I need help creating a piston that Sends out a SMS notification every 15 mins while the garage door is still open. Can somebody point me in the right direction?
Can anyone figure out why this isnt working?
The Piston fires when āgoodbyeā is performed but the ākitchen door is openā is what it isnāt recognising??
What capability did you choose for the Kitchen?
Ive got a Latching Piston setup , coupled with a SmartThings motion sensor , and 4 Hue Colour spots , and a hue lightstrip plus.
All works technically as expected , but im getting serious delays with the lights coming on , almost a second between each light coming on , and sometimes one bulb will fail to fire at all , or come on 3/4 seconds later. Im not sure how to troubleshoot as the Hue Dimmer , and triggering from Hue apps they all come on pretty much at exactly the same time.
ALso , as by default they come on to the level set at whatever the last colour was used ( and that could be some outlandish colour ) im triggering a set colour temp , but that also has the delay as it works around the bulbs setting the temp.
so
b1 onā¦1sā¦b2 onā¦1sā¦b3 onā¦1sā¦b4 onā¦1sā¦b1 set kā¦1sā¦b2 set kā¦1sā¦b3 set kā¦1sā¦b4 set k
Looks horrible
Do you guys ever get lights that stick on? When I have a virtual switch turn on some times lights get stuck on. Or turn off and on real quickly. Like today I wake up and see my closet light stuck on and my motion sensor not picking up new motion, so I have to press ārebuild all pistons.ā
Any chance youād be willing to give me some guidance with limiting an action to Once-Per-Period-Of-Time?
I created a separate thread elsewhere about this last fall, and somebody suggested using CoRE. At that time, I wasnāt doing much with CoRE yet. Now that I am, I tried a few things with Variables, but I clearly donāt understand Variables lol
Any assistance would be appreciated.
Basically, I have something thatās triggered by either a door opening or motion, and I want to make sure it only happens once in any given 10 minute period. i.e. if it happens NOW, I donāt want it to respond to the same triggers again until 10 minutes has gone by.
EDIT: In the meantime, Iām using the ON/OFF state of a virtual switch instead, but Iād like to do this with Variables within CoRE if possible.
What do you mean by capability?
When you selected Kitchen device, did you pick it from Contacts or Sensors? Iām not sure it makes a difference but worth trying.
Only makes a difference if not in expert mode. If expert mode is enabled then all capabilities will available.
Does anybody have an idea on why this does not work? It sends the SMS message once while the garage door is still open. It will not continue to send it every so many minutes.
tried remaking the piston using a contact instead of a sensor and now working, thank you
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This is what I do. For my garage door. Or any other contact sensor for that matter. If itās been open for more than five minutes, it sends me a message. Only once.
Need some help with my pistons. I have pistons that fire when motion is detected to turn on lights during certain times of the day. The screenshots below show my current config for one of them. I need help with one piece of logic. Right now, the light turn on when motion happens and set a local boolean variable called āautoā¦ā on each piston that updates when motion causes the piston to fire. The problem is this: I want to be able to overide the piston when manually using the switch. E.g. Lights turn on automatically, when leaving the room I hit the switch and the lights stay off. Right now, the motion sensors read āmotion activeā as I leave the room, thus having to wait the entire set period for them to turn off automatically. Any ideas on how I can resolve this? I was considering introducing another piston that changes the āautoā¦ā variable (I would make the local variable global) when the switch is manually used but I canāt seem to find a variable that describes āmanuallyā setting a switch.
Thanks in advance for the help!
If core is not working and trying to get into the app gives me a spinning wheel of death but doesnt take me into the app am i screwed?
Having an issue opening two different PISTON:
Most everything in CoRE is working without issue. I hadnāt even noticed a problem. But today I went into one of the pistons to edit it to do something slightly different, but while opening it, I got an error: āYou are not Authorized to Perform the Requested Actionā and the only thing that shows up is the big red REMOVE button.
When going to the dashboard, I can see runtime statistics for the piston, but canāt see the actual piston when clicking on it, just the spinning gear.
When enabling logs for it and watching the IDE, I get an error when I try to open the Piston from CoRE:
12:50:43 PM: error java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot get property ācountā on null object @ line 9387
Line 9387 of CoRE is this: ādef subDevices = capability.count && attr && (attr.name == capability.attribute) ? buildNameList(condition.sdev, āorā) + " " : āāā but unfortunately, I have no idea what to do with this information.
Thanks in advance
I canāt even get into my core setup via smart apps. Are others having trouble with core ? None of them are firing
Same here and havent been for at least a few days
not really sure how to fix it. have reset smarttings. really donāt want to set it all up again 
Latest version of CoRE?
thatāll do it! thanks - upgraded and can access core. hopefully the pistons are still working.