Running a piston once a day

[RobE (Rob Eichhorn)]

I have a basic piston that is set to turn a light on when I arrive home after sunset on a Tuesday. I’d like this piston to run once only on a Tuesday, not everytime I arrive.

Can someone explain the best logic to use.

[eibyer]

You can set it up similar to this, except reset the variable after midnight.

CoRE - Get peer assistance here with setting up Pistons

I use a variable for that, there might be other ways… The variable buttonPushed needs to be initialized first with value of false. Give this a try. IF Button changes to on AND Variable buttonPushed is false Using location... > Set boolean variable buttonPushed = true > Wait 45 minutes > Send text > Set boolean variable buttonPushed = false

[enduser (Kevin Gibson)]

Couldn’t you do something like this? I don’t have a light so I substituted a smart plug I have named tv.

[c1arkbar (Dustin Clark)]

I think this is the simplest and best example here. No need for variables or virtual switches. The control is already implemented.

[rxsamg (Sam G)]

@c1arkbar

I think this is the simplest and best example here. No need for variables or virtual switches. The control is already implemented.

But it doesn’t satisfy original posters request, Kevin’s piston would execute repeatedly if presence changed multiple times on Tuesday, unless I’m missing something?

@RobE

run once only on a Tuesday

[enduser (Kevin Gibson)]

Good point. I read that as basically only on Tuesday but I think you are right what he is actually meaning is only once on a Tuesday.

[RobE (Rob Eichhorn)]

Thanks everyone for the input. This is what I’ve set up;

[ady624 (I hate Mondays)]

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