene from 6AM to 9:30AM or from Alarm to + 3.5 hours.

Thanks in advance!!!!

jabecker · January 27, 2020, 9:01pm

Post your rule, please.

greg.cole · January 27, 2020, 10:34pm

Actually combined them into 1 rule....

jabecker · January 28, 2020, 1:12am

Do you usually set the alarm to go off before 6 AM on MTWTF and before 8 AM on SaSu? Or always after? Or could be either before or after?

You might be able to do something with private boolean.

steve.maddigan · January 28, 2020, 1:47am

Your first Action should be: Cancel Delayed Actions
Edit the line with the delay and make it Cancellable

That way when it is triggered for the second time, it will cancel the delay (and any delayed actions) from the first time it was triggered.

greg.cole · January 28, 2020, 2:26am

Just implemented - will try it out
Thanks

steve.maddigan · January 30, 2020, 2:07am

So, how did it work?

greg.cole · February 1, 2020, 3:15pm

Sorry been away this week. Yes it did work!

steve.maddigan · February 2, 2020, 6:26pm

No apology necessary. I completely understand. My wife had a bday this week and my moms been in and out of the hospital. I haven’t done much either. I was just curious how you made out. I am glad it’s working.