Thank you. I tried that, however it is not working properly because it is turning off the lights too quickly (not waiting 5 minutes). For instance I walked past all motions, then hung out (still) near motion 1 where the others couldn’t see me. Before the 5 minutes it turned off. I have no other rules that would have turned this off.
Perhaps I did not set it up right? Here is what I have:
Piston type: Basic
IF
Each of motion 1, motion 2, or motion 3 is inactive
THEN
Using location…
Wait 5 minutes
TCP Ccancel on piston state change
Using Hallway Lights…
Turn off
Did I set this up right? If so, why would it not be working right? Thanks!
Ah, thank you! Its working now exactly like I wanted. Its a creative way to address the issue. I had read elsewhere where others had suggested using global variables and timers and some much more unnecessarily complicated compared to your elegant solution.
I’m just wondering though - is there any type of enhancement that could be made to CoRE (or to WebCoRE if CoRE is no longer getting enhancements?) that would make settings up rules like this easier and more intuitive for newbs? Seems like it would be easier if there was a way to write a straight-forward rule that just said “if all of motion 1, motion 2, motion 3 is inactive for 5 minutes then turn off lights”. Why can that not be done like that, and is there an enhancement to CoRE that would enable that? Thanks!
Hi everybody, after reading hundreds to topics, it is not clear to me how can I run a CoRE piston from a Google Home voice command. I have tried to use some apps that are supposed to facilitate this process, but no luck.
Basic steps will be appreciated. Thanks a lot!
They are two completely independent animals.
You can have a mixture of the both if you wish.
What most people are doing is gradually migrating their pistons over from CoRE to webCoRE.
WebCoRE is still in beta but is pretty stable.
I have found that webCoRE is easier to use as you can replicate existing pistons and just change the devices.
You can also import pistons from other people, backup your pistons and also recover them should you delete them by mistake.
Have a look and I’m sure you will start to convert.
I have a piston to control my space heater in the basement that runs properly when I hit simulate, but it doesn’t seem to update itself as the variables change. What Am I missing?
Just got CoRE running and it does essentially what I couldn’t do before (dim a light from 100-0%.) What I tried to add is a slow fade (first tried 30 seconds and then 20 seconds) but it pretty much goes from whatever the light was set to to the setting I asked CoRe to set it to. I am only using CoRe, not WebCoRe, so I don’t know if that makes a difference.
This may be simple but can’t seem to figure it out with what I understand of Pistons.
I have a fountain that I turn off and one at certain times say at 9AM in the morning and then off at 11:00pm at night. But sometimes it doesnt turn off, don’t know why. So I was trying to set up a piston (or something else if you say so) to check the time then the fountain and turn if off as necessary. For example, if it is 11:01pm and the fountain is still on, then turn it off. But how to I keep doing this until it is actually off? What I have does it one time and if the fountain is still on then nothing else happens. I want it to keep checking the fountain until it is OFF otherwise keep trying to turn it off.
Essentially this piston turns my furnace off if something left open for five or more minutes by setting the temp super low.
I know there’s probably a million ways to do this. Using variables, and maybe even condensing these pistons in to one and not using a virtual switch. I’m open to suggestions.
Side note: for some reason, resume schedule for the thermostat does not work unless you increase the setpoint first. It’s a known issue that sT has been working on.
I would just set the TCP to Cancel on Piston State Change instead of Condition. Condition will monitor each door so that is where the error might be happening.
Is the problem in the switch not turning on/off or in the therm?
I can get to my Core Dashboard, but when I try to load the actual Core SmartApp in the Smartthings App on my phone it fails and shows the following, which looks like some generic ST failure message. Anyone know what to do from there?
I just loaded webcore and was going to start building the logic in webcore, thankfully I can still get to the dashboard and see most of my logic, but want to get to the app as well.
