I think I’m hitting a bug here Here’s what I’m trying to do:
When I press a button, I was to set a variable to $now and trigger a follow up piston to set a flag after 120 minutes. Basically, I want to set a flag 2h past the button pressed.
I have a IF rule
if (button is pressed)
when true do
set variable pressedButtonTime = $now
follow up same piston
or
if (pressedButtonTime > 120) <---------- This condition seems to blow up
when true do
set variable aNewFlag = true
When I try to set the DateTime condition, i’m getting a Error - bad state. Unable to complete page configuration and when I try to go back, I just get You are not authorized to perform the requested operation.
Here’s how I’m trying to set it up:
Capability -> Date & Time
Comparaison: is after
value: time of variable
variable: pressedButtonTime -> As soon as I click it, i’m getting a white screen and if I click Done, i’m getting the Error - bad state. Unable to complete page configuration
Hi all!
I need a little assistance with a sequence for my motion lights with a button to disable. This is in my living room and when we are watching a movie, we don’t want the lights coming on. My goal for the button is to have the ability to disable motion by holding and enable motion by pressing OR after 2 hours. I got everything how I want except for the 2 hour timeout. I cant figure it out without creating another piston… I have only had the ST hub for about 2 weeks so I am a bit of a newb! Trying to keep things clean and efficient.
I am using Lutron Caseta dimmers, Iris Motion sensor, and the Iris Smart button.
For motion control, I have the following piston: IF
LivingRm Light is Off
and
LivingRm Motion changes to Active
and
Time is between sunset and sunrise then
*if mode is home or night, set LivingRm level to 6% Or-If
LivingRm level is 6%
and
LivingRm Motion stays inactive for 5 minutes Then
Turn off LivingRm light
To disable the motion piston, I have this piston: If
Iris smart button is held Then
Pause the Motion piston
Turn off LivingRm light or-if
button is pressed then
Resume motion piston
Do I have to make another piston to resume after two hours? Much appreciated!
My suggestion would be just to create a virtual switch that you can call “movie time”. You can turn it on/off via alexa, the iris button or manually via the ST app. Add that virtual switch as a condition in your piston. If ON, then disable your light being turned on by motion.
I am having a strange issue with one of my CoRE pistons. Can someone help me troubleshoot?
I have the below Piston and everything except the very first command works. “Turn On Kitsound” doesn’t work. I am not sure why this one is being skipped. It is a speaker controlled by a virtual switch in smartthings. I don’t see the on command sent to the switch under the history. I only tried this twice, but it failed both times. I have exactly the same command in another Piston which works fine. Also manually pressing on and off works fine.
@eibyer The device is definitely off when the on command was issued. The device is mapped in smartthings as a virtual switch. The switch is in off state and I don’t see anything in the history to turn it on.
This works fine with one of the pistons, but not with one of them. Very strange.
At some point, I turned on an alert for when a certain piston ran and I can’t figure out how to turn it off. It’s not a notification inside the piston itself that I can see. What am I missing?
Here’s what I’m trying to do:
