BST and GMT and using both

Plugins & Plugin Development Program Logic (PLEG)
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The electric company have just replaced my meter as there was a ‘fault’ with the last one. I have economy rates at certain times of the day, but the meter was updating the economy rate times for BST, which is not what the electric company want. The eco rates should only be GMT and not move.

Is there a way to update certain scenes and PLEGs with GMT and some with BST?

e.g., i still want lighting scenes to come on at the actual BST time.
e.g., water heater should only come on at GMT times now, hence right now (summer) would be an hour out.

I would prefer to keep Vera time as BST and correct for most scenes, but then somehow change the PLEG (mostly used for the heating) with GMT so i don’t need to update it.
Is there a way?

thanks.

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I currently use the following condition to turn a ‘master’ virtual switch on.
other scenes are conditional on this switch being on.

(13:00:00;now;15:59:59) or (20:00:00;now;21:59:59) or (00:00:00;now;04:59:59)

Thank you

3

PLEG (and Vera scene Schedules) do not know about time zones.
The timezone is configured. Then all schedules use the defined timezone.

4

so i’ll have to go in and change the condition hours for spring/fall to fully align PLEG?

(such a hardship i know!)

Thank you

5

You can have a Virtual Switch (Multi-Switch) that you toggle and let your conditions select the appropriate schedule:

Schedules:

GMTSchedule On at 5:00 Off at 6:00
BSTSchedule On at 10:00 Off at 11:00

Inputs:
UseGMT Some Virtual Switch

Condition:
DoSomething … and (UseGMT ? GMTSchedule : BSTSchedule)

You can even have a schedule to change the UseGMT Virtual Switch for you.

6

you’re a genius!