My smartapp loses Motion sensor's events

Carlos_Narez · July 28, 2017, 3:44pm

Hi everyone, I spend time searching this issue without success, I would appreciate your help.

Devices:
Iris Motion Sensor and Cree light bulb

Simple use case:
If Motion is detected in some interval of time then Turn on light

Issue:
This smartapp works 90% of the times, but in some cases the handler is not launched, but when I see Recently tab for the motion sensor in ST App, the event is displayed. I tried to use Smart Lighting smartapp without success, same problem.

I don’t know if issue is my motion sensor, but if so, why has 100% of events displayed in ST App. It’s like the motion sensor works 100% but ST fail some cases sending the event to smartapps.

Code:

github.com

carnar/smartthings/blob/master/smartapps/TurnOnAtMotion.groovy

/**
 *  My First Smart App
 *
 *  Copyright 2017 Carlos Narez
 *
 *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except
 *  in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed
 *  on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License
 *  for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
 *
 */
definition(
    name: "Turn On at Motion",
    namespace: "Carnar",
    author: "Carlos Narez",
    description: "Turn lights on when start motion.",

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For the record:
These are event logs for motion sensor, smartapps and bulb light

MOTION SENSOR
In the last record sensor detected motion at 4:56:11 but smartapp didn’t turn on the bulb. This worked fine in next time after I broke the cycle turning on the bulb with a voice alexa command.

Some idea @bravenel? Sorry for tagging you but I have read your solutions in other posts, I would appreciate your comments.

arnb · July 28, 2017, 9:48pm

Just bumped into this today while working on my version of the First App. What I found is the Samsung motion sensor hardware device does not issue/trigger Inactive.

Update on July 29, 2017 15:08 EDT Today I’m receiving “inactive” from the hardware (sound of head banging into wall).

My smartapp loses Motion sensor's events

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