Love your Blueprints, I am using Sensor Light in the Whole house
I want to ask you if you might be interestet in helping me, by maybe updating this blueprint (Run ON Timer), or maybe you have a much better idea on how to do it…
My usecase is:
I have some heattracing, on some piping, on the attic.
I also have an outdoor temp. sensor.
The idea is if the temp. fals to below 0 degress celsius, I need the timer to go on for maybe 5 minutes(adjustable), and then off, for maybe 1 hour(adjustable), turn on 5 min, and then off (you get the picture)…
This behavior should continue until the temp is above 0 degress celsius again.
I have made 2 timer helpers, an ON and a OFF timer
The trigger I could do with an automation on the side maybe, so your blueprint remain being a timer base. (I think I could make that with my limited skills, with a below or above trigger something )
In short words, can you make this blueprint an option to go, on and off, as long as the trigger is high? With the use of timer helpers(would be bad if the heating never turned off due to reboot).
Would/could you in anyway help me, and maybe ad this posibility to the blueprint?
@Blacky - how difficult would it be to add the bypasses you have in some of your other blueprints?
My scenario is I have a light and exhaust fan. I don’t always want the exhaust fan to turn on when the light is turned on. But if the exhaust fan is turned on, I want the timer to start when the light is turned off instead of right away.
hey @Blacky - I gave that a try but it doesn’t work quite the way I want it to. I don’t want to tie the trigger of turning the fan on with the light switch at all. Really what I’m looking to do is
Start a timer to turn off the fan after the fan has been turned on
If the light is on while the fan is running, reset and pause the timer until the light is turned off and then resume the timer
I don’t think I can achieve that with the other blueprint since it’s designed around using the light (or motion) as a trigger
I will explain why I develop it like this and how I use it as it may help you or anyone reading this.
My use case is to turn on my electric blanket in my bed. Depending on how cold it is depends on how long I would like my electric blanket ON. When developing it a slider is hard to set on your mobile phone and I just wanted something quick and easy. The electric blanket is plugged into a smart switch and it is turned ON for the max time. Safe guards are in the electric blanket controller so all is good.
I created 4 press button helpers and a timer helper.
Select any state change, enable all triggers, entered in my smart plug, enabled timer helper and enter in the helper.
Then I put each press button helper in each timer input.
Then with time I have one for 30 min, one for 2 hours, one for 4 hours and one for 9 hours.
Then I added each button helper into the dashboard and the timer helper (Tip: If you click on the timer helper you can stop it, pause it etc).
Now when I would like to turn on my electric blanket depending on how cold it is I just press the button for the time I would like, no slider to adjust just press.
It is a blueprint as I use this on all my beds and beds have 2 sides (2 controllers)
I don’t know if that will work for you but I thought I would explain this as it just could be what your looking for.
All your YAML looks good, just check your timer helper. Below is my one for your reference. Note the duration and the restart must be ticked so it will survive a HA restart.
I would like to switch on the light when a trigger is activated AND during night only
Another request:
could you add a notification system before and after the action ?
For instance, a notification is sent via Telegram or other solution before the light is switched on and another notification after it is back to off.
last question: how do you display remaining time of a timer please ? I can display the duration of the timer in a card but not the remaining time.
It is probably because you are using a device and not an entity. But have a look at this blueprint Manual light control with auto OFF it may be more inline with what you are trying to do.