Turning lights on/off with time variance?

guice · January 20, 2020, 5:56pm

Is it possible to add a time variance to automations, e.g. a random time +/- 30 minutes?

I’m looking at building a vacation routine, and I need time variances so things don’t appear so…“static.”

I’m up for options in HA Automations, NodeRed, and AppDaemon.

paulstronaut · January 20, 2020, 6:01pm

I use the Vacation Timer in node-red for this!

You set a “max delay” and it will pick a random number of minutes between the time set and the max delay to turn on or off:

guice · January 20, 2020, 6:11pm

Oh Perfect! I had no idea they even had one like this. Thanks!

pniewiadowski · January 20, 2020, 7:34pm

Personally using this one and works pretty nice:

metbril · January 21, 2020, 5:58am

I have a “vacation” automation that uses a random delay to switch off the lights.

github.com

metbril/home-assistant-config/blob/62d7bd559f36b7b41509ab4537d5b406c9bf0d34/packages/occupancy.yaml#L196


  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id:
        - binary_sensor.occupancy
      to: 'off'
  action:
    - service: input_boolean.turn_on
      data:
        entity_id: input_boolean.occupancy_home

# schakel de verlichting uit tussen 23:00 en 23:30 als we op vakantie zijn
- alias: Schakel verlichting uit als op vakantie
  trigger:
    - platform: time
      at: '23:00:00'
  condition:
    - condition: state
      entity_id: sensor.occupancy
      state: 'vacation'
  action:
    # wacht tussen 0 en 29 minuten

bhennink · January 22, 2023, 3:48pm

This look verry promissing as a start.
Found how to install that contribution.
what I want to do on vacation and I guess I need to buid separate flows for that?
Switch some lights on at sundown wit say 15 minutes variation
Some other light on 1st floor on at a certain time with some variation and off after one hour

At ‘bedtime’ I want to switch all in the livingroom off
Switich after 1 minut the light on bedrooms on for 5 miuntes with some variation.

So big thing is when I have on flow telling to have light on for 3 hours
Can I then switch some lights off although the flow tells to stay on?