hmm, not sure what you mean? speakers are not playing at all? are you testing with the test button or by changing the time happens at condition?
in the first piston does pausing the pistons need to be inside the while loop?
in the second piston have you checked what happens when presence changes while the color rotation and fade is already going on?
been testing by changing the time just testing it again with no adjustments to be sure but so far no, not at all.
Edit: just realized that for some reason the timer is a hour out? so even though the variable says 21:46 it said it was a hour before so i had to set timer to 22:46 to get it to trigger. It has just triggered and the speaker turned on
You tell me, this is far to complicated for my little brain at the moment 
I was just trying to strip yours down to just the lights without the global boolean in, but may have accidentally moved something i shouldnāt have?
No will need to test that iām hoping its essentially the same as setting the boolean to true?
could you please share the value of these variables with the piston running and trace on?
you should be able to leave the pause piston outside the while loop if its intended to turn off those other pistons for the entire time that first piston is running.
depends on if the only when gets reevaluated every time. if not, then no it will not be the same.
I just put a edit in it seemed to be something to do with the timer its running 1 hour fast in webcore, its probably the same reason why the piston starts running about a hour and half before sunset.
@bangali its working fine now the speaker is stopping and starting like it should 
cool. i am not going to add that in to main, because size is a concern and some users may have trouble saving it.
might be simpler to simply pause this piston if home changes to away or something like that outside of this piston. 
No thats fine, thats why im putting it on here then if someone else has the same reason they can tweak it 
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Would that not stop it starting again, when we come home though?
I see what you mean now, no it doesnāt but i didnāt know where else to put it.
this should be better place for it?
if you notice anything out of place let me know else ill let it run and see if it works well tomorow 
and thanks for this awesome piston @bangali !
Edit: this seems to be working well, but i get lot of these in the logs?
+7369ms āPiston waited at a semaphore for 7111ms
well only if you just did that.
heres what i do:
i have a piston that handles people leaving, in this piston i pause any pistons i dont want to run while either someone is away or everyone is away. so:
if X presence sensor changes to not present
pause piston X
end if
if Y presence sensor changes to not present
pause piston Y1
pause piston Y2
end if
if X and Y presence sensor are not present
pause home piston 1
pause home piston 2
end if
then there is another piston that handles people arriving, in this piston i resume any pistons i do want to run while either someone is home or everyone is home.
if X presence sensor changes to present
resume piston X
end if
if Y presence sensor changes to present
resume piston Y1
resume piston Y2
end if
if X and Y presence sensor are present
resume home piston 1
resume home piston 2
end if
helps both keep this all in one place and prevents having to check for this stuff in every related piston.
Wouldnāt know where to.start or that! But I donāt have anything particular yet that only runs if a particular person bis home, may be something I do in the future at the moment this is what I have.
There is a bug with the time my wake up routine just fired a hour early aswell @webCoRE_Minions has anyone else noticed this?
Edit: I managed to fix this buy doing a clean up and re cash then pausing and resuming all my pistonās.
Edit : DLS happen this weekend the time on the variable list was correct but the pistons stayed out of sync untill today.
great job again @bangali iām gonna give the sounds a miss for now though. Iāve modded the previous version to give holiday name in the status and pause my normal outside lighting piston then resume @2335 and its going āLIVEā tonight. cheers for your work on this.
@borristhecat i had the same issue with my pistons this weekend strangely only for starting them. they all ended at the correct time so my test lights for this were set to start at 1025 am til 1035 am as of Saturday morning they started at 0925 until 1035. how do i do a clean up and recache?
EDIT: just found the other thread about this. will see how it goes now i have reconfigured the piston.
@AprillaEdd, funny you mentioned the piston kicked off an hour earlier. Mine did too. Iām based in Ireland and GMT clocks went back an hour on Saturday night at 2 am. Iāve a funny feeling thatās the reason
thank you. just set the soundEnabled to false in the define section and it should skip all the sound stuff. if i missed anything just let me know, will fix.
Hi @bangali when you have the @pauseHLCRaFp set to true the speakers stop and the lights stop changing but if you turn them off they turn back on again after a few seconds.
is this whats happening?
is that what is happening? if yes, after they come back on do the colors start changing again?
when @pauseHLCRaFp is true it only waits within this repeat do ā¦ end repeat loop without touching any devices. so a little surprised that would happen, but will check if you can confirm the command that turned on the lights was sent from the piston. should be able to see that in the Recently tab for any of the light devices.
yes this is what is happening, but when they come back on they just come on at the colour they were and dont change. So if i then manually change the colour then turn them off they come back on at that colour.
yes just looked and the on command is constantly being sent from the piston every few seconds.
what command is it sending, on or set level? can you put the piston in trace and confirm 2 things:
