Motion Control - Getting light to stay on

[Sebastien]

@cuirbear

1. If the door stays unlocked, will that affect the light turning off?
2. Same is contact is left opened - will light stay on?
   Or are both of these one and done?

Answers:

1. The light will turn on when the door is unlocked and turn of in 20 minutes, regardless of whether it is locked again or not.

2. The light will turn off 20 minutes after the door was opened regardless of whether it is closed again or not.

3. The light will turn off 20 minutes after it received the first motion event. It will also most likely turn off 20 minutes after every other motion events it received. (Same if you open / unlock the door). I would recommend you add a “Cancel Delayed Actions” at the top (first action of the rule) to avoid this.

See the following link for more information on “Cancel Delayed Actions”:

Correct way in Rule Machine to do this light on motion then off after 5 minutes?

A "delay" will not be cancelled unless you mark it as such and also run a "Cancel Delayed Actions" action somewhere. A "wait" of any kind will be cancelled automatically when the rule is triggered. So, in your rule, if you press button 1, then wait four minutes, then press it again, the light will turn off one minute (not five) after that last press--nothing cancelled the originally scheduled delay. A wait would be cancelled with the second button press because that is a trigger event for your …