Scene for sliding gate logic

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I’m using a Fibaro dual relay (but just one of the outputs) to control a sliding gate that has the following logic in the control sequence.
First pulse (I use 2 sec) opens the gate - no problem there!
after a timeout in the gate logic, the gate automatically closes (about a minute) - no problem there either.
BUT
If you wish the gate to remain open indefinitely, you send a second pulse to start the closing sequence (before the auto-close feature occurs) and immediately after you send a further pulse which stops the gate and it remains in that state.

So I tried writing a scene which sends a pulse, delay 2secs (gate starts to open), wait 30 secs (gate is now open), send another pulse (gate starts to close) and after 1 sec, send a further pulse to stop it.

Trouble is that Vera UI7 (and 5) sorts the delays in increasing order and not the sequence desired.

I tried again using 2 separate scenes. One to open the gate - no problem and another to hold it open (again no problem), but how do I chain the two together so that I can open the gate and hold it open with one command?

Is this a job for PLEG or the PLT? If so, how please?

Thanks in advance for any advice!

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You can use PLEG for this:

Inputs:
GateTimer On-Self Trigger, Off Interval 1:00 minute
Pulse ??? I have no idea what is triggering your PULSE
GateOpen Indicates Gate is Open

OpenGate Pulse and (Not GateOpen)
CloseGate (GateOpen; !GateTimer) and ((Pulse; GateTimer)

Actions:
OpenGate Open the Gate and Trigger GateTimer (Advance Tab, Select PLEG Device, StartTimerAction, timer name is GateTimer)
CloseGate Close the Gate

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Richard

Thanks very much, but although I’ve installed PLEG I’ve not used it yet! I’ll see if I can get to grips with it.

My pulse is triggered by a manual input from my iPhone (Vera Mate) or by a schedule.

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See:
http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,21603.0.html