Several steps in one routine - use waiting times via the HOMEPILOT App
You can easily set waiting times between the individual actions in your routines. There are many applications for this. We will describe some ideas here to get you started.
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A routine can have several steps that are processed step by step.
Wait times" can be added between these steps. - A "running" routine can be stopped manually or by another routine.
Good night routine:
You are still lying on the couch in the evening, the movie is over, the TV is already turned off and you are heading to bed. Now you tap on your good night routine in your HOMEPILOT App.
The light in the living room, hallway and bedroom is dimmed to 50 percent.
All other lamps are switched off.
Standby consumers are switched off.
The heating is turned down.
The consumers in the garden are also switched off.
The garage door drive receives a close command, just in case you forget to close the garage door.
Now you set a waiting time, for example 5 minutes.
After that, the light in the living room is switched off completely.
Wait another 5 minutes.
Switch off the light in the hallway.
Switch off the light in the bedroom yourself.
Simulate presence:
Create a routine that you activate when you go on holiday and no one is at home.
For example, start the routine an hour before dusk and switch on the first lights in the house. Then set waiting times and close the first shutters, but only to 70 percent. This way you can still see the light from outside. Further waiting times can be set before more lights are switched on and others are switched off again. Then wait again and close more shutters. You can create up to 10 steps in this way. At the end, you should make sure that all shutters are completely closed and the light is switched off.
There are no limits to your imagination. However, it should still be realistic. 😉
Close the roller shutters from the patio door later:
If you are worried about locking yourself out of the garden with your routines, you should make sure that your roller shutter from the patio door is not closed at the same time as all the other shutters. The best way to do this is to use a Smart door and window contact that disables the routine when the door is opened, but if you don't already have one, you could simply close the patio door shutter a little later.
Create a routine that closes all shutters at dusk, then add a waiting time of 20 minutes and only then close the shutter of the patio door. This way, there is a relatively good chance that you will notice it in the garden when the shutters close. You still have time to break the routine or go inside in time.