Ad-Hoc / One Time Scripts

[tthiery]

Describe the feature

Why not allowing users in the dashboards (or also in the entities) to long click something and then have a magic script/automation feature which offers applicable blueprints. E.g. on a a button type the system may offer a option to run something for X mins and then switch off. On a meter type, the system may offer a count feature and on service function a execute in X minutes could be offered. These magic automations may then be run as one-time script using the existing framework or alternatively persisted as automation allowing quick creations of permeant automations.

Use cases

Keeping something on for a while is a everyday problem. In my case, I wanted the sprinkler in the garden to stay on for 20mins. But just this one time.

Current workarounds

• creating automations/scripts (too much effort for this one time)
• trying to remember (failed, once I watered the garden for the while night)

Anything else?

Implementation wise the magic could be as simple as having blueprint inputs flagged as magic-input and matching them with the contextual element and the display them for selection in a popup. The remaining blueprint parameters you could then enter (hopefully just values). And the rest is mostly blueprint functionality already.