Timer to turn off a light after a certain time on

[gagnon.sylvain]

Hi,

I have a WiFi smart switch enrolled into SmartLife and wanted the switch (light) to cut its power when it's been on for let's say 30 minutes. So what I did was create a "Smart" (in SmartLife) where when that specific light is turned on, it starts an 'action' called delay for 30 minutes then another action that turns off that specific switch (ie, light). This works well when the light is turned on and left on. After 30 minutes, it will turn off as intended. But trouble arises when the light is manually turned off within that 30 minutes counter. The counter keeps counting and if the light is turned back on with let's say 5 minutes left in the counter, the light will turn off after those 5 minutes instead of a new 30 minutes like I would have liked so I can't use the SmartLife app

So I'm trying something similar using Stringify/IFTTT. I've set a Flow in Stringify like this:

IFTTT1 -> Delay -> IFTTT2

IFTTT1 is triggered by a Smart Life Light On event
IFTTT2 triggers a Smart Life Light Off action.

But I'm afraid this will give the same result Is there a way to reset the Delay back to 30 minutes if the light is turned off then back on before the first 30 minutes delay expires?

Thanks all.

[gagnon.sylvain]

Hunting for an answer, I think what is described in this post could work for me as well:

Porch Lights Flow With Timer Help [SOLVED]

But it's already late enough so I'll try it tomorrow. If someone has a better idea, I'm all ears

[gagnon.sylvain]

Gave it a try and it works. Pain in the butt to set up for multiple lights but at least it worked... Too bad IFTTT takes so long to react to a Smart Life event though,,,

[gagnon.sylvain]

Here's my setup in order of execution:

[Gary51]

When I posted that flow in the original post last October, it was for someone who wanted a light to go off in 5 minutes.

However, if you use a 1 minute loop for too long, that may run into Stringify's limit and they will stop your flow. To avoid that, you might want to use a 5 minute timer, and decrement the variable by 5 each time it loops. The the light will turn off between 30 and 35 minutes after the last time the light was turned on.

[gagnon.sylvain]

Cool, thanks. I'll update it and thank you for the Flows