Action: Pause - no reset

[Moebius]

Hi,
i have a simple flow with the trigger "display off" followed by a pause action and then I wanI to set the device to flight mode.

Now I noticed that the pause timer keeps running if the trigger fires again. From my understanding the pause should restart from the beginning.

Is there a way to achieve that now, or is it a feature request? (checkbox reset if called again)

Thanks

[MURTUMA]

There's no such action as "pause". Do you mean sleep action?

The sleep action stops the flow for the predefined time and then proceeds to the next action/condition. If there's a direct connection to sleep action(ANY action really) from the trigger, of course it executes after trigger.

If I completely misunderstood your problem, please post your flow here so we can take a look.

[Moebius]

yes, in the German version pause is sleep.

The problem: if the trigger fires again, before the sleep time is up, the timer is not reset.Instead a new timer is created.

[MURTUMA]

Please, share your flow and explain what you're trying to achieve? From your explanation in the first post I can't imagine why would you need a sleep action there. I'll take a look if I can solve this by changing your flow.

[Moebius]

This is the flow:
http://automagic4android.com/flow.php?i ... 5dda049d03

Goal: enter flightmode after 15 minutes display off

[MURTUMA]

http://automagic4android.com/flow.php?i ... 7351b053fb

Here's two flows that solves your problem. The first flow sets the timer to 15 minutes and enables the second flow which in turn executes when the timer expires and then disables itself.

I assume you have a flow to disable the airplane mode when you turn the screen on? You should put there an action to disable the second flow, so it doesn't turn airplane mode on when you're using your phone.

Using sleep action for such long times as 15 min is not recommended.

[Moebius]

Thanks Murtuma for your sample,
but i hoped that this could be done with only one flow.

Also i would assume, that the sleep command internally uses the same timer function as "timer".
Where is the difference?
Why is sleep not recommended? (In the sample it even sleeps 2h15m and offers "d" for days to sleep!)