jsurles:
Hello,
've run into what I feel are limitations, but seem like I’m just missing something in the flexibility of triggers.
For instance, I have 3 presence monitors: Spouse, Child, and Self.
I want to create for 8 different presence scenarios:
No one is home, then Child comes home. (Done utilizing away)
These are fails because of he lack of granularity:
Spouse is home, then Child comes home.
If I could add multiple presence IFs it would be great:
If
Spouse is NOT home (precondition)
Self is NOT home (precondition)
Child is home
then
Setup the house like Child wants
When looking up solutions, I run into mentions of webcore, groovy ide, etc… but all of these things seem to be deprecated (or on the verge of it). The latest thing I see seems to be Edge… but I’ve had no luck in finding clear documentation on how it works or how to utilize it.
Any advice on avenues to achieve this?
I had similar issues with the built-in automations. I’ve been a long-time Webcore user, and I’ve found the Webcore automations to be very powerful and flexible. I could do many things in one automation.
My experience with the built-in Automations or Routines or whatever they’re called now is that you could probably achieve the same, but you need many independent automations. No way to nest them and put enough preconditions to avoid some unpredictable behavior.
This was my situation:
Hi all,
I’m going to try to ask a question about something that has been puzzling me in the way Automations operate. I’ve not done a good job of describing the issue in a couple of posts over the last few days.
I’ll speak to a simple example - let’s say I’m trying to turn on a light if either of two contact sensors is opened.
I create the following automation:
[Screenshot 2021-10-25 at 6.42.00 PM]
Notice I selected what I would think is the OR operator: “when any condition below is met”.
The Automation works fine when I start with both doors closed and open either of the two. The light turns on.
The strange behavior I am experiencing is that if I start with both doors OPEN, the light turns on when I CLOSE one of them. This is not what I’d expect as I haven’t opened either of the…