Is there there an app to simulate being home when you're gone

SmartApps & Automations Automation Ideas
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Something that randomly turns various lights on an off? (Yes, I did search for this prior to asking).

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Try searching for “vacation lighting”. I would post a link but my phone won’t let me get to the link right now.

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Vacation lighting Director

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Vacation Lighing Director stopped working for me when we switched to Daylight Savings Time, I’ve removed and re-added it several times since then to no avail,

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Looks like Vacation Lighting Director has also quit working for me. I happen to be away tonight and just reviewed my logs.

Not sure if I’ll fix it it or just move the function to CoRE. I know there is a thread that has a pseudo random program for controlling lights when away using CoRE.

This is not the first time vacation lighting director has quit working for me too.

I suppose I should have checked to see if it was working before recommending it. My apologies to the OP.

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I think this is working for me. I am not at my house at the moment and I can see this:

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Nice work on this @anon36505037!

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Thank you for the Piston. It looks great and now I don’t have to go hunting or reinvent the wheel and write one. I appreciate you sharing!

It would be nice if we could set up some type of area to share all of our Pistons in searchable format once web core is completed.

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Amen to this! So many of us are very very new. I couldn’t re-create this core in a million years. I could tweak it but I couldn’t create it.

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If you have webCoRE installed you could import this and modify accordingly.
I have a couple of these for different lights.
They could all be in one piston but I like to keep mine separate.
Using a ‘While’ means this just keeps cycling round and round while the piston is true.

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Here is a core piston I use at my parents house for away lighting. Basically sunset-sunrise if both are gone, each time it runs it randomly sets a lightnum and lightlevel variable. Lightnum determines which light runs and lightlevel sets the brightness. So you get random lights, random times on, and random brightness.

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Lots of ways to skin this cat as you can see.

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Indeed. I think for a lot of us newbies, it’s crawl->walk->run, I’m probably still crawling but getting more knowledge as time goes by.

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