zg825 Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 I finished programming all my lights and set up various schedules. I am trying to add some more nice to have automations added in. Every night at sunset, I have a series of outside lights. Starting a few hours later, various outside lights will turn off depending on where they are at in the house. Two of the lights, the front porch & rear security light turn off at 10:30. Another light What I want to happen is: If the time is after 10:30, and front door contact opens, then Front Porch Lights turn on for 10 minutes then turn off. Another thing I want to happen separately is : If the outside music speaker is on then the rear security light should not turn off at the 10:30 scheduler. Once the music is off, then 10 minutes later, the lights should turn off. The idea is that if we are outside, we don't the lights to shut off at 10:30 on us. But after 10:30, I would like the lights to turn off after 10 minutes. I'm not sure if this is the best way, but maybe the program would say something like : If it is 10:29 and music is on, the rear flood lights are on. Once music turns off, then lights turn off 10 minutes after that. What I also need some direction on is where I should put this code. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Coolabode Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 Use conditionals to create these parameters. Will be in programming on the right side. I'd put it on the schedule programming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eggzlot Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 54 minutes ago, zg825 said: I finished programming all my lights and set up various schedules. I am trying to add some more nice to have automations added in. Every night at sunset, I have a series of outside lights. Starting a few hours later, various outside lights will turn off depending on where they are at in the house. Two of the lights, the front porch & rear security light turn off at 10:30. Another light What I want to happen is: If the time is after 10:30, and front door contact opens, then Front Porch Lights turn on for 10 minutes then turn off. Another thing I want to happen separately is : If the outside music speaker is on then the rear security light should not turn off at the 10:30 scheduler. Once the music is off, then 10 minutes later, the lights should turn off. The idea is that if we are outside, we don't the lights to shut off at 10:30 on us. But after 10:30, I would like the lights to turn off after 10 minutes. I'm not sure if this is the best way, but maybe the program would say something like : If it is 10:29 and music is on, the rear flood lights are on. Once music turns off, then lights turn off 10 minutes after that. What I also need some direction on is where I should put this code. for the first one - set up an schedule agent for 10:30pm and say another one for dusk and also create a timer then you can do IF After 10:30pm IF before dusk When Door Contact sensor opens Start 10 min front porch light timer Then under the timer you can say when the 10 minute ends, turn off the lights For the rear lights, have those on a T/F variable so the programming is If the Rear Music is on set Rear Music to True Then at 10:30 that light only goes off if that Rear Music Variable is False, not true You can then do if Room off is pressed after say 10:30, start another different 10 minute rear light timer, turn on the lights and when the timer runs out turn off the lights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Lowe Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 this can be done fairly lightly as well. I would just create a couple lines of code. for the front door when the front door opens if night time turn on the light when it closes start a timer when timer expires if after 1030pm turn off light. as for the back yard schedule event happens at 1030 if the backyard is off turn off the light when back yard turns off if after 1030 pm start timer when timer expires if back yard is off turn off light We also have a training course for composer home edition. In this course, we will be using the same Composer Home software available to you as the end-user. We will go through real-life situations to automate your home, troubleshoot your system, and educate you about the tools you have as a consumer. We hope this course will help to take full advantage of your investment in Control4. You can see our first video here for free on youtube.com . You can sign up here on our Pateron Site. We will be offering a lot of benefits for our supporters including discounts on all walts.com products, private discord channel, free email support, and much more. Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions. RyanE 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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