Hi,
I want to have an automation where:
After a press a button (like switchbot remote or similar)
Then
At 11.30pm turn on first switchbot bot,
then
wait 5 seconds (ish) then turn on second switchbot bot.
I’m on iOS, with raspberry pi running hoobs.
I’m thinking a shortcut script would work, but can’t figure out the only start at 11.30pm thing.
Thanks in advance!
Hello @Mr_Courtnage and welcome to the Automators forum
How are you currently set up? Do you already have a working switchbot that triggers an action?
I’m going to make the assumption that you have a few Switchbots which on tap executes a script on several Raspberry Pis.
I would go like this:
- When pressing the button, add a file
button_pressed
on your network so that Raspberry Pis can pick it up later.
- Every day at 11:30 pm, the Raspberry Pis checks if the file
button_pressed
exists. If the file is absent, the script simply exits. But if it exists, the script executes the work, deletes button_pressed
, waits 5 seconds, and passes on the work to the next Raspberry Pi (to be defined how - we’d need more info on your setup to better answer that )
Hope this can give some inspiration to your project.
Cheers
Thanks. I just have a raspberry pi running hoobs.
The SwitchBot bots are on their way, but I don’t have a button yet.
I’m a bit of a noob with using a rasp pi and only have hoobs installed.
I’m thinking there must be an Apple shortcuts way of doing it, maybe from converting HomeKit automation into it?
Thanks again!