Polling clarification

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I can’t seem to find a good answer and ST support won’t answer me except to say they don’t help with custom apps. Arg!

I’ve created a device with Polling capability and created the poll() method.
How often is it supposed to be called? Or is it supposed to be called automatically at all?

I don’t need any sort of accuracy in calling it, just at least twice an hour is good enough. I was thinking of setting up my device/smartapp to get push notifications anyway instead of polling. I just wanted to get this bit of info clarified if possible.

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It was supposed to be called roughly every 10 minutes, but it never worked reliably and I guess they killed this feature some time ago. That’s the reason why the Pollster was created.

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So I’m better off just ditching it and doing a push from the cloud service or setup my own schedule then?

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All SmartThings scheduling APIs have always been flakey, but for the past several month they’ve become practically useless. You’ll be much better off using IFTTT for scheduled tasks.

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Wow, thank you. I was trying to avoid IFTTT because that was getting flakey for me. I guess I’ll be re-writing a good chunk of this then.

Thanks!

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Yep. Pollster used to run for weeks, even month without a hitch. Now it has to be restarted several times a day. People come up with all kinds of crazy ideas like using random events like motion detection or temperature changes to run their schedules. :slightly_smiling:

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This is sounding like I can’t even rely on doing a runIn(1day, …?

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