Feature Request: Routines - need confirmation that actions successfully occurred

[RBoy (www.rboyapps.com - Making SmartThings Easy!)]

@RottenMutt

It would make sense that smartthings would check these triggers did successfully occur.

It would but the way ST is currently setup it doesn’t verify, it just executes and assumed that things happened. Some times things timeout or don’t happen for a variety of reasons (mesh issues, timing, platform, connectivity etc).

If you have access to RBoy Apps, check out this Routine Backup and Verification SmartApp which does just that, verifies that things ran as expected, notifies you if it didn’t and even completes the missing actions for you:

[CLASSIC] Routines Backup - Verify/double check your routine execution, notify and take actions

Introducing Routines Backup On request from users: This solution is designed to verify that SmartThings Routines ran their execution to completion. Routines can timeout, actions aren’t completed due to mesh issues or a variety of other issues. This acts likes a backup for your Routines, it detects when a Routine is run, verifies that the configured actions were completed and if not, it also, provides an option to complete those actions. You can verify the state of door, windows, switches, locks, valves, shades, garage doors, thermostats, hub modes, SHM states etc, notify you if they aren’t in the desired state and even update their state if required. You can even re-run the same routine or another routine as a backup action. It also provides you with the option to delay verifying the r…