I’d like to have a (virtual) mode I can turn on the simulate normal behaviour in our home.
For the living room, it’s easy: just turn the lights on at a certain time. But I also want to turn on the lights in hallways at random times. And also (less random, but longer) simulate the study. And maybe another room.
I am not quite sure how to simulate that. What would be the trigger? A random count down? And how to determine the room I am going to switch on? And how do I choose a lifelike routine (so that the study is turned on just once a night for several hours; and not every hour 5 minutes)?!
Does it really have to be that elaborate? Do you think burglars are scoping out your house, noting down your normal routines for weeks on end, so that any change it that routine would indicate you’re not at home?
You could for example use sunset/sundown as a variable and offset them with +“1-100” minutes. If you enter these values Homey will randomly pick a number between 1-100.