Execute(call) a Handler

Developer Programs Writing SmartApps
1

I seem to have a hard time finding my questions searching the documintation and community . So here is another one.

After a runIn() finishes I’m changing the value of an atomicState then i need to run a different handler. What needs to go in front of it so it will be called?

if(tmode == "heat" && tstate == "idle" && atomicState.heatrunning == true)
  {
  runIn(120, heatstoppedHandler)
  log.debug "Heat Stop timer started"
  }

def heatstoppedHandler() {
atomicState.heatrunning = false
??? (mainControlHandler)

I’m not making an endless loop I just need the handler to run through once more.

2

I might be misunderstanding your question, but if you’re just trying to call a method to execute immediately, you should just need to call it.

mainControlHandler()
3

Thanks that did it. When it call the handler it gave this debug in the log

2:36:19 PM: debug mainControlHandler called: null

guessing that is normal?

4

That’s a debug line generated by your code. Is there a line in mainControlHandler that looks something like this?

log.debug "mainControlHandler called: ${x}"

The only potentially troublesome thing is that it’s showing null for whatever x is. But maybe that’s ok. Depends on what you’re doing.

5

Yep makes sense now. Normal it doesn’t say null but guessing that is because it normally starts because it was subscribe() and that info is from that.