Presence sensor quirk

Lgkahn · November 11, 2015, 8:53pm

I and others have seen weird presence sensor issues. where the sensor will say

arrived…
then hours later say arrived again…

unfort. my doors and locks would unlock in the middle of the night when this happens.
To cut down on this I changed the routine to not fire if we are in night mode…

However looking at the code for the presence sensor it doesn’t even check on a state change what the previous state was.
I have added some code for that and an updated/configure routine to initialize it…
I am testing now but it should ignore the incoming message if the previous state is the same as the incoming one…
I will keep you informed on my progress.

I am supprised the device type doesn’t already do this/

Mr_Lucky · November 11, 2015, 11:30pm

I had this issue with ‘Minimum away time’ set to 1 minute, but not since setting it to 2.

Lgkahn · November 12, 2015, 3:47am

Mine is set to 10 minutes. It is occasionally saying I return again hours later so the timeout would not help

Lgkahn · November 12, 2015, 4:00am

As I side note it appears to be workingI well i will put a notification in so I can tell when it would have changed state.

Lgkahn · November 12, 2015, 8:01pm

seems to be working well so here is my device type for testing:

github.com

lgkahn/SmartThingsPublic/blob/27b3a51c59b11dac8a64211041b163c1c26dd0db/devicetypes/smartthings/lgk-arrival-sensor.src/lgk-arrival-sensor.groovy

/**
 *  Copyright 2015 SmartThings
 *
 *  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.
 *
 * lgk I keep getting false .. xxx has arrived. There is no reason for this ... driver should keep track of past state
 * and only signal arrived if they previously have left.
 * add past state to handle this.
 * also updated function to resync past with current state.
 *
 */
metadata {
	definition (name: "LGK Arrival Sensor", namespace: "smartthings", author: "SmartThings") {

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