I've come across a need for a program and can't figure out how to write the IF statement.

We have a long driveway without a view to the garage door and we ALMOST always close it without thinking about it. I have a tilt sensor on a garage door that is obviously closed most of the time.  I already have a timer that notifies me if it is left open, but I would like to know before we leave the house.  I want to run a program on the transition from open to closed but there is no option in that device for "changes and becomes" to qualify the event.

I'm sure there is a way, but I'm having no luck making it happen.

Ultimately, I am going to flash the driveway lights at the street a couple of times so we have verification the door closed.

Eisy - 5.8.0

2 hours ago, rg65 said:

I've come across a need for a program and can't figure out how to write the IF statement.

We have a long driveway without a view to the garage door and we ALMOST always close it without thinking about it. I have a tilt sensor on a garage door that is obviously closed most of the time.  I already have a timer that notifies me if it is left open, but I would like to know before we leave the house.  I want to run a program on the transition from open to closed but there is no option in that device for "changes and becomes" to qualify the event.

I'm sure there is a way, but I'm having no luck making it happen.

Ultimately, I am going to flash the driveway lights at the street a couple of times so we have verification the door closed.

Eisy - 5.8.0

IF device = closed

THEN flash lights

This will run whenever the device transitions to closed.  There is no need to qualify it any more.  It will not run [THEN] again until the devices changes to something else and back to closed.  (It will run ELSE statements whenever it leaves the closed state)  You may want to add a several seconds WAIT before the flash lights depending on the device.  This will de-bounce any open/close back and forth states during the transition that may start your flash routine several times.

Well-I was overthinking it......ALOT.

Thank you!  I will try it!