Indigo Domotics

I have a schedule that I want to run every 8 hours, but I want it to run at noon, 8pm and 4am. If I create a "repeat every 8 hours" schedule, it always runs at 8am, 4pm, and midnight. Any way to change that?

It's not an elegant solution, but you could make two copies of the script and have each script execute at the desired time every 24 hours.

There isn't currently a way to specify an offset time. We do have a feature on the request list for this, but probably only 2 or 3 other users have requested it thus far. I would probably create an Action group to hold the actions, then create 3 schedules for the times (each executing the same Action Group).

Another possible solution:

Action group for the actions.
Schedule starting at noon with 3 actions:
1. Execute action group immediately
2. Execute action group with 8 hour delay
3. Execute action group with 16 hour delay

Good suggestion – I like that approach.

Heh. Guitar486's suggestion made me think of an even cuter way to do it. Remember that I want every 8 hours, at 4am, 12pm, and 8pm, but if I do every 8 hours, it comes up at 12am, 8am, and 4pm. So I set it up as a normal schedule for every 8 hours, but put in a 4 hour delay in the action.

Hah - good thinking!

Nice!