How can i schedule a method with parameters?

[tgauchat (ActionTiles.com co-founder Terry @ActionTiles; GitHub: @cosmicpuppy)]

I found an official SmartThings response which seems to confirm parameters cannot be used; only a string with the name of the method. Though you are not creating a new closure, I think that the same limitation of carrying the parameter values to that new “invocation” of the SmartApp is applicable here.

Pass a closure to runIn

The runIn method is scheduling things behind the scenes, our scheduling of smart apps all just take a method name to be called at the scheduled time. That means when this executes it is a new “run” of the smart app. For a closure to be executed like you are showing we would need to keep a reference to that closure which depending on how long that runIn is for means holding way too many references in memory and that the execution would need to happen inside the same JVM which isn’t as resilient as being able to make a new call to a smart app method.

But I’ve thought of another possible, but perhaps lousy, solution:

• Move the “schedule” effect inside the body of the method by using the “delay:” option to the Devices’s setCoolSetpoint Command?

e.g., setCoolSetpoint( temp, delay: < longtime_milliseconds calculated until the desired schedule time > )

NB: This is still a guess at this time. Old posts said that delay was limited to under 60 seconds, but newer posts said that restriction was removed. Still seems too awkward; but sharing my thoughts for now.

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So…

Take a look at this example for how a complex scheduling of Thermostat Temperature setting was handled:

https://github.com/constjs/SmartThings-Apps/blob/5afe2cf3fd010305e4d84cd8bac3ef9bf3fb9242/Programmable_thermo.app.groovy