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#7316

Hey guys,

I think I’m hitting a bug here :frowning: 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

Is there something i’m doing wrong here…?

#7317

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!

#7318

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#7319

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.

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#7320

That is a great idea.

I have seen virtual switches mentioned around but, honestly I know nothing about it. I start tinkering with that!

Thank you, eiyer, for pointing me in the right direction!

#7321

Check this link… Just make sure you’re logging into the correct IDE shard.

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#7322

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.

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#7323

Below is the Piston which works with the same command as the above Piston.

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#7324

Have you tried splitting the kitsound and wakeup devices into two separate tasks?

#7325

Yes. The first time they were run, these were separate actions. The second time I put them together.

#7326

Hi all,

@ady624
There is one thing I cannot do with CoRE and I can only do with SmartRules.

If movement detected
And One of my Sonos speakers is playing
Turn on this outlet

My problem comes from the speakers states that I have to enter manually, I tried: playing, Playing, play, Play

Any idea?

Thank you in advance…

#7327

Is there a chance the Kitsound or Wake Up is already on? Have you tried disabling command optimization?

#7328

Have you tried saving the Sonos status attribute to a variable and evaluating the value?

#7329

Check the device in IDE, look at the attributes section, what value does status have?

#7330

@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.

#7331

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?

#7332

Anything in live logging? What does the piston do?

#7333

Logging? Did anyone say logging?!

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#7334

I can’t easily check live logging, as its a piston that executes some stuff when my (or my wife’s) phone’s state changes to home.

#7335

Which is where this will come in handy (winking at @eibyer)

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