"Hey it's been X hours and the Well Pump is still pumping" Rule

[bertabcd1234]

@PunchCardPgmr

ongoing reminder

Ah, no, sorry, I must have missed that. You could go back to the Rule Machine idea. To get the repeated notifications, you could use some idea from this thread:

How to get Repeated Notifications using Rule Machine

To get something to notify repeatedly until some conditions are met, try one of these: If a single condition is going to become true to mean to stop: Trigger Event: whatever starts the notification Actions: IF (NOT condition) REPEAT [notification interval] Send "notification" TO notification device END-REP That is a While Loop. It going to repeat while the Simple Conditional condition is true, and then it will stop once it's false. Here is a concrete example of that: Trigger …

And actually, come to think of it, the built-in Notifications app might even be able to do that all instead. What I don't remember off the top of my head is if it can handle the "6 hours" thing, as I know there were some limits on time for certain things when I looked at this in the past...