Scheduling - How to?

knowz
knowz
in SecuritySpy

Greetings,

The solution may be staring me in the face. If it is I am staring through it. My hope is to arm a camera action at a specific time each night (i.e. 22:00) and have the camera action disarm at sunrise. I have explored using multiple schedules to accomplish my goal but I am coming up blank. At the moment the solution appears to be my writing an Applescript. Thoughts?

Thank You.

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  • Ben
    Ben

    Sorry but there is no built-in way to do exactly this. You can do either:

    1. Set your own custom schedule to arm/disarm Actions at specific set times of the day/week (configured at Settings > Scheduling).
    2. Use the built-in "Armed Sunset To Sunrise" schedule, but in this case both the arming time and the disarming time will change automatically.

    There is no built-in way to arm at a specific time, and then disarm at sunrise. Perhaps AppleScript is the best way to achieve this, as follows:

    Script 1 - schedule to run at 10pm every day:

    tell application "SecuritySpy" to set schedule "Armed 24/7" camera name "Cam" mode Actions

    Script 2 - schedule to run at 2am every day:

    tell application "SecuritySpy" to set schedule "Armed Sunset To Sunrise" camera name "Cam" mode Actions

    Use Lingon to schedule each script.

  • knowz
    knowz
    edited September 2025

    Hello Ben,

    Thanks for confirming that there was no built-way to accomplish this and the suggestions on how to accomplish my goal. I already make use of Lingon. It's a handy and hearty app. Thanks again.

    cjs

  • knowz
    knowz

    My Solution: I use Security Spy in consort with a Hubitat Elevation server. I used its built-in sunset/sunrise feature to send a GET command to sSpy to arm/disarm camera action.

  • Ben
    Ben

    Great to hear that, sounds like a good solution.

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