Question

Is it possible to define the order of actions and pauses between them in ‚rules‘? Just like it is possible in HomeKit.  

Answer 1

In the new app you can set up multiple actions in an automation, with a delay for each. That should get you close,  

Comments

@dye ok i see. Unfortunately, the smallest delay is 10secs. Gets me close, but not too close  

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@vaas542 you might look at webcore then

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@vaas542 I agree with @dye on WebCoRE, but you also need to temper your expectations - Remember ST is a cloud system, due to the nature of cloud processing and network transit, you will have trouble getting reliable accurate delays on anything below a resolution of 5 seconds. It's possible, but I doubt it will be reliably faithful to your timings. ;) What's the use case?  

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@anatolia7046 thanks for your input. Use case would be house entrance where certain lights go on one after another once a motion sensor detects movement.  

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@vaas542 thats going to be. Difficult.  

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Lol! I have some scenes that supposedly turn on multiple lights at once, but they turn on in sequence. I think it's the nature of the beast!  

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You know, one workaround if you want to try it might be to turn on Lamp 1 and set a virtual switch 1. Then have an automation that uses Virtual switch 1 to turn on lamp 2 and virtual switch 2. Then another automation uses virtual switch 2 to turn on lamp 3. and so on. Personally I'd just turn them all on at once.  

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@dye nice idea. See, the source of my idea was that it is quite impossible to turn them on simultanously just like the hue App/bridge does. Even when i am using the hue bridge via SmartThings.  

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@dye good idea, however I think I'd just skip the virtual switches and use the trigger of the previous lamp/switch AND the original condition = true as a limiter. But it would have the intended effect I think.  

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@anatolia7046 yep, good idea

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@vaas542 WebCoRE will do what you want. Your first trigger is if motion changes to active turn on light 1. Wait. Turn in light 2. Wait turn in light 3 etc.  

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@lixivium3 ok fine, thx. Where can I find a „getting started with webcore“?