Private Boolean not setting back to False

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Hi All

I am using an IR blaster to turn on my split system. Without the private boolean the rule keeps triggering each time office motion is active.

what do i want it to do?
Trigger only once every say 30 mins.

What's happening
The private boolean is always remaining true. So it is not triggering. I switched the setup around as perhaps it can't first trigger and it triggered then but it is still not setting the boolean to false after it's run.

What am I doing wrong here? is there a simpler way to make a rule run only once every 30 mins?

thank you

IF (Office Motion, Office Motion 2 any active(T) AND
Time between 3:00 AM AEST and 7:00 PM AEST(T) AND
Day in Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday(T) AND
Temperature of Office Motion(10.49) is < 17.0(T) AND
Private Boolean is false(F) [FALSE]) THEN
SendStoredCode(On) on Office Split
SendStoredCode(Heating_Mode) on Office Split --> delayed: 0:00:03
SendStoredCode(Temp_23) on Office Split --> delayed: 0:00:04
Cancel Delayed Actions
Set Private Boolean True
Set Private Boolean False --> delayed: 0:30:00
END-IF
ELSE-IF (Office Motion, Office Motion 2 all inactive(F) [FALSE]) THEN
SendCode(Off) on Office Split --> delayed: 0:20:00 (cancelable)
END-IF

2

We need to see what is triggering the currently to see if the Boolean is operating correctly.

You can select "Periodic Schedule" in the trigger of the rule.

3

Ah right well right now it's only triggered by motion
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4

Something looks weird with your rule. I see

IF THEN
END-IF
ELSE-IF
END-IF

Not sure how you can get the ELSE-IF after the END-IF.

5

right ..I thought it would skip the end if it the first if doesn't action
i'll try removing it the end if thank you

6

I would reverse the PB logic of your rule and it should run.

IF (Office Motion, Office Motion 2 any active AND
Time between 3:00 AM AEST and 7:00 PM AEST AND
Day in Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday AND
Temperature of Office Motion is < 17.0 AND
Private Boolean is true) THEN
    SendStoredCode() on Office Split
    SendStoredCode() on Office Split --> delayed: 0:00:03
    SendStoredCode() on Office Split --> delayed: 0:00:04
    Cancel Delayed Actions
    Set Private Boolean False
    Set Private Boolean True --> delayed: 0:30:00
ELSE-IF (Office Motion, Office Motion 2 all inactive(F) [FALSE]) THEN
    SendCode() on Office Split --> delayed: 0:20:00 (cancelable)
END-IF

I converted all by Private Boolean rule to use Local Boolean Variables. This allowed me to change the boolean value easily and helped me when debugging my rules.