Timed scene

Developer's Corner Scene Scripting
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This seems so easy, and I think I should probably do it with the countdown timer, but that seems like overkill.

I have a water recirculation pump that is on a weekly schedule. However, occasionally, I want to turn it on during a scheduled off period. I only want it to run for 10 minutes, then go off. (the example is needing to take a shower in the middle of the day when the scheduled scene would normally have the pump off).

In thinking through using countdown timer, if I set it up to start counting down when the pump comes on (via appliance module), it will turn off the pump after 10 minutes, even if I had the schedule setup to keep it on for an hour.

what am I missing?

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This is the sort of logic that is more easily handled by PLEG. If you have an existing PLEG device, this would only require two Schedules and three Conditions. Something like:

Schedules
PumpDaily On: Weekly … Off: Weekly …
PumpTimer On: SelfTrigger Off: Interval 00:10;00

Triggers
PumpOn Pump switched on

Conditions
DoPumpOn PumpDaily
PumpManual PumpOn and !PumpDaily
DoPumpOff !PumpDaily or (!PumpDaily and (PumpManual; !PumpTimer))

Actions
DoPumpOn Turn on Pump
PumpManual PLEG StartTimer timerName=PumpTimer
DoPumpOff Turn off Pump