I created a custom irrigation setup in rule machine. It waters for a set number of minutes and then repeats the cycle based on the season using the Repeat x times every y hours action. Today I updated my hub while the cycle was running ("Repeat (1) times every 01:00:00"). I went outside later to find my yard flooded. During the winter it's set to only run once every 7 days and the repeat cycle is only 1. I would expect that when the hub came back up that the repeat would happen only once and then stop. It was instead on an endless repeat cycle.
I have a rule that performs certain actions after a power outage or reboot. I added a step to stop any repeating actions, but I have not tested that yet.
I was wondering if anybody else had run into any similar situations with repeating actions after a reboot and what they did to correct it. Or is this a bug?
This is what I was going to suggest. Since you have done it already perhaps you should post a copy of your rule. Maybe someone will have a suggestion on how to account for that better.
Yup! Mine was an inside plant irrigation system. Fortunately I have a water leak sensor underneath the irrigation area and my repeat rule shuts off if the water leak sensor detects water. But the first time it happened I did the same thing you did - my startup rule shuts down the irrigation switch that's part of the WHILE and also cancels repeat actions.
No. It actually was repeating. I had to manually stop it. The Run Actions statements in my rule call another rule that writes out the zone and time to a Google sheet. It recorded several cycles.
Thanks for the suggestions. I also added the valve shutoff commands to my System Startup rule. I think that should cover any scenario.
