Phantom physical events

[SBDOBRESCU (Bobby)]

It’s the platform! Here is the audit discovery done by the guy who wrote Double Duty

UPDATED 10/7/2015 -- "Double Duty" - Use redundant switch presses to control other lights. You paid a lot for those switches, make them work Double Duty!

I did some more extensive debugging tonight. I logged every property of every event that gets reported to Double Duty and, sure enough, there are “phantom” events that get sent from certain devices that are completely indistinguishable from the real event. They do get reported as a separate event though, so I can’t even do something like log the event ID and ignore duplicates It’s really a shame because I feel like this is such a simple but handy application. I am still using it at my house, but my recommendation is that you use only either on or off presses on a particular master switch, not both. At least if you leave one of the two “dead” then you have ways to offset these events. For example, my track lights “on” redundant press toggles a corner lamp. If I turn the tr…