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Hello all,
I would like to shut off lights after an extended period of time. I have a trigger set that starts a macro with a "wait" time and it works. For now (just testing) I have it set for 1 min but when I put it into production I would like the time to be 1 hour.
I don't think having a macro wait for 3600 seconds would be a good idea, what other options would I have?
Thanks all,
Scott
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Scott,
There's nothing wrong with having a macro wait for extended periods of time. Its not actually "waiting" per se, but has its complete state "exported" and saved into the database with the time for it to be "awakened" run against the macro wait timer. It works in this way essentially like a timed event (it doesnt consume any resources or memory).
However, if you prefer, you can always use the ph_createtimedevent1 function to create a timed event in the future for when you'd like the lights turned off.
Hope this helps,
Dave.
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Thanks Dave...
Long time, How've you been? It's been a while since I've written any formulas for power home, been emersed in other languages, but I was surprised at how quickly it all came back...
Thanks for a great piece of software ;)
Scott
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