Guys, please use this thread to share your poltergeist light issues whereby there is mysterious light turn ons and offs. Just a request to report genuine issues and minus the sarcasm and attacks. :slight_smile: And of course, please do put in a ticket for genuine issues.

[image] SBDOBRESCU: Things are not working as they should within couple of hours after reboot. Timing or lighting issues?

Timing within routines has never been an issue for me. My sunset/sunrise has worked consistently 99% of the time. As rule, I set my routines based on events and not timers. I had one running at 3pm that didn’t fire, so I converted it into an event based trigger. Now timing withing lighting applicati…

Totally stumped at your situation. All my regular lights are based on routines… All hues if that helps. And I use smart lighting for all the temporarily lighting like closet and basement (mix of Cree, Ge and lux) but they don’t have minute based turn offs but based on contact close. And they have be…

I totally freaked out when my lock unlocked all by itself this morning! I have a gate bell at the street plus the Kuna at the front door so I should always get at least two notifications before someone physically gets to the lock. Even if SmartThings misses the gate, Kuna should catch someone at th…

Totally agree. This is too too weird. I don’t remember so many people getting affected on such a large scale since I joined ST.

Just random stuff. It seems like some of my apps got stuck on previous mode, much like JD, lights that should turn on at night, turned on in the middle of the day. Sure enought the current state in ide was showing night. I could have tried to troubleshoot, but I was at work when wife called, so I ha…

Why does it always happen during Halloween? Isn’t this from last year? [image] Getting frustrated with the Outages again Apps & Clients Whats with all the outages the past week??? Lights aren’t turning off at night, My kids humidifier didn’t shutoff on schedule, I am get…

[image] smart: Why does it always happen during Halloween? Isn’t this from last year? Ghosts are real… But in all seriousness I am working on tracking this stuff down. Keep the info coming.

@slagle our own homebred ghost hunter! Help us all!

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smart (Ron S) October 27, 2015, 10:43pm 17

Why does it always happen during Halloween? Isn’t this from last year?

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