Multiple steps in one routine - use waiting times via the HOMEPILOT App

You can easily set wait times between actions in your routines. There are many applications for this. We will describe some ideas here to get you started.

• A routine can have several steps, which are processed step by step.
  between these steps "waiting times" can be added.
• 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 lights in the living room, hallway and bedroom are dimmed to 50 percent.
All other lamps are switched off.

Standby consumers are switched off.
Heating is turned down.
Consumers in the garden are also turned off.

The garage door drive gets a close command, just in case you forgot to close the garage door.

Now you set a waiting time, for example 5 minutes.

After that the light in the living room will be switched off completely.

Wait another 5 minutes.

Turn off the light in the hallway.

You turn off the light in the bedroom yourself.

Simulate presence:

Create a routine that you activate when you go on vacation and no one is home.
For example, start the routine an hour before dusk and turn on the first lights in the house. Then set waiting times and close the first shutters, but only to 70 percent. This way, light can still be seen from outside. Further waiting times can be set before more lights are turned on and others are turned off. Then wait again and close more shutters. You can create up to 10 steps. 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 remain realistic. 😉

Close roller shutter from patio door later:

If you're worried about locking yourself out of the garden with your routines, make sure your shutter from the patio door doesn't close 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 have that yet, you could just close the patio door shutter a little later.
Create a routine that closes all shutters at dusk, then add a 20 minute waiting period, and then close the shutter on the patio door. This way, there's a relatively good chance that you'll notice it in the garden when the shutters close. You still have time to break the routine or go inside in time.