I am new to this community so please bear with me. I have been a SmartThings user for about three years and have been mostly pleased with the platform, but now I am met with an issue I cannot resolve.
There is somewhere hidden in my system an automation that turns on lights at 5:30AM every day. I have gone through the app (both new and old) and removed all summations and routines I can find, yet the lights still come on.
I have removed a second user so that I am the only user left and again gone through each device and still cannot seem to find the culprit. While I accept that I made some error when I set this routine up, I donât understand why I canât find the issue. I have checked routines, automations, smart apps, and every device I can think of with no luck. The items I am trying to fix are two z-wave plugin devices.
The only thing I have not done is removed the devices and re added them as I have not had lick with this procedure in the past and donât want to buy new devices to correct this issue.
click Devices and then the device in question, then scroll to âIn use byâ.
on the same page, click âList Eventsâ
On the events page it will list the âAPP_COMMANDâ and the name of the app. If it says âDEVICEâ then likely the event that triggers your lights is coming from the device itself or a non-SmartThings app.
You can also try opening the device in the classic app and clicking on the SmartApps tab in the upper right. There you might find any routines, pistons or SmartApps that are associated with that device. Note: this does not show any automations for the new app with that device.
What is the device,eg z-wave,zigbee,hue? you need to take into consideration outside countrol IFTTT, HUE etc. my MiHome devces started doing this and it was because thier hub has save some on/offs as a timed action
If you do find yourself exploring the IDE in your browser, there is always the option of doing so at 5:30 am with the âLive Loggingâ screen open to see what is going on. Not everything gets logged but quite a lot does.
I know this is an older post but I wanted to share what I found.
I had one device that was coming on exactly at sunset. I have two Sunset routines. Both were setup for 15 minutes before Sunset. One I use for everyday (disabled) the other is just at the holidays (enabled). But this one device kept turning on by itself right at Sunset. The logs showed it turning on by itself no routine associated, no one turning it on because we werenât home.
This post gave me several ideas on where to look but they were all turning up with nothing. As I continued my research I saw mention of the Classic App, which I had already deleted. But I figured why not check it. So I downloaded it and logged in sure enough there was a Sunset Routine which I had setup but it was set for exactly Sunset. I deleted the routine from the classic app and it solved the problem.
In most instances nobody notices these routines running because they are doing something you had wanted but in some rare cases you end up in a situation like mine where the routine is firing and now doing something you donât want. Now that I know this worked I am going to delete all the routines from the classic app because they did not transition over.
I hope this will save someone some agony in the future.
