iOS 10.1, iphone6
Still broke on the Android. What is the deal ST
@ady624 just wondering, whatās the difference between āchanges toā and āisā ?? The context I refer to is:
if:
Jimās iPhone
is
present
Compared to:
if:
Jimās iPhone
changes to
present
From my personal point of view and my experiences the past the first one is checking and firing all the time you are present.
The second coding will only be fired at the moment your are arriving at home and the status changes to present.
Hopefully that makes sense to you and helps a little bit.
If the first one is āfiring all the timeā the question really is, does it poll the condition or does it receive a call back when the condition changes to the desired state? If the latter, then its probably the same as āchanges to.ā
Were you able to get ecobee Home/Away working in CoRE ?
thanks
Since October 24, 2016, ST has used 43.6 MB of cell data and 282 MB on Wi-Fi.
7.0MB of cellular data in the last 37 hours. Thatās an average of 4.5MB of celular data per day, though itās early to look at averages, and the only time it should be using cellular is while I am driving to work and back, got wifi otherwiseā¦total cellular usage over last 37 hours is 70.1MB
That seems like a lot to me, and in line with what Iāve seen. Unless using video streaming, all it should be sending is a relatively small amount of data with multiple on/off/level values basically. I wonder if itās not cache all the icons and such as much as it should be? I know they stated a number of updates back that caching was improved, but I still donāt believe itās keeping it all local.
I have a 100Mb allowance a month on cell so I keep the app blocked in my firewall unless I need it. SMS is free to me so itās a better alternative for alerting. Ironically it costs ST to send them! (pretty sure it does at least)
I just edited some pistons without any problems. The last one I had to change seems to be crashed. Now I canāt open it again. If I try to open one of my piston I get the error message āYou are not authorized to perform the requested operationā. I canāt edit or remove the piston. All other pistons are working fine and I can edit or create new ones.
Any ideas what I can do to delete the corrupted piston?
Thanks in advance!
Is it possible to include variables as text in a notification or SMS in order to get richer information delivered? This isnāt quite a complete piston, but for example, Iād like the notification to tell me WHY itās recommending I close my windows:
Yes, you can include variables in your notifications.
Thanks! I must have futzed something up the first time I tried.
So I was wondering if anyone knows if the following exists/possible.
For my chicken coop I had to remove the door sensor because for some reason when the chickens would walk past it, it would register as closed then it throws my whole Piston into a fit because it thinks the door is closed and then it turns on the motor and opens it and yada yada. So instead I added a variable to the piston and it sets it to false in the morning when it opens it and then sets it to true at night when it closes the door.
So here is what I would like to do. Does a virtual door sensor exist?
If it does exist have the virtual door sensor status reflect the variable. Currently its a local variable just for that piston but I can always delete that variable and change it to a global one so it can work across the board. If anyone knows how to do this please let me know. Thanks.
You can create a virtual device in the IDE and for the type use Simulated Contact Sensor, if thatās what youāre asking Or just create a global variable like you said.
I bet this would do exactly what you needā¦
Thank you both @eibyer and @bamarayne I ended up creating the simulated contact sensor and then created an Or-If piston using the global variable. So I have DoorStatusGlobal and the piston says if its True set the contact sensor to close Or If DoorStatusGlobal is false then set it to open. Simulated it and worked like a champ. Thank you both for your help. Iām starting to venture into the advanced section a little more with CORE and with Ask Alexa it will be nice to find out the status of the door to ensure my piston did run. Of course it doesnāt mean the door is actually closed but will be nice.
@ady624 no idea or info how I can delete a corrupted piston? Any debugging mode or the IDE which could help? Any ideas are very appreciated. I could pause the piston using the dashboard but not sure if it is really paused or why I have no access to the piston to delete it.
Thanks
Look in the IDE under Locations, Youāll see Edit on the right hand side, scroll down and find your piston and then click Uninstall. See if that helps.