Variable Times

Other Devices & Integrations Lighting & Load Control
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Is there a setting in U15 that will vary the time of a schedule. I.E. I have a kitchen light set to turn of at 9:45 PM. For security purposes I would prefer not to have the light shut off at the exact same time every night. This particularly is important if we are not going to be home for several days. I would like to have Vera turn off the light with a 10 minute ± variance of the 9:45 PM time.

Thanks
Ron Bernier

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One alternative way to achieve this is to set the tigger to x minutes after sunset. As sunset varies, it will provide some deviation in when it is triggered.

The alternative is to setup a series of scenes to trigger of different days, durations and adjust their trigger time slightly. You could also combine this with the previous logic to ensure event more deviation in the time events are triggered.

For anyone to notice this, they would need to watch the premises for a numbers of days/weeks to establish there was a pattern.

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or you could use the countdown timer plugin with random timer, like shown here:
http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,9425.msg76877.html#msg76877