Problems with using goodbye more than once a day

[Techgeek (Wes Young)]

I am pretty new to ST, loving it so far but having issues with getting my routines running smoothly. I have goodbye and I’m back running perfectly, but if my wife.comes home at lunch I’m back runs but when she leaves goodbye doesn’t run again, and when she gets back I’m back doesn’t run again. I’m guessing I may need a goodbye 2 and I’m back 2 or something but hope someone can tell me if I’m missing something simpler. Thanks for any help community

[SBDOBRESCU (Bobby)]

It should work, have you checked if the presence is not acting up? I assume you trigger goodbye when everyone leaves…

[xcguy (Bruce)]

@Techgeek

I am pretty new to ST, loving it so far but having issues with getting my routines running smoothly. I have goodbye and I’m back running perfectly, but if my wife.comes home at lunch I’m back runs but when she leaves goodbye doesn’t run again, and when she gets back I’m back doesn’t run again.

Check the activity log on the app, see if it said it at least executed the routine. Sometimes ST will say it executed the routine, but then there is no summary of actions. This scenario is being reported in another thread…

New Trouble With Modes & Routines (related to setlevel for dimmers/thermostats?)

I have my system set up to switch modes when I’m away and fire off the routines based on my presence. It used to work pretty well with the old app and hub. Lately when I come home: My presence is not updated until I go into the app and manually refresh Once I refresh and the mode changes to Home, none of my motion sensors turn on the lights. They are seeing motion but are not triggering the lights to come on. I first have to turn all the lights in a room off and then the motion sensor seems to work. It seems like the motion sensors are not really waking up quickly enough. Most of the time I have to stand in front of them and wave my hands to get them to respond. I have an Aeon Multi, a Fibaro motion 2 ST 1st gen motion and 3 Monoprice motion sensors. Any ideas on why this stuff is…

[JDRoberts]

Could be you’re missing one mode change and then you run into the following problems: (this is a clickable link)

FAQ: Routine Only Seems to Work for First Person Who Comes Home

Updated 12 November 2015 At some point, there was a change and now routines WILL run even if the house is in the mode you’re going to change into. That’s good, it’s just confusing because it’s unclear if this is now always true or only sometimes. Until there’s some official documentation, I’ll leave the rest of this in place as it’s one of those “can’t hurt, might help” things. Possibly this is a mode issue. It did exist as a problem with v one, but only with hello home actions, not with shortcut groups. It’s pretty simple once you understand what’s going on, it’s just there’s nothing anywhere that tells you that this is what’s going to happen with routines. OK if you have a routine that changes the mode, then nothing in that routine will run if the house is already in that mode. That’…

Basically just have to walk through your Mode changes and make sure you never trying to run routine when you’re already in that mode.

So first thing in the morning what mode is your house in? Maybe home?

You leave the house, what changes it to away?

Your wife comes home at lunch, if the house was in Away, does it change back to home again when she arrives? If not, and it still away, then the next goodbye routine will not run if it is also supposed to change it to away.

This might not have anything to do with what you’re seeing, but it’s a very common issue so it’s worth looking at.