In a HomeSeer native Device Control action, a delay can be imposed on the action. This is only available on HomeSeer Device Control Actions, not on 3rd party (plug-in) Device controls.
In an Event when you control a Device you are presented with "After Waiting:" where you can select from a second to several days or anything in between. Here I have imposed a delay of 5 minutes.
When the above Event is run the Action will be delayed by 5 Minutes. As in Delayed Events, HomeSeer will create a fresh Event with a time dependent Trigger. It will be placed in a special Event Group "Delayed Actions"
Inside the group will be a new Event to perform the Action, with a time Trigger Exactly 5 minutes after the first Event has run.
You should also note that the Event has the advanced option "Remove This Event After Triggering" selected. In summation the steps are as follow:
Any Delayed Device Action in the queue Group can be cancelled by the Event Action "Cancel a Delayed Device Action", before it runs. If you cancel a Delayed Device Action for a particular Device, all delayed Events for that device will be Cancelled. This will be covered in another Thread.
In an Event when you control a Device you are presented with "After Waiting:" where you can select from a second to several days or anything in between. Here I have imposed a delay of 5 minutes.
When the above Event is run the Action will be delayed by 5 Minutes. As in Delayed Events, HomeSeer will create a fresh Event with a time dependent Trigger. It will be placed in a special Event Group "Delayed Actions"
Inside the group will be a new Event to perform the Action, with a time Trigger Exactly 5 minutes after the first Event has run.
You should also note that the Event has the advanced option "Remove This Event After Triggering" selected. In summation the steps are as follow:
- The first Event runs with a Delay on the Device Action
- A secondary (self-deleting) Event is created with a Time Trigger equal to the current time plus the Delay imposed in th action. In the above case 5 minutes
- After the time has lapsed the secondary Event will run, performing the device action called for in the first Event
- The secondary Event is deleted after running
- Since the Delayed Device Action temporary Event has a time trigger, if HomeSeer is down at the time of the trigger, it will run the next day at that time.
Any Delayed Device Action in the queue Group can be cancelled by the Event Action "Cancel a Delayed Device Action", before it runs. If you cancel a Delayed Device Action for a particular Device, all delayed Events for that device will be Cancelled. This will be covered in another Thread.
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