Remind me about the subtle differences in different kinds of waits

[PunchCardPgmr]

So a DELAY (even without cancel-ability) just backs up triggered actions where, in the example below, the DELAY would not stop a backlog of repeating this rule's actions? I thought the DELAY was how you prevented this when you do not want the actions repeated for a few minutes despite continued triggering.

--> first trigger occurrence

action A
action B
DELAY 5 min

---> second trigger occurrence

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Addendum: Putting this here for future readers.

Totally Confused with Private Booleans & Rule Machine

It's not clear to me where the switch fits into this rule, so I assume there is something else to account for that. It is, then, also not clear to me exactly what you want this specific rule to handle, but here's my guess: turn on the lights when motion becomes active, then turn them off after a delay, but all only if Private Boolean is true? If so, as written, your "off" will happen even when Private Boolean is false--those actions are outside of the conditional that checks for this--so you'd n…