Negative delay

FrankM

I am currently using a Smappee energy monitor to turn on my living room lights 30 mins before sunset, this can be done by setting a negative delay for the sunset trigger. I would love to do the same with Homey so I can centralize all automation but I don't think I can (easily). I think it would be really cool to be able to enter a delay (both positive and negative) to some of the trigger cards, like sunset. Obviously a negative delay doesn't make sense for action cards as the card is only activated when the flow is triggered.

aloft

The work-around for this is to do a positive delay of 23.5 hours after sunset with the built-in timers. Assuming Homey doesn't reboot in the mean time, this will trigger approx 30 minutes before sunset the next day. 

In most countries sunset variation per day is just a couple of minutes per day maximum, so while it isn't 30 minutes precisely, 

If you use the CountDown app, the timer will survive a reboot. You set it a timer for 84600 seconds (23.5 hours)

spoelly

would be nice if athom could ad this option to the sun related cards

posthok

I believe you can do time math with better logic

Emile

Yeah that's on the planning! {x} minutes before sunrise/sunset

MatjaLipu

agree, but imho very low priority.

KoenMartens

@MatjaLipu: Also something that could reasonably be coded in a hour or so, unlike bigger projects.

nteuniss

Emile said:

Yeah that's on the planning! {x} minutes before sunrise/sunset

Is this feature available yet?

glijie

sun events in the app store can

nteuniss

@glijie Thanks, that is exactly what I was looking for. Looks like an app that I can build multiple triggers to operate the sunscreen each time the sun moves a couple of degrees.