lflorack
February 9, 2019, 4:24pm
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@Bry @johnandy @Tom_C @rontalley
As a follow up regarding ST and tracking physical changes versus programmatic device changes that we discussed in this thread, I saw this excellent description of the issues involved from @JDRoberts :
This is technically possible with zwave (“was physical” vs “was digital”), but the problem is that not all manufacturers follow the convention of reporting physical vs digital initiation and, even worse, if the message passes through a repeater the “was physical” information often gets lost, which means the method becomes unreliable. And some manufacturers, such as Evolve, always report every event as “physical.” And some switches don’t send the hub a report at all for physical events.
Put all of this together, and it’s both unreliable and a nightmare to troubleshoot. The issues went on for literally years (3, if I recall correctly), and eventually SmartThings did make the platform change to stop reporting the distinction.
So you could write a custom DTH to try to capture the infor…
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