At Home Simulator

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Summary[edit | edit source]

Turn lights on and off to simulate the appearance of an occupied home using YOUR normal routine.

Features[edit | edit source]

What does this do? This app is designed to give a lived in look based on your daily routine. This is not a random lights generator. Think about your normal daily routine and then program the lights to duplicate how you would normally move about the house. So if you get up at 6:00am but the sun doesn't come up until 8:00am, be sure to create a simulator that lasts at least 2 hours.

Best to make a different child app for Morning, another for Day and then another for Evening. Or as many as you may need (ie. weekdays vs weekends).

Requirements:

Rule Machine and a Virtual Switch Using the power of Rule Machine, set up a rule to turn the Virtual Switch to control this simulator on. This way you get to use every type of restriction available including offsets, without reinventing the wheel over here.

Features:

  • Select as many devices from each group as needed.
  • Child Apps are activated/deactivated by the Control Switch or when user selected time runs out
  • Set how long each group of lights stays on
  • Each group can have a different pause between devices AND a different pause between groups
  • Special Random section allows additional lights to randomly turn on/off while the simulator is still running.
  • Ability to pause any child app
  • Ability to Enable/Disable child app via a switch
  • Parent/Child App structure
  • Create as many child apps as needed

Where is the Code[edit | edit source]

All of BPTWorld's Apps and Drivers can be found on Github

Release Announcement on Hubitat Forum[edit | edit source]

All updates, feedback and discussions can be found here... At Home Simulator

Screenshots[edit | edit source]