Wait for event
when event happens do this....
but if event doesn't happen within this time frame then do this....
I can't seem to wrap my head around how to pull this off.
Reverse your thoughts, i.e. start a timer, if expires do…., if event before expires stop timer and do….., restart timer
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If you look at %device% after a wait, it will be equal to "Timeout" if the wait event never occurred and it timed out.
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Is that documented somewhere, or did you just happen to notice this as a side-effect of WAIT?
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Not sure where/if it's documented, but there has been some discussion on the forum about it.
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I was using that timeout but I couldn't seem to sort out of how to get a different action to execute if it times out versus completes.
I know I use this in some rule but I can't remember which one, or I would post it as an example.
Basically after the wait set a string variable equal to %device%. If the variable contains "Timeout" then do one thing, else do another thing.
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I'd be really interested in seeing that when you can.
i would do something like:
wait for event: door open if door = open then do stuff end if if door = closed then do something else end if
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