This rule is working GREAT! If I leave the door open after 7 pm it sends me a message to my phone. I want to have it turn a light on too and I can do this in another basic app, but was not sure if I could do it all here somehow. I know in few weeks this is going to be perfected. However I was wondering if there was a work around here in rule machine until then.
This rule doesn't notify you if you leave the garage door open; it notifies you when you open the garage door and it happens to be between 7 PM and 3:30 AM.
Your conditional action is also unnecessary. Your rule triggers on the contact sensor opening. Checking if it's open as the first action in your rule is always going to return true -- that's why the rule triggered -- so it's basically the same as not being there.
If you want it to turn on a light, just add that as another action (and, again, I'd suggest replacing your simple conditional action with a regular action). But I suspect there is more. Do you want the rule to also turn the light off, and if so, how? And do you really want your existing rule to work as it does now or as you described above?
I'll also mention again that you are going to have an easier time if you read the documentation, as also suggested previously. And again, I would not suggest RM as your go-to for all automations. But as before, if you want to do it, the above would help.
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You may want something that looks more like the following...
This will catch the door already being left open at 7:00pm, as well as being left open between 7:00pm and 33:0am for at least 15 minutes.
However, as @bertabcd1234 mentioned, there is nothing that will turn off the light, if that is desired. It could easily be added...
For me, I simply use the built-in Notifications App to monitor any door in the house being left open for too long, regardless of the time of day.
Here is an example of one of my Notifier apps.
It will even send repeated notifications until the door is closed.
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Thank you so much this is great information. However because this like my 2nd rule in rule machine I was wondering if it would not be too much trouble if you could provide a screenshot of "Trigger Events" and "Actions"
Thanks so much again!
I have already deleted that example rule from my hub.
