Has anyone developed a scheduler app for scheduling the running of Rules?
I have a number of utility rules that I run daily (sometimes twice daily) and when a SystemStart occurs. Examples are the LED ON & OFF colors for light switches (daytime OFF is a different color than nighttime OFF for some switches) and setting a hub variable to a GMT offset (to be used in constructing DateTime strings).
Currently, I use a Rule Machine rule to run these types of rules spaced various times apart. For example, I start running the first rule 120 seconds after a trigger event (mostly because I want some time to elapse after a SystemStart to ease CPU loading), and then 30 seconds or so between rules. I realize that I could specify a trigger within each rule, but then I'd have to track when they start running (I wouldn't want all rules having a Sunset trigger to run at the same time, and I don't want to keep track of different offsets to space such rules out).
So not really a pressing need, just checking to see if someone's done a nice app.
You can run rule actions from other rules, so maybe one rule you run (manually or via some trigger) whenever/however you want that does this with whatever delay you want in between the "Run Rule Actions" actions?
The GCal Search app that I maintain can call rule actions based on Google calendar events. Not sure if this is what you are looking for but wanted to mention.
To clear up any confusion about this fact, allow me to clarify that I read the entire post (quoting only the most relevant point for succinctness), and the above was still not clear to me. For example, that could have been a rule like the one I suggested or just the first of several rules you were running -- or something else. A screenshot or at least more specifics, as suggested, can go a long way towards helping others see what may seem obvious to you, as, again, can sharing more about what you might want beyond that.
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Sorry for the confusion. I was focused on my question, not my existing solution (which works fine, just a bit inelegant and somewhat tedious to maintain compared to a well-designed app that allows rules to be picked from a list and corresponding times set)
John, I also enjoy using Evan's scheduling app. I wish there were more apps that use a table format. It is so much easier to get multiple devices set up the same way. I'd love to have Lights after Motion in a table format instead of individual child apps.
I use @thebearmay's Hub Information Manager driver to set a Wait Until CPU load is less than a certain level before each of the rules that I run at startup. This keeps the hub from being overloaded at startup. With all of the rules called from a single rule they run in a set sequence.
Do you mean something like this where I define the lights for each room and mode? Each room has a similar table like this. I can add as many light groups (Main, Accent, etc.) as I want.
If you search for a community app here, I think it's called Rule Manager if I remember correctly, the app pulls all the rules from Rule machine into itself to allow you to display them in the app.
A screenshot or at least more specifics, as suggested, can go a long way towards helping others see what may seem obvious to you, as, again, can sharing more about what you might want beyond that.
