⏰ webCoRE - Pause / Wait 5 / Resume -Loses Wait Time

[albertjmulder]

So I have the following Piston that if my front door opens it pauses a piston for 5 mins and then resumes piston, however if the front door is opened before the timer is up it forgets the timer, and never resumes the piston

How can I rewrite this so that the timer continues or even restarts the timer upon door opening.

[nh.schottfam]

I think you want to look at:

https://wiki.webcore.co/Task_Cancellation_Policy

Likely. you want 'Never cancel tasks'

Writing motion pistons with webCoRE Pt1 and Task Cancellation Policy

This example reviews several motion piston options and discusses the ups and downs of each one. As most of us know, in home automation, events happen (be they sensors, or time based), and automations react to these events to complete some function. Let's look at a simple automation, that turns on a switch based on motion: [Simplemotion] Few notes: this piston uses a single trigger comparison (changes) to turn on a light this piston is incomplete, in that it will turn on a light, but t…

[albertjmulder]

Thanks, that will help me with some other automations I want to do. It kinda helped with this issue, I just changed it from changes to open to changes and that seems to reset the timer which will work for my needs. Thanks again!