Trigger another rule within a rule

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Don’t know if it is already possible, at least I couldn’t find it documented anywhere.

In the then section I would like to be able to trigger a rule.

For example I have a “scene” rule which sets my living room lights for the evening and I want to trigger it from different switches/scenarios.

When it is after 18:00 and Bewegunsmelder Wohnzimmer is present
Then trigger Szene Wohnzimmer Abend...

To my understanding this is not possible, but it would be a great feature!

I solved this by creating a ButtonsDevice device with a button for each rule I would like to trigger, like so:

{
  "id": "triggers",
  "name": "Triggers",
  "class": "ButtonsDevice",
  "buttons": [
    {
      "id": "trigger-all-lights-off",
      "text": "All Lights Off"
    },
    {
      "id": "trigger-all-devices-off",
      "text": "All Devices Off"
    }
  ]
},

Then for each button i created a rule, like so:

{
  "id": "switch-all-lights-off",
  "name": "Switch All Lights Off",
  "rule": "if trigger-all-lights-off is pressed then switch livingroom-bay off and switch livingroom-table off and switch kitchen-table off and switch kitchen-counter off",
  "active": true,
  "logging": true
},

Then from an other rule I press the button, which in turn triggers the above trigger. Like so:

{
  "id": "mood-sleep",
  "name": "Sleep",
  "rule": "if mood-sleep is turned on then press trigger-all-lights-off",
  "active": true,
  "logging": true
},

Almost exactly my workaround at the moment but it is a pain. At least with 0.9 you can create the buttons quite quickly via the web front-end

You can use the api to trigger rules. But actually i cannot give a detailed example now. There have been threads on the forum some time ago about this ad far as I can remember.

My workaround at the moment is to use a variable. The rule fires when the variable is set to 1, for example, and to 0 after executing. When another rule wants to fire it, it sets the variable to 1.