Home automation with Animus Heart is easy and fun. Automations is a great tool to automate routines or schedule events. 

Where to find it 

Automations can be created either from the smartphone app or the desktop interface. In the app the Automations icon can be found on the bottom main menu bar, while on the desktop version you have the icon on the left hand side main menu.


The logical process when building automations 

The basic logic behind automations in Animus Heart follows a three step flow:


WHEN

This is the trigger of your automation. Here you can choose a specific schedule to act as a trigger or when a devices does something. For example, when smoke is detected on my smoke sensor, I want this to trigger my automation.

Note: It is also possible to add more than one triggers, with an “OR” function that appears after the first trigger is chosen.

AND
And sets a criteria on the trigger that has to be met. For example, one could schedule a WHEN-trigger for tomorrow at 6AM, and set the criteria, [AND: Time is between 6AM – 7AM]. What this means is that the trigger can only be triggered during 6AM-7AM tomorrow. You can add more than one ‘AND’ criteria.

THEN
Explains what will happen. For example turning your lights on to a certain color, sending notifications to your phone, triggering webhooks and more. Different devices have different actions that can be triggered.


Features available in Automations 

Automations is like a magical toolbox, where new tools/functions becomes available once you have devices that supports those functions. Here are some of the amazing features of Automations: 

  

Examples 





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