Monthly timer

[Likemike24]

Hello,

I am looking for a solution to the following problem.

Tasmota should always switch on a socket on the first Saturday of a month at 10 am. This should then remain active for 1 hour and then switch off again.

Is it possible to implement this with rules and timers?

[sfromis]

You could create a timer for every saturday, which could then create an event with %timestamp% as parameter, giving you something like 2024-05-06T14:59:09. Then you could create 7 triggers matching on string contains $| to check if the value contains strings like -01T up to -07T to catch the first saturday. Yes, that's a bit of mess, but rules does have limited flexibility.

For switching off again after 1 hour, the command TimedPower 3600000,on will switch on "now", and off again after 1 hour (the time value is in milliseconds).

If using ESP32, you could have a single cron to catch the first saturday every month, at 10:00. That would not have to be on the plug itself, could be on another device with ESP32.

[Likemike24]

I´m sorry, but I´m really bad at programming. Could you give me a hint how to start with some code please? The device uses a ESP8266 if I´m correct.

[sfromis]

It is no problem if you are bad at programming, as rules are pretty different from a programming language. Still a learning curve, and many examples on https://tasmota.github.io/docs/Rules/

[Likemike24]

Ok, thank you for pointing out. I´ll try to solve the task on my own.

[Likemike24]

Solved it:
I´m using a NOUS A1T. Since this device seems to not support the TimedPower parameter I had to use PulseTime for turning off the plug after 1 Minute.

For 60 seconds timed power off enter in console (Offset 100 + 60 seconds = 60 seconds):
PulseTime 160

The set a repeating timer for every saturday via GUI and set Action RULE (in this case I´m using Timer1.
Then execute the following code after Timer1 expires to check current date and power on if date fits the first 7 days of the week:
Rule1 on clock#Timer=1 do backlog event checkdate=%timestamp% endon on event#checkdate$|-01T do Power1 1 endon on event#checkdate$|-02T do Power1 1 endon on event#checkdate$|-03T do Power1 1 endon on event#checkdate$|-04T do Power1 1 endon on event#checkdate$|-05T do Power1 1 endon on event#checkdate$|-06T do Power1 1 endon on event#checkdate$|-07T do Power1 1 endon

[sfromis]

Great, that was what I meant. 😄

When it comes to TimedPower, that is a pretty new command, meaning that it is only available with latest Tasmota version, also on a Nous device.

[Likemike24]

Thank you for the information and pointing me in the right direction!