Postpone (Deprecated)

A postpone condition is triggered following a specified delay time after another condition (called source condition) is triggered.

Overview

A postpone condition is triggered following a specified delay time after another condition (called source condition) is triggered.

For example: Suppose there is a motion detector in a corridor and every movement detected triggers a given condition. This condition can for example trigger a command to switch on a light. A PostponeCondition can be set for this given condition with a delay (e.g. 5000) in milliseconds. This PostponeCondition can for example trigger a command to switch off the light the specified delay time after a movement was detected and the light was switched on.

There are two options for a PostponeCondition:

IS_RESET_TIMER is turned on (DEFAULT): In this case if the source condition becomes satisfied again before the delay time has elapsed the timer for triggering the PostponeCondition is reset.
IS_RESET_TIMER is turned off: In this case the timer for triggering the PostponeCondition is not reset no matter how often the source condition becomes satisfied before the delay time has elapsed.

Managing Event Conditions

Via Java API

After creating a condition as described in Managing Conditions you can configure it by using the following methods:

setPostponedType - Sets the PostponeCondition type.
setPostponedId - Sets the PostponeCondition id.
setPostponedDelay - Sets the delay.
setResetTimer - Sets if the timer needs to be reset in case the source condition is triggered again before the delay time has elapsed.

After you configure your condition, call the save method. The Condition Provider will save it in the Config Tree.

Via Config Tree

All conditions are stored in the Config Tree, which allows you to import/export them and to add/edit them by simply creating and modifying XML files.

The following snippet represents an example Postpone condition.

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