Want a pump to turn on for 15 mins every hour, but can't work out how - newby question

1

Hi
I currently use “webthings gateway” to control my Tasmota devices. I want to move everything over to HA ( with Mosquito MQTT & the Tasmota add on)
One of those Tasmota devices turns on a pump in my hydroponics for 15 minutes on the hour every hour - So when minutes =00 then on & when minutes =15 off
I have dug around in the automation and for the life of me I cannot see anyway of doing it ( I can create 24 different rules to turn it on each hou and another 24 to turn it of at XX:15, but surely there is something I can do that is not so clumsy?
Any help greatly appreciated… If I need to add a script manually, remember that I have only just fired up HA and worked out ho to get the Tasmota devices to talk to it , so I will probably need nursing through :slight_smile:

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You could use time_pattern and then use a delay.

Something like (not complete and not tested):

alias: Test
description: ""
trigger:
  - platform: time_pattern
    minutes: 0
condition: []
action:
  - service: input_boolean.turn_on
    data: {}
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 15
      seconds: 0
      milliseconds: 0
  - service: input_boolean.turn_off
    data: {}
mode: single
3

Hmmm that looks like it… now to work out how this “template” thing works :slight_smile:
Thanks

4

Or simply, when 45mins off, turn on for 15mins, then turn off ?

description: "after off 45 mins, turn on for 15min"
mode: single
trigger: []
condition:
  - condition: device
    type: is_off
    device_id: 4b95cd43e600497cad970f5a92700d30
    entity_id: light.car_port1
    domain: light
    for:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 45
      seconds: 0
action:
  - type: turn_on
    device_id: 4b95cd43e600497cad970f5a92700d30
    entity_id: light.car_port1
    domain: light
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 15
      seconds: 0
      milliseconds: 0
  - type: turn_off
    device_id: 4b95cd43e600497cad970f5a92700d30
    entity_id: light.car_port1
    domain: light

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Alltho, this might not keep it exactly every hour start …

5

A schedule helper to turn it on every hour? The slots seem to be 30 minutes long, so you would need another timer helper to turn it off after 15 min.

6

You can do it via the UI

7

LMGTFY…

How can i toggle a switch to turn on and off every 15 minutes between two times? - #4 by tom_l)

8

Not sure I can see how @Mats789 , but I am still learning the granularity is not there , it seems to only show "if it is this hour, then X , but I would need 48 separate automations, like I said in my original post, but would love to be proved wrong :slight_smile: .

9

Thanks @Digeridrew but that isn’t what I am trying to do here …

10

Not sure really what you struggling with :slight_smile:

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thanks… I have seen what I was missing… It confused me, but i am getting there… I am working on turning my “Webthings Gateway” off so I can free up the Raspberry Pi. Home Assistant and MQTT is making my head spin :slight_smile:

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The example provided by Drew does exactly this:

Just remove the condition.

- id: tasmota_on
  alias: Tasmota On (on the hour)
  trigger:
    - platform: time_pattern
      hours: "*"
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 0
  action: 
    - service: switch.turn_on
      target:
        entity_id: switch.tasmota

- id: tasmota_off
  alias: Tasmota Off (after 15 minutes)
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: switch.tasmota
      to: 'on'
      for:
        minutes: 15
  action: 
    - service: switch.turn_off
      target:
        entity_id: switch.tasmota