Event when bulb is plugged in

[shadowjig (John)]

I’m looking to act on an event (in a SmartApp) that is fired when a zigbee bulb is plugged in. I ran a test in Webcore to see if it was possible and the event does fire. But which event do I need to subscribe to in order to accomplish what I want? Is it simple “switch.on”?

[JDRoberts]

Have you had a chance to look at the “canary bulb” Power outage management smart app? It uses an individual zigbee bulb coming on power as an indicator that power has been restored, so it should have what you want.

Read the thread about it, however, because the author found out that different brands of bulbs had different behavior in this circumstance, and not all report a power restored condition.

[OBSOLETE] SmartBulb Power Outage handler

I was tired of coming home or waking up to find all my smart bulbs turned on due to a power outage. This app was inspired by the concept of a “Canary” bulb from @JDRoberts ( see Power Outage and Zigbee Bulbs) Basically you set up a smart bulb that you never use. If this bulb is on, then the app turns it off and any bulbs that were off before the power outage occurred. There is a lot of discussion on other posts about whether you should be changing the states of bulbs because you don’t know if anyone intended to change the states of the light while the power was out or after the power came back on and before the ST hub reconnects to the internet. This option works for my usage, hopefully it works for yours. The code: definition( name: "Smarter Bulbs", namespace: "nsweet68", author…