I am new to Smartthings, but am struggling to how to randomize lights during a specific time period when i leave the house. I am using Leviton lights and Leviton app has a home and away toggle. Ideally, it would be great to have that switch toggle back and forth based on my location with smartthin…

Mariano, I have a specific use case and this SmartApp does exactly what I need except for one tweak I need. How can I build a delay before the next On event? So if the device is on and finishes the random time and turn off, I want to have a delay of at least 1 hour before the device turns on again.…

[image] fstr: So if the device is on and finishes the random time and turn off, I want to have a delay of at least 1 hour before the device turns on again. I does not have to be a specific duration, just at least one hour. I do not know if I have understood it correctly, but if you choose the…

Sorry that I wasn’t clear. I want to have the time the switch is on be low. Something between 5 and 10 minutes. And then I want the off time to be (something between 5 and 10 minutes + 60 minutes). So I just want to add 60 minutes to the timeCalculate when the next on delay is calculated. I was lo…

@Mariano_Colmenarejo I think that @fstr is looking for something like Fan Circulation Schedule you implemented in Zigbee Thermostat or combination of both Random and Scheduled Random Min Time Random Max Time Random Off Time

[image] fstr: I was looking at your code but could not figure it out because you calculate the random time first and then when the delay is over you pass it to the dimmer device in an if statement (if on turn off / if off turn on). I tried adding an additional runIn in the if statement but it is…

So simple! Thank you very much! I will give it a try.

Actually, it is running into the same problem I had when trying to update the code myself; When it calculates the first delay (before the first run), the dimmer is not defined yet so it cannot know the state of a dimmer that is not defined. error java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke meth…

What about No worries while away in SmartThings Labs? [image]

[image] fstr: Actually, it is running into the same problem I had when trying to update the code myself; When it calculates the first delay (before the first run), the dimmer is not defined yet so it cannot know the state of a dimmer that is not defined. I already have it, but I want to impr…

@fstr , It is already modified, I have left the lines changed with // in case you want to see it. I added a variable that adds an increment o the calculated random time. When switch changes to Off, Increment = 3600 and when it changes to On, Increment = 0. The other did not work, because it was …

Vacation Mode / Randomize Lights?

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Mariano_Colmenarejo (Mariano Colmenarejo) August 24, 2022, 3:32pm 49

with this virtual device you can activate a random secuence.
Then you could do automations to imitate this random secuence in one or several devices.

You could create Two or three virtual devices to made two or three differents random secuences

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