Hello, First post. I had been using Wink hub for a couple of months. It was a fun start, but felt like I couldn’t get past crawling. Switched last week to ST v2 hub. Wow, so much better! Anyway, I have one thing that I can’t figure out. I currently have IFTTT rule via Life360 to turn on a side por…

I assume you don’t have any sensors, right? If that’s the case then you can use modes. When both of you are not home, use the away mode. So when one (or both) of you comes home, run a routine that changes the mode to home and turns the lights on and then off after x minutes the lights you’d want off…

Bobby, thanks for the quick reply. I do have a sensor on the entry door, but we want this to run before we open the door because the light it outside. Here’s the thing that I think won’t work with modes… if my wife is home and I’m away, then the house is in home mode. When I arrive home, the outside…

I see…what really complicates things for you, is this scenario: [image] ngehlert: have these lights turn off after a set amount of time unless they were already turned on. Why do you need them to stay on, if they are already on, and how would you turn them off?

Really do appreciate your help! If you look at the Smart Light Timer smartapp by listpope, it does exactly this… turn a light on and then off after a certain amount of time, unless it was already on (only trigger, however, is motion sensor or contact sensor). If my wife is sitting in the living room…

Ok, it is definitely possible to create virtual sensors, but to make use of them you will need custom apps. An advantage of creating custom app is that you would eliminate the need to use IFTTT. One thing to consider, is the cloud vs local processing. A switch, a physical sensor and the Smart Light …

[image] ngehlert: I can have Life 360 and IFTTT trigger a virtual switch, so just a matter of linking that to a virtual motion sensor or contact sensor, which would trigger the Smart Light Timer smartapp, doing exactly what I want. Instead of a virtual sensor of any kind, it would be easier t…

@bravenel , thanks so much for that offer. I really appreciate it. I am familiar with the working of the Smartthings IDE (got my nest integrated), but creating smartapps is a little over my head - all that to say, thank you.

Having looked more at this app, I don’t think it’s likely to work very well. It’s somewhat convoluted. Perhaps I’ll scratch out a replacement.

Here is an app that does what you want: It turns on the lights when a Momentary Button Tile is turned on (which you would use Life 360 or IFTTT to do), and then turns them off x minutes later, unless they were already on. bravenel/SmartThings/blob/master/Turn off after some minutes unless …

@bravenel , thanks so much for your work on this. I’m heading out of town tonight for a work trip and don’t return until Sunday. So, I won’t get to play around with this until next week. It does look like that one is what I want - I’m excited to try it an report back!

Turn on light when ariving then turn off after minutes uless already on

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bravenel (Bruce) December 1, 2015, 8:38pm 16

You should check out Rule Machine and Trigger Happy!

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Turn on light when ariving then turn off after minutes uless already on

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