Multiple On and Off

[JDRoberts]

Usually the issue with this is how precise the timing has to be and how quick it has to be.

You won’t be able to do it with the official features if the time between changes is less than one minute.

You might still be able to do it with webcore even if you need changes that are only a few seconds apart. You will certainly be able to create a “piston“ (which is what Webcore calls their automations), it’s just a question of whether it actually executes with enough precision for your switch to accept it. But there are a number of community members who have done something similar.

If you don’t have a technical background, webcore can look a little confusing at first, but there are many people using it and lots of them will be glad to help you. They even have their own forum.

Here’s the community FAQ about Webcore. (The topic title is a clickable link) That post also has a link to their forum.

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 [image] The original version of CoRE Has now been replaced by a new version, WebCoRE, which moves the data entry to a web interface.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…