Turning on a light from IFTTT auto turn off after x mins unless triggered from swtich?

[JDRoberts]

@pateldmitesh

How do you get the light to turn off after 20 mins?

I setup IFTTT to turn on porch light when new motion detected from Ring but don’t know how to turn off after 1 minute?

There are two ways.

You could have IFTTT turn on a virtual switch which can act as a timer instead of directly turning on your regular switch. See the how to article in the community – wiki for setting that up:

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

Alternatively, you can use web core, which is a very powerful community created rules engine and lets you do all kinds of things. However, set up is fairly complicated and it might be overkill for just a simple light timer.

There are lots of community members will be glad to help you with it if you do decide to use web core. Here’s the initial FAQ for that:

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 [image] The original version of CoRE Has now been replaced by a new version, WebCoRE, which moves the data entry to a web interface.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