CoRE - Get peer assistance here with setting up Pistons

Thank you. Got it !

Perfect and no problem.

Did you install it manually or via GitHub? Did you enable OAuth?

Github install, enabled OAuth and tried requesting new keys in the IDE, no luck. :frowning:

Are you trying to access it though the marketplace smartapps tab first or the automations tab?

Got this working and it’s great! just a note to anyone else doing this, case matching matters…:slight_smile: I was using a capital ā€œSā€ inside of my ā€œIfā€ in CoRE , but in Maker I had a lower case ā€œsā€, and it wouldn’t seem to work. As soon as I matched case, viola’ success. duh on me…

just my 2 cents :grin:

Hello, how do I say only once per day, or only run if has not run today?

Also, anyone know why this doesn’t work?

When Sonya returns home I want my office light to flash 3 times so I know to go and meet her, I am capturing current state then turning on (in case its off) then flash 3 times red 80% then set back to captured state (colour hue on/off etc)

need home help with an outside light, i need to turn it on when someone arrives , using custom presence via wifi and normally you can connect about 10 meters away from the house so would be perfect. Any ideas where to start?

Your piston is trying to do all of it at once. Put it all in one action in the order you have it in now.

Currently you have 3 actions that are executing at the same time.

:flushed: man I’m dense. Forgot all about the marketplace step for adding smart apps. All fixed now. Thanks!

Hi Im trying to set lights to go off when there is no motion.
Basically as a test if I set the sensor to motion changed in the last 1 min it works perfect. But when I set to did not change it wont work. Im sure im doing something basic wrong. Any help appreciated.

Try these examples.
http://thingsthataresmart.wiki/index.php?title=CoREsamples#Motion_On_Off

Is it possible to include a CoRE System Variable in a tile of a device?

I can get to the editing process of the device handler, I just need some assistance with the syntax of displaying the variable.

You’d probably need to use a ā€œstandardā€ attribute that accepts a string, for instance ā€œstatusā€. Then use Load attribute from variable…

Garage Door Opener - I want my garage door to automatically close after 5 minutes after I open it. Any suggestions on the best way to do this? Right now I’ve got an ā€œIf-Thenā€ set, but the ā€œThenā€ uses the ā€œTurn Off - delayā€ and it’s not quite working how I’d like it. For one, on the delay, its in ms - what unit is this? Is this really miliseconds? So if I wanted a five minute delay, I’d use 60,000 ms?

Thanks for any suggestions.

Try using ā€˜wait’ in the then.
This can be set to seconds, minutes or hours.

Perfect, thanks!

I have been working on a Piston for a few days and had it working but in the midst of tweaking with it yesterday somehow I broke it. I originally was using a simple DO LOOP but tried to improve it by changing it to a WHILE LOOP.

Does anyone see if there is anything wrong here? It doesn’t work at all anymore and I am getting a java error which I included as well.

You can also try:
If ā€œGarage stays open for 5 minutesā€ Then ā€œCloseā€