How can I easily simulate that somebody is home? I want to switch on different lights randomly and for a random minimum time period during the night. The Homey Athom blog is referring to ‘home presence simulation’, but there is no explanation how to do this.

You can create a flow that is triggered lest say every 10 minutes. And then only at night and continue with a chance of 20% and then turn on the lights. The chance you can do with a logic element in the flow.

[image] JeeS: continue with a chance of 20% Is this really chance or should this be Change? How does that work? In the Dutch language it looks like this: [17-004]

[image] JPe4619: Is this really chance Yep. That’s what’s making it random.

Example: [image] Flows from hour to hour. Why not? How to be able to do it? Flows @Steve_Nye Here’s an example with a timer which only runs when needed. It looks perhaps a little complicated because it has some virtual devices (Device Capabilities). I prefer…

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