Get ready to make the switch!

Still 1 question. Can we read SSHM status variable from an app? If so, does anyone know the variable?

For reference, SHM status could be accessed using: location.currentValue(“alarmSystemStatus”)
This variable now reads as, “unconfigured”.

ST does not expose STHM state at this time to 3rd party apps

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The SHM value was undocumented. The STHM value is hidden for security reasons.

People are doing one of two things.

  1. if you happen to have a one to one correspondence between your location mode and your security mode, then you can just have an automation that changes the security mode as the location mode changes. this seems to be what a lot of staff have done.

  2. If you have added additional custom location modes, like “guest” or “dog walker,” that may not work. In that case, people are typically using a virtual switch as a proxy so they set the virtual switch and use the virtual switch coming on As a trigger for an automation that sets the security mode.

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I came home today, and most of my lights turned on after I activated a scene in newApp that had nothing to do with lights! And trying to piece together what happened from the crappy logs, with all the good logging deprecated from Classic and the IDE… fuhgettaboutit.

Classic poltergeist. Revenge of the Classic nerds.

Yeah. Why, remind me?

Oh yeah, I’m part of the group whose opinion is too small to count. Almost forgot.

Well, I like to be counted, so I am going to bother support now. Every little thing: Ticket.

EDIT: I received an auto-reply “Kindly note that our reply may be delayed due to a sudden volume increase.” There is joy in being counted.

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Totally forgot about all this…I’ve been using the new app for a bit as well as classic. Get the banner to migrate this location in classic. Do I actually need to “migrate” since I’m already using the new app??

See this is concerning because I used the app to migrate and I still get the emails. Well…I guess I won’t after today.

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AFAIK, only if you have routines and/or SHM running in the Classic App. If not, then you should be good to go.

Thanks - I recreated my automation in the new app so I guess I’m good.

Goodbye classic…sniff

@JDRoberts

It’s well into 10/15/20 (15/10/20) and it still works! O.O

did the kill switch fail?! LOLOLOLOLOL

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My morning sarcasm for today:

It was probably suppose to be triggered by a hidden Automation in the new app, and given the reliability of those lately, it probably failed or it will run when we least expect it to…

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still works! 1 of 2 things happened, either the kill switch failed or they had second thoughts.

Well, if you look at their recent end dates…

  • the august 17th date did not take effect until the 24th for the logs in IDE.
  • the sept. 8th cutoff for echo speaks and switch to new Alexa integration did not occur until later. ES started ending for some but others continued using it for weeks. The Alexa integration was extended to the 21st.
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It’s not too late, if you want to know when the plug is pulled, you can still install the Classic from Google Play, today lol

So much to lament about by loosing the app, the ability to see easily whats freaking switched on !!! Simple thing but it just worked

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Not being able to see what apps triggered a device and what apps a device is tied to, tripped me over…

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I was able to get most things going in the new app using the advice here, and by adding virtual switches for STHM. One thing I am still having trouble with is the old school keyfob presence sensors. It used to be that you could say, when X keyfob presence sensor has been gone for Y amount of time > do Z thing. They did implement this in the case of phones, but in the case of the old keyfobs you only get to choose, when X keyfob presence sensor leaves > do Z thing. It will be interesting to see what happens when you pair it with a condition on a phone sensor having been gone for a certain amount of time. My guess is it’s gonna be wonky. I think the only solution at this point would be to use CoRE?

One other thing that may or may not be an issue is that some of the scenes that were created by the migration fail when they are run. It appears that it doesn’t like the ones that modify the status of a large number of devices… But I can’t figure out where they’re failing. They appear to at least mostly function.

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I’m still running the May release of the classic app. everything is still working and no migration banner in the way!

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So, if I am getting the e-mail AND I already went through the app migration module, what does that mean? I kinda doubt they are targeted as I did that over a month ago and I am still deleting those e-mails regularly. Hopefully they stop now that they are closing out the old app.

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Has anyone deleted the classic app yet? Dont want to be the first incase somehow it bricks the new app!