Repeating Event - Every X Days - HOW?

[mstrickland]

I have been looking for a way to easily manage a few repeating events that occur on an Every X Day basis in my HS4 system.

I know I can create an event to repeat every so many hours. Example: 144 hours = every 6 days.

BUT ... To make the event start on a specific date and time it appears I would have to create the event on the day and hour schedule where I wanted it to start. I could do that but it is not very handy if I have a small assortment of events that start on different times and days.

I have looked at some of the PlugIns. Some seem to have some bugs for repeating Every X Days. One uses Google Calendar and I don't want to go that way. Some seem to be pretty old and maybe no longer supported actively.

Are there any tricks I am missing to pick a date and time to start a repeating event?

Thanks.

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[George]

Take a look at EasyTrigger schedules.

[mstrickland]

I looked at EasyTrigger schedules but I can't see a way to set something for every 6 days. That would mean Friday this week, Thursday next week, Wednesday the week after, etc.

EasyTrigger does allow setting a schedule for different days for a week but it appears it will repeat those same days for each new week.

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[mulu]

I haven't tried this but let's say your even is "DoSomething". In the THEN part you do whatever you need to do. Then use a timer and set it to 6 days. Then you will another event that executes when the timer reaches 0 at which point you call the event "DoSomething". It's a bit convoluted because you need two events and I timer but I think that might work.

[jon00]

Take a look at my DaysTill utility which should provide the functionality you want: https://forums.homeseer.com/forum/3r...r-3-homeseer-4

[Uncle Michael]

I may not understand exactly what you want to do, but what do you get if you create an event with the required repeat frequency and disable it, then enable it (with EasyTrigger) when you want it to begin?

[Guest]

You could also use a simple HS counter. At the appointed time of the day, increment the counter. Then trigger your "do something" when the counter gets to 6, and reset the counter back to zero.

[tmaddison]

Thanks for "Guest"'s tip on the counter (from a fellow Oceansider..)

To elaborate a bit, setting up counters is found in the Tools menu. You need to do this first.

I'm trying to turn a device on every three days at 7am.

Once I have my counter set up, in an event group I have a entry to increment MyCounter every day at 6:59am. Then I have an entry that says if it's 7am and MyCounter is equal to 3, trigger the device on, then reset the counter to 0.

Still testing, but it worked once so far... (and you can manually set the value of your counter whenever you want to, which makes it easy to test...)

[jon00]

Yet another option: https://forums.homeseer.com/forum/3r...and-homeseer-4

[randy]

This would also work. Run the event once manually, then it will run every 6 days. When the timer reaches 6 days, it will restart at 0.