Connected Zigbee Bulbs connection checks

[JDRoberts]

@jlevatino1122

• There is not an extremely long connection time to connect to wifi. My current setup checks the router every 15 seconds which is likely faster than any polling system would take.

Since August 2016, SmartThings queries the hue bridge for the status of connected devices every five seconds.

You might also want to look at the work that went into the “canary bulb” smart app which is used to reset all the smart bulbs in a house if the power has gone off and come back on. It works with regular zigbee bulbs. So different purpose, but I believe a similar methodology.

[OBSOLETE] SmartBulb Power Outage handler

I was tired of coming home or waking up to find all my smart bulbs turned on due to a power outage. This app was inspired by the concept of a “Canary” bulb from @JDRoberts ( see Power Outage and Zigbee Bulbs) Basically you set up a smart bulb that you never use. If this bulb is on, then the app turns it off and any bulbs that were off before the power outage occurred. There is a lot of discussion on other posts about whether you should be changing the states of bulbs because you don’t know if anyone intended to change the states of the light while the power was out or after the power came back on and before the ST hub reconnects to the internet. This option works for my usage, hopefully it works for yours. The code: definition( name: "Smarter Bulbs", namespace: "nsweet68", author…