Create, run and change routines

Create a routine

1. Open Settings, choose Routines, and then choose New routine. On the web, you can also start from a template with Use this. The New routine control is labeled New routine. [New routine, plus]New routine
2. Enter a name for the routine and choose a home. Keep the home correct if you manage more than one home.
3. In When, add one or more triggers. Available triggers include a spoken phrase, a schedule, sunrise or sunset, A device changes, someone comes or goes, and Motion detected when a camera or sensor reports motion.
4. In Only if, add any conditions you want. Available conditions include a time range, specific days, after dark or daylight, A device is in a state, and someone home or nobody.
5. In Do, add the steps the routine should take. You can choose a room or the whole house, One device, Play music on Sonos, Set Home Security, Say something, Wait, Notify, or Run a routine.
6. Set the step order carefully. The routine runs actions in order, and a later problem does not mean earlier actions were undone. The order matters for every step that depends on a previous step.
7. Choose Save when you are finished. The Save control is labeled Save. [Save, check]Save

Sunrise and sunset use your home's saved address and timezone. If the home does not have a usable address, sun-based triggers and conditions cannot follow the sun correctly.

A routine needs a name and at least one step before you can save it.

Home Security is a separate step type inside routines. Saving or enabling a routine does not give automatic Home Security approval.

Choose triggers, conditions, and steps

• When can contain more than one trigger. Any one of them can start the routine.
• Only if can contain more than one condition. All of them must hold together.
• A schedule can run every day, or only on selected days.
• A time condition can cover any range, including overnight.
• A room or house action affects supported devices in that room or scope.
• A Notify step sends a household notification.
• A Run a routine step can run another routine, but not the same one you are editing.

If you use device-based triggers or conditions, choose only from the supported readings shown for that device. If you use One device in Do, choose from the controls that device currently supports.

For Say something, you can choose one room, every room with a speaker, or selected rooms when Some rooms is available. You can also set an optional message volume, or leave it empty to use each room's configured message volume.

Coffee ready announcements

If a step turns a coffee machine on, extra options appear under that step. When the coffee is ready appears beneath that power-on step.

1. Under the coffee machine power-on step, review When the coffee is ready.
2. Leave the default setting to announce in the machine's room, or choose Choose announcement rooms to pick one or more speaker rooms in this home. You can also choose Notify my phone for a phone notification instead.
3. If you want later steps to stay behind the coffee result, turn on Wait until ready before continuing.
4. Save the routine after you finish these options. The Save control is labeled Save. [Save, check]Save

Scheduled, voice, and manual routine runs use the saved delivery choice. If you chose announcement delivery, they also use the selected rooms for the coffee-ready announcement. Quiet hours still apply in each selected room.

Phone delivery depends on your phone's notification permissions and push connection.

Wait until ready before continuing keeps later steps behind confirmed power on, the machine reaching READY, and the selected delivery: completed speech for an announcement or submission of the phone notification. Submission is not proof the phone displayed it. Without this explicit wait, other independent actions continue while readiness is checked.

Run a routine now

1. Open Routines.
2. Find the routine you want to use.
3. Choose Run now. The Run now control is labeled Run now. [Run now, play]Run now

Run now works even when a routine has no triggers. On the web, Run now deliberately ignores the routine's conditions, so check what the routine will do before you use it.

Turning a routine Off stops its automatic triggers, but manual Run now still works.

Check what happened after a run

Open a routine's details to review What it does and the Last run section. Read the run details instead of assuming a requested change always completed.

• You can review When, Only if, and Do in the saved routine.
• Last run shows when it started and what caused it.
• Step results show what happened for each step.
• If a run was skipped, the routine shows why.

The assigned hub owns routine execution for schedules, local triggers, and routine runs. The platform stores the routine, records results, and can pass cloud-service actions to their provider, but it does not rerun the whole routine as a fallback.

A missing or stale reading is not treated as confirmation. If a device change was accepted but not confirmed, open the run details and check which step needs attention.

For speech, a room announcement can be reported as playback unconfirmed when delivery or confirmation was ambiguous. This is not proof that nobody heard it.

Earlier confirmed actions stay in place even if a later action fails. For motors and curtains, accepted does not mean stopped in the requested position.

For Sonos announcements, ALYT restores earlier playback and volume after the announcement when the provider confirms those operations.

To warm up a device before a morning routine, create a separate timed routine to switch it on at the earlier time. A long Wait step keeps the hub busy. If you start a second routine by voice or by hand while one is running, its request waits for up to ten minutes; check the run history for its result or a clear failure reason.

How ALYT handles device state during a run

When a routine runs, a device that has freshly confirmed the requested state can be left alone. If a light is already on and only brightness or warmth must change, ALYT changes that setting directly.

Plain device settings around waits, speech, and other dependency steps are interpreted as a final light state. If you want an intentional intermediate state, add a separate Wait step.

If a light command is not confirmed, its earlier reading is not trusted to skip the next action. A curtain connection that never opened may be tried once more, but an already sent movement is not retried automatically.

Change, disable, or delete a routine

1. Open Routines and choose the routine you want to change.
2. Choose Edit, make your changes, and then choose Save. The Save control is labeled Save. [Save, check]Save
3. To stop automatic triggers without removing the routine, switch it Off.
4. To remove it completely, use Delete and confirm the removal.

Home Security approval

A routine can include Home Security steps, but automatic security changes need separate approval from the person who owns the home.

Running a routine by hand uses the current household authority. Scheduled, sensor, and voice-triggered security changes need separate approval for the complete saved routine, including nested routine changes in order.

If the routine or its approval changes, the approval must be reviewed again. Turning Home Security OFF disarms the whole home.

On phone, the review flow is separate from Save. Approve or Approve the change records the review you are looking at, and Yes, allow it confirms that same review. Not now cancels the review.

If the review changes while you are reading it, read it again before allowing it.

Troubleshooting

Create, run and change routines

You can add up to 255 authored steps to one routine. ALYT checks the full expanded actions and the complete configuration against your home hub before saving. If they do not fit, the edit is refused and your saved routine stays unchanged. Keep intentional waits and action order.

For a room or whole-home Lights or Switches step, choose Leave unchanged and select each device that should keep its current settings. Its name appears in the saved step, and this does not switch it off and back on. To change an existing selection, remove and re-add that step with the intended selection, then Save. If an older app cannot preserve the selection, update it and reload rather than overwriting the routine. A save never runs the routine.

When a routine needs checking

Your other independent Zigbee actions continue while the hub checks status in the background. Final run details can arrive later. If a routine needs checking, open its run details and read the reason, then check the device before trying again. Missing confirmation does not necessarily mean it failed to act. The hub checks missing readings without repeating the physical command, while keeping your deliberate waits and safety checks.

If a lock reports a jam

If a lock reports a jam, only that lock step ends; the rest can continue. The hub will not retry its motor, and later routine requests leave it alone until the lock reports that the jam has cleared. A battery update or time passing cannot clear it. The quiet history note does not prove the door is locked. Check the door safely and clear any obstruction before deliberate further action. After a reboot, if the lock state is unknown, the hub reads its status before sending a motor command. If there is no reply, no motor command is sent. Independent actions on other devices continue.