repeat event 10 times

[zsima]

what would be the easiest way to have an event (triggered by a sensor) repeat about 10 times every 30 seconds and then stop and reset itself?

Thanks

[Uncle Michael]

What is the nature of the event you want to repeat? Can you describe it in more detail?
I'm not clear about what you mean by "10 times every 30 seconds and then stop and reset itself". Do you mean that something will happen 10 times, then after 30 seconds there will be 10 more, repeating every 30 seconds? For how long?
Or do you mean that it will repeat every 30 seconds for a total of 10 times over 5 minutes?

If the latter, then one option would be to create a virtual device: VD1.
To start your repeat pattern, you'd run an event with two actions. One turns the device on. The other turns it off after a delay of 5 minutes.
Your repeat event would have a repeating trigger, every 30 seconds and a condition that VD1 is on.

[aa6vh]

Another way to do it (assuming the second case of every 30 seconds, 10 times):

EventA:

If <whatever triggers the sequence to start>
Then
Set counter X to 0
Run EventB

EventB:

If Manually Triggered
Then
Do whatever needs to be done
Wait 30 seconds
If Event Conditions are true, run EventC

EventC:

If Manually Triggered
And if Counter X is less than 10
Then
Increment counter X
Run event EventB

[zwolfpack]

Event #1
- Sensor X is your input
- for the action, choose 'Control a Timer', then choose 'Create/Edit Timers' and create a timer named MotionX Timer. Then select action 'Restart Timer'.

IF Sensor X changes and become Motion
THEN Start Timer MotionX Timer


Event #2
- for the trigger (IF), choose 'A recurring trigger happens', then choose 'The event will automatically trigger every...' and set the time to 30s
- for the condition (AND IF), choose 'A Timers Value is...' then choose 'A Timer's Value is less than...'. Select MotionX Timer and set the time to 5m, 0s

IF The event will automatically trigger every 30s
AND IF MotionX Timer's value is less than 5m, 0s
THEN (do what you want to do)