Lutron caseta and hue lights, thank you

Don't do it completely random. I have some neighbors whose auto-lighting makes it completely obvious when they are away as you get the most improbable rooms lighting up at improbable times. Try to base it on your normal movements, but with up to half an hour's random variation each way

There is at least one "at home simulator" app on here. I would start there. Otherwise, just turn your normal lights on and off at fixed times and don't worry too much about it. Mine already go on and off at set times, and in the old days we just had simple on and off lamp timers so it is somewhat n…

[image] waffles: get a cat. My solution as well. Not quite random so it isn't obvious, but very unpredictable. Requires very little power.

[image] brad5: Requires very little power. Yea, but you have to clean up the barf and empty the litter box, and it stops working if you don't feed it.

[image] Vacation Lighting. Anyone have it running? All things Rule Machine Here is the beta version importUrl: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/imnotbob/vacation-lighting-director/beta/smartapps/imnotbob/vacation-lighting-director.src/vacation-lighting-director.groovy T…

Been using the Vacation Lighting Director app for a while, and very happy with it.

+1 on Random not being the best option. I actually use Alex guard right now for this, as it's slightly less random and in theory is based on your behaviors. I have a goal to move over to either the Vacation Lighting app or at home simulator, as I'd rather it looks much more normal.

I know this is an old app but as usual just discovered it and ow I have a use case. :slight_smile: My main mode is Away but now I want to include a vacation component. I have a Vacation switch which kills a lot of automation pistons when set and resumes when we return from vacation and I turn it o…

I have pushed an update to vacation lighting director that you can enter both mode list and a switch that needs to be on to activate VLD session. You can leave the switch field empty, and it should act as it does today with only mode driving operation. You hpm repair to get this (I have not forced…

What’s the best way to randomize lights to appear home?

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