I’m working on moving into the neighborhood from the WebCoRE neighborhood. I’m going to have some questions along the way…
I am working on recreating my easy Pistons first, while learning.
I have WebCoRE Pistons that do stuff when the temperature of my thermostat is anywhere “inside the range” of 2 numbers. I’m trying to build that but I only see my options being “equal to”, “less than”, “greater than”. How can I build something that will work when the temperature is inside the range of 74* and 77*?
Or if it’s triggered by the temperature changing, you could use context variables to perform the filter. As @Terri mentioned in another thread, this makes the rule execute faster as it uses the triggering value for the comparison rather than making a query to the hub to ask for the current state.
In this example, I set the trigger for greater than 74, so I only restricted the IF Condition to less than 77 since the first part of the condition was inherently covered by the trigger. You could certainly have both sides of the IF Condition explicitly set in the if that makes you feel more comfortable though.
The second example is showing temperature as a trigger. UPPER LEVEL is my upstairs thermostat. So in the second example, the rule is triggered whenever the UPPER LEVEL temperature updates and is greater than 74… then the rule has a condition in it that further restricts the temperature to being less than 77 (which covers the 74-77 range).
