What I have seen so far are event basis (e.g user arrived or left).
End of the line I want to modify a smart routine to only trigger if the presence sensor is active.
Can I query the current status on the fly?
I believe Core can do this, ask in their peer assistance thread and the experts there will know for sure.
CoRE (now WebCore) is a very powerful community – created rules engine for SmartThings. It allows you to set up stacked conditionals like “If A then B but only while C and not if D.”
Setting it up can be quite complex, but there are many community members who will be glad to help you.
For example, here is a piston that one member created to notify him if the dog had already been fed twice that day and he picked up the dog bowl for a third time. He needed this because he has a large family and people didn’t always remember whose turn it was to feed the dog.
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