@DThompson10, thanks for the reply! I calculated the same values that you shared. What I found is that these values don’t seem to work when using setColor() for RGBW devices (at least Philips Hue); However, these values did work when using setLevel(), setHue(), setSaturation() individually within the same action. @ady624, this may be a bug in setColor().
Not sure if this thread or the main CoRE thread will be the best place for this, but starting here for now. In short, I’m trying to figure out how to trigger a piston based on an activity triggered from the Harmony remote. I’m going for some home theater automation, and I have an activity in Harmony that powers up all the equipment and drops the screen. I’ve got a piston set up to close the drapes, set the lights to a given level, and fire up the RGB LEDs to a set color and level. If I trigger the activity from the ST app, all is well. But if I use the remote, ST doesn’t seem to detect the activity, so the piston never fires. If I open the activity in the app and refresh, it will detect it’s now in an on state and the piston fires, but that only seems to work if I manually refresh it. Is there a piece I’m missing? Or is there just a large delay to before ST realizes the activity is in an “on” state?
You could do something like this.
These are my harmony activities refreshing every five minutes. I’m not sure how often the harmony hub is polled by smart things, but I’d rather have them just refresh every five minutes no matter what.
I know some people that have there harmony activities refreshed not by date and time, but by if motion is sensed. So that every time motion is sensed by a motion sensor, the harmony activities are updated.
Hmm, so refresh timing there could be fun (wouldn’t want the drapes closing 5 minutes later, and not sure setting a sub 1 minute refresh would be smart), but you just gave me a thought. I need to come up with a switch or device that the harmony activity could trigger which would then fire the piston. Oh the thinks I will think.
I use motion in area and temperature changes to refresh pokey devices like my wifi thermostats. It unloads the system when no one is around, and things based on events seem to work better on this platform.
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I can definitely second that. Time events are only so so, but action triggers are nearly flawless.
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Hi,
Can someone please share their piston for enter exit.
I work list what I’m trying to accomplish.
- When I hit routine “Enter/Exit”
- I want to unlock door.
- If it’s dark turn on outside light. (I can do this with rboy smartapp for Schlage Lock but I would prefer to stay away because I’ve been getting a lot of communication issues with the lock.
- Temporarily disable SHM unit door close.
- Activate SHM to Arm Stay for 10 minutes
- If presence recognize I’m home leave arm state.
- If no presence change SHM to Arm away
- If no one home turn off all lights.
- Etc.
I’m sure you guys know where I’m going with this. Thanks in advance !
I get some pretty big delays when using Harmony on activities to trigger events in ST. My resolve was create a virtual switch that I placed in the Harmony on / off routines which is an instantaneous trigger.
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Trying to save a simple core piston but getting please fill out all fields when there are no fields to fill.
If I check and unchecked negate condition I can save it but why is that necessary steps?
Thank you.
I have had this occur at various times and I have found that hitting the back button and then the done button seems to accept the conditions that were set.
Another thing I do is change the ‘is’ to something else and then change it back to is immediately.
Don’t ask me why, but it works.
I may have read somewhere that this is an android issue. Are you using android?
Yup using a Samsung Note 5
I’ve been getting around it by enabling and disabling negate condition. Just wanted to make sure it’s not the CoRe code.
How do you get to that type of view in IDE. So you can see the colorful core rules?
Hey Tolik,
It’s not in the IDE, from the Core App, select the Dashboard, go to the bottom and copy the full URL then paste that into your phones browser, then you can select a Piston, select the camera icon in the upper right and from there save a screen shot
Rick
Question about something that CoRE can assist with (perhaps):
I would like to know when I lose power to my house via ST. I have a 2.0 hub so when I lose power the hub doesn’t necessarily go off, but everything else does.
Anyone have a piston that will do this?
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I think I’m missing a piece of the puzzle on this part. Is it possible to add a virtual switch to an activity?
Edit: Scratch that. Right after I typed this I noticed the thing in the PC app about using the mobile app to add home control to activities… RTFS instead of RTFM in this case.
Not sure what you are looking to do in CoRE, without power. Your router/modem would be off unless you have backup power, thus cutting the communications with the cloud that CoRE runs in. You should also get a push message at the next ST ping that runs every 4-5 minutes saying that it has lost communications.
I run my v2 hub without the batteries since everything else is dead too. I just think it is best to have it reboot at the same time everything else does when the power is restored. 
I have my ST plugged into a UPS, along with all necessary upstream components to get to the internet.
The idea of a power monitor is to alert the home owner they have lost power to the house.
This allows one to intervene, when necessary, for various things. Keep the house from freezing, keep food from spoiling, etc.
I too would like a reliable power monitor with m ST. I thought @bamarayne had a way, but I never explored it much at the time.
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You can do it but it requires a ST V1 motion sensor.
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I saw that late in 2015, tried to find one… could not!!!
I still have the one that came with my hub kit 
well actually that one had issues so they replaced it for me
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