Mattress Pad rule to turn on at certain temp between times and turn off if no one is home @ 3am

[HERON]

Good afternoon,

Hopefully I did this correctly. I setup a rule that runs from 8pm - 8am. If my room temp hits 68 or lower, turn on heated mattress pad . If 69 or hotter, turn off but if it's 3am and I am not home, turn off. Last turn off heated mattress pad switch at 8am.

Thanks in advance for your help and comments.

[aaiyar]

I would suggest breaking this up into two rules:

Rule 1:

Required expression:
Time between 8:00PM and 8:00AM

Trigger Events:
Temperature of My Room Motion <= 68.0

Actions:

On: My bed warmer (command only switches that are off)
Wait for event: Temperature of My Room motion is >= 69.0
Off: My bed warmer (command only switches that are on)

The second rule can be triggered at two times: 3AM and 8AM to turn off the mattress pad. With an IF block at 3AM to only do so if your presence sensors are "not present".

[HERON]

Thank you! This makes more sense. I will make this change.

Now I understand why the option "command only switches that are on/off" exist.