CoRE - Get peer assistance here with setting up Pistons

[rwcrowe]

General question to all and @ady624

What is the max or how many pistons can run at the same time ? Ideally I was trying to do 1 piston per room, but until my condition FOO is up to par, I will probably end up with more than 1 per room.

[Hal9000 (Daisy Daisy give me your answer do)]

Thanks Bobbles.

Can I ask how you copied the URL from sonos when playing a tunein station? Oh and by the way, your image capture appears to chop the end off the URL. Does it just end with .m3 or is there more?

[robinogi (Robin)]

Can anyone tell me how to use the “wait” command with location based actions? I want to “activate lifx scene 1”, wait 30 seconds " activate lifx scene 2" and set location mode to “night”. I can’t seem to get this to work, no matter how I construct it. I’ve successfully created a bunch of different pistons, but this part is escaping me. Thanks!

[Lisa_262]

Sorry for the late response in setting up scenes (the holidays, you know)…

I simply use a virtual switch for the scene. I figured out each bulb’s color with guidance from the links below, then activate the group with the switch.

CoRE - Get peer assistance here with setting up Pistons

Go to your IDE page and look at the device’s properties. It will list the current: (my settings) • switch: on • level: 100 • hue: 19 • saturation: 89 • color: #D0EF0F • colorTemperature: 2012

CoRE - Get peer assistance here with setting up Pistons

Just to clarify a few things. The hue in ST is an unnatural percent, 0-100. The hue in the real world is an angle, 0-360 degrees. CoRE is expecting degrees, so that you can pick numbers from your favorite rgb>hsl converter. What you see in the logs there may actually be %, not °. If the color does not match, try applying a x3.6 factor to it. I asked at some point and the general choice was to use degrees, rather than %.

[calansvc (Craig)]

Make sure the “Wait” statement is in the same action as whatever you want the delay on. If you have multiple actions, they will all execute simultaneously (depending on system latency of course).

When setting up a “wait” between things that are happening, you want multiple TASKS in one action… not multiple ACTIONS.

[ViggS]

@eibyer

Oauth

Thank you, I will look into that now. I also found out how to get to the logs and it said the issue was with line 8639. I took a look and it had something to do with timezone so I set my location in the SmartThings app and then I was able to save the Piston. Is there a way to not have to set you location in the app?

Thank you!

[twodaend (Ed)]

I have a late arrival piston that captures the state of various lights before turning them on and after a set time restores them to their previous state. However, I cannot figure out how to do the same with the SHM. I want to disarm SHM, but first I want to know what the initial state was so that it can rearm if necessary, however I cannot figure out how to do so.

[Sourcelab]

How could I set this piston up to “Nag” with Push notifications every N minutes?

I have the piston below set up to send a push notification when the laundry has completed, but I’d like to continue to notify until another state has changed (someone gets the laundry!).

I tried using a global “laundryDone” variable and getting even more fancy in another piston but found there’s very few options for comparison of a variable. I’ve heard others on this forum talk about using CoRE in this way, so presumably it is not impossible?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[eibyer]

You can use the Follow up with piston task and use the same piston name.

I have something similar to yours except mine switches a virtual switch. If the virtual switch gets turned off then the nagging stops. I used a switch since wife and I can ask Alexa to do it.

[robinogi (Robin)]

That’s perfect! Works great this way. Thanks, Craig!

[calansvc (Craig)]

That has to be the most common learning hurdle with CoRE. I fought with it until I figured out you could have multiple tasks in one action, as I’m sure most people have.

[eibyer]

I don’t use SHM and have not played with it at all in CoRE. What about creating a piston that keeps tab on SHM on/off status and have it set a global variable that you can monitor in your piston/s.

[calansvc (Craig)]

@ady624

Bug?

CoRE - Get peer assistance here with setting up Pistons

I’ve been using “Save state/attribute to variable” and “load state/attribute from variable” to save light info before doing something and then restoring them. I have now discovered Capture/retrieve state to local or global store. What are the advantages and disadvantages to using these different methods? FYI - I tried the Capture and retrieve state to local store on two Hue white ambience bulbs, and it didn’t work. (trying to save level and color temp). Saving/retrieving state attributes to a local variable works fine. This doesn’t work: [image] … but this does: [image] What am I missing? @ady624 any ideas?

[MichaelC]

I am new in Core.
I have a simple scenario, but i dont know to configure it.
When Routine … runs
then a switch turn on vor 1600ms and than turn off the switch.

Thats everything
Can anybody help me please with the correct piston?

[2l82try1 (Jay)]

Use a basic Piston.
IF - Routine xxx was executed
THEN - Using xxx switch, turn on, wait 1600ms, turn off

[ViggS]

I would like to have Alexa say something after a piston is fired, is it possible to use Simon Says in CoRE?

Thought I saw a way to do this while creating another piston but can’t seem to find it now.

Thanks you!

[zerogravity]

Hello everyone
New to CoRE and digging it so far.
Can someone help with this basic piston that I cant wrap my head around?

I want to control (2) Phillips hue light bulbs at the same time, so when I change one, the other one changes to same hue, and level.

Thoughts?

[rontalley]

I am new to using variables but I thought this would work. Instead of it giving me the name of the specific device name, it gives me the string name such as a bunch of letters and numbers…I’ve used this on other pistons and it works correctly.

What could be the problem?

[eibyer]

Have you checked out the Trend Setter app? It might work better for your case. It can be done in CoRE but there will be a noticeable delay.

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[eibyer]

I’ve seen this mentioned before but not sure if it’s on same device type, I don’t remember if there was an exact solution. Just for testing/workaround, I would do a save matching device to variable and use the variable in the push notification.