Force Refresh on Temperature Monitor

While we don’t officially support automations that loop at 15 minute intervals, a common approach is to toggle a variable true/false every X minutes as your timer… then you can use that variable turning true as a trigger to periodically run your rule.

This thread covers the main concepts:

And Justin from SimplySmart also covered the concept in one of his videos:


So a basic rule that flips a variable true/false every 15 minutes might look like:

Then you could use the variable changing to true as a periodic trigger in your other rules. Just keep in mind there might be rate limits on other platforms or actions that your rule takes. :slight_smile: