Homekit automation rules
Is there a way to turn off automated lights more than 60 minutes later? I would like to turn on a porch light at sunset, and have it go off at 11:00 pm or sunrise.
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Is there a way to turn off automated lights more than 60 minutes later? I would like to turn on a porch light at sunset, and have it go off at 11:00 pm or sunrise.
When creating automations that activate relative to sunrise/sunset, 60 minutes is the max.
Best practice would be to create one automation to turn your porch light ON at sunset, and another separate automation to turn the porch light OFF at sunrise, or 11:00pm, whichever one you decide.
If unfamiliar with creating automations, I wrote the steps out quick:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250268476
Hope that helps.
When creating automations that activate relative to sunrise/sunset, 60 minutes is the max.
Best practice would be to create one automation to turn your porch light ON at sunset, and another separate automation to turn the porch light OFF at sunrise, or 11:00pm, whichever one you decide.
If unfamiliar with creating automations, I wrote the steps out quick:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250268476
Hope that helps.
Here’s the info for creating scenes
I had already read the apple documentation and found it to not be helpful on what should be a simple, straightforward task.
However, I think I finally figured it out by playing with the rules on my Mac instead of on iOS. The answer appears to be that you need to create a whole separate rule to turn off things at a specific time.
This is excrutiatingly un-intuitive for Apple for two reasons: the pick list that allows you to turn something off up to 60 minutes later in the 'turn on' rule misleads you into thinking that is the only place to do it, and second, the action to turn something off is obscure at best.
I’ve not used any automation yet, to know how it’s set up.
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Homekit automation rules