Working on Apilio templates and creating new applets for the Community

[Anna]

Hi all, I wanted to respond here to some of you who have already answered the survey, thanks for that!

If you need Weather Underground + Sunrise or Sunset, you don’t need an applet for this combination anymore as time events and time frames are now native in Apilio. You don’t need to setup a variable either: these are created as conditions straight away: For example, if you wanted a condition to make sure your logic only runs during night time, this is what you would setup in Apilio to create this time frame that starts at sunset and finishes at sunrise:

If you are using a variable that is set to true at a specific time of the day (this is a time event, it only happens once a day), for example, a"late-night" variable that is set to true every day at 22:45, you can also set this up in Apilio and you don’t need a variable anymore. You’ll also be able to use this as your trigger, without any other applets:

Learn more about Apilio’s native time conditions and triggers:

Here’s the full article if you need more information:

How to setup and use time conditions

In Apilio, you can setup time conditions to control when your actions are allowed to run. Conditions are the rules in your Logicblocks (your routines). Time Conditions are particularly handy as they allow you to reliably schedule automated activities at home or at work. Let’s see how you can set these Conditions up: What’s a Time Condition? Time Conditions relate to times of the day, the week, the month or the year, so they restrict the times when a specific logic can be run. Time events an…

Let me know if you have any questions, thanks!