Unless something has changed since this morning when I left my house, MyQ is still allowing SmartThings to open and close the door via API calls - functionality that should still work both on this app and the old one. If yours isn’t working, there may be something else going on blocking it. Do you happen to know if any errors are showing up in your logs?
Never used rule machine, so color thing can’t be that. Is there some github integration that must be setup?
Works great with your device. Who knows what happened with the other.
I already had a tilt sensor on this door so it was a breeze.
Thanks!
Ah gotcha! I misread your post at first saying it didn’t work for either. Glad this one works for you!
I’m seeing the same situation as before with blank last open info. Timestwmp shown in log after refresh says last activity date is null. Note the door was not opened yesterday (over 24 hours ago). This seems to only happen after a day or two of no activity on the door. Here are screenshots.
Ok, that confirms what I suspected. After some time the method I use to grab the last activity date from the tilt sensor stops returning anything. ST must throw that data away after a certain point. I think I can fix it by just not overriding the existing value if the new value is null. Can probably push an update later today.
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I pushed out a code update that should fix the blank timestamp bug. I realized the root issue is that I was only looking back 24 hours to find the latest sensor event. So if the door had been inactive for longer than that, no activity would be found. I have extended that window to 7 days, so as long as the door has changed in the last week, it will pull the timestamp from the sensor.
But even if you leave your door unchanged for longer than that, the code should now be smart enough to not override the existing value with a blank one.
If you’ve got any doors that are currently showing a blank value, you’ll need to open/close them once to refresh with a valid value, and after that, they should never get overridden with blank.
One of my garages is showing as open and tilt sensor also, but the garage is closed, refresh does nothing. Anything else I should try?
What if you refresh the tilt sensor? I would double check that the tilt is still communicating correctly.
I opened the garage with the native myq app then closed with Smartthings and that put it back on track
I bet the tilt sensor closed message was lost in the ether. If you have the same Device Handler as I do, there is no option to refresh/poll.
If the tilt sensor was also showing open incorrectly, there’s not much we can do about that. Either it physically didn’t register as closed or else SmartThings failed to receive the message from it. My guess is with @desertblade - that message just got lost and ST didn’t pick it up. I have actually seen this happen with one of my tilt sensors once before, but the good news is it’s extremely rare.
I am having the same issue with the tilt sensor, and the My Q Lite not updating the status of closed. And when I hit refresh nothing. I have the Ecolink Z-Wave Wireless Tilt Sensor, and I think it is part of the issue. I have read in other places that the switch they use is unreliable. I am going to replace it and try it again.
I have the ecolink and its reliable. The issue is it doesn’t check in so a missed command is not re-polled. Has not been an issue with me yet, but been thinking about setting up a Pollster job and see if I can it updated.
Correct me if I am wrong a Refresh in MyQ will just check the status of the Tilt and if that is wrong, it will still be wrong.
Yep, this MyQ integration is still dependent on that tilt sensor’s latest status being accurate. Maybe there’s a better tilt sensor device type out there that has polling enabled that you could set up pollster to keep it updated. I know mine have been reliable enough that it really wouldn’t be worth the trouble.
My eco has always been 100%. May need to run the zwave utility to ruins your mesh (network). Especially when most people setup their tilt at the kitchen table, then install in a location. 50 ft away, thus the mesh is a little off, at least that’s what I’very been told about zwave devices.
Will give that try thanks for the suggestion!
Minor update today for both SmartApp and Device Handler:
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Door device now has a new tile indicating which physical tilt sensor the door is associated with (helpful for troubleshooting).
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Log entries are much friendlier showing the normal door names instead of just the long jumbled ID’s.
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Did a test this morning with my Ecolink tilt. It works, but there is no logging in live logging. Going to be looking at the Device Handler and see if there is room for improvements.
After doing the update and repair on the Zwave network same result. I took the sensor off and found that the ball switch inside the unit is the issue it hangs some time not tripping the circuit. I may have to replace the unit to see if I receive reliable results!
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