App Request: Simple Timer

[JDRoberts]

There are three ways to do this now depending on exactly what you need. As is typical, smart things is very powerful, but not very intuitive.

One) if you just want the light to always turn off after it has been on for 15 minutes, you can just use the power allowance feature in the official smart lighting smart app. But in that case no matter how you turn it on it will turn itself off again after 15 minutes. And that’s not what most people want.

Two) if you want to sometimes have the light turned on on a timer, and other times turn it on and have it stay on, you can use a virtual timer there is a how to article with the instructions for this in the community – created wiki.

http://thingsthataresmart.wiki/index.php?title=How_to_create_a_virtual_timer_for_a_light

3. finally, if you want to do this without needing a virtual device and with additional multiple conditions, you can use core.

FAQ: What is WebCoRE? (And what was CoRE?)

CoRE (now WebCore) is a very powerful community – created rules engine for SmartThings. It allows you to set up stacked conditionals like “If A then B but only while C and not if D.” Setting it up can be quite complex, but there are many community members who will be glad to help you. For example, here is a piston that one member created to notify him if the dog had already been fed twice that day and he picked up the dog bowl for a third time. He needed this because he has a large family and people didn’t always remember whose turn it was to feed the dog. [image] The original version of CoRE Has now been replaced by a new version, WebCoRE, which moves the data entry to a web interface. This allows for flexibility and an architecture that requires more memory than is av…

So it can be done, it just depends on your exact requirements.