For e.g. if my smoke detector goes off when I am not at home I want it to send a message to my mobile … then delay for 10 seconds and do this 10 times so that I don’t miss it!
The interface could be something similar to the “And” condition Where you select “Loop” as the action type and it opens a sub section where you can add sub actions. There should also be two fields: a “For” and “While”…
For being an int and While being Jinja2 that returns a bool… both should be able to be entered so for eg I can have it loop 10 times but only while smoke is still detected.
I still think a loop would be better … more flexibility…
Also with the alert integration I would have to set up 8 of them for each of my entities (smoke detectors)… or make a template sensor that “monitors” the smoke sensors and changes its state to the name of the first offending smoke detector (as I want to be aware of what sensor is triggered)… nether I think are good solutions.
There was a thread a couple of days ago in which someone want to perform the actions three times so a loop would have been the answer as opposed to wring the same actions one after the other. Especially if you want to do that more than a few times.
But they needed a condition controlling the number of times so not exactly the same. Unless you could also have a condition in the loop to stop executing the loop early. That would be even better.
The interface could be something similar to the “And” condition Where you select “Loop” as the action type and it opens a sub section where you can add sub actions. There should also be two fields: a “For” and “While”…
For being an int and While being Jinja2 that returns a bool… both should be able to be entered so for eg I can have it loop 10 times but only while smoke is still detected.
