Hi All the experts,
I’m new to HA, and loved it so much because it can integrate many different products onto 1 single platform along with Zigbee2mqtt.
I originally used Philips Hue only, and their automation works like a dream especially for when I’m going on vacation, their randomised timer (see screenshot attached) allows me to turn on the device, in my instance a light, at a set time with options to choose how many minutes in total to randomised in between before and after my set time, then turning the light randomly at the end of the automation.
So, in my screenshot, I set the light to turn on the light at 8:30pm but randomised for 45 minutes, so between 22.5 minutes before or 22.5 minutes after this time, then turning off the light at 9:30pm with the same randomised timer.
The randomised timer also allow me to set the maximum of 60 minutes, so 30 minutes before and 30 minutes after the set time, or other length of timer, like total of 10, 15 and 30 minutes.
After enjoying the Hue smart lights in my house, I started buying more smart devices, like Amazon Plug, Ikea Zigbee devices, innr lights, but none of their apps has this randomised timer available.
Now, I have joined the Home Assistant family, and integrated the devices onto Home Assistant, I would like to request this randomised timer option to be added as standard options please.
I have already searched through the forum and online, but people mentioned yaml script did not work, or an add-on from HACS which learns from the previous histories, but my habit was to turning things off from the mains rather than turning off from the app to save the electric, which means HA most likely would not recognise my smart devices usage pattern.
Hope what I said make sense to everyone, and hope this can be added as standard options.
Thanks for your time to read my post, hope you all have a nice day.